Reminder: Mark Musen on Mar.4 in DKG/SWSA talk series

Dear all,

Here is a quick reminder that, today at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST, we will
have Mark Musen's talk in our online talk series.

   "Semantic Technology in Science: Enhancing Data
    Stewardship in Support of New Discovery"

For more information, see my earlier email below.

Best,
Olaf


On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 07:59 +0100, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am happy to announce the next talk in the online talk series [1] of
> the COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) [2], in
> collaboration with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) [3].
> 
> On March 4 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST, Mark Musen (Stanford University)
> will talk about:
> 
>   "Semantic Technology in Science: Enhancing Data Stewardship
>    in Support of New Discovery"
> 
> Abstract:
> Much of the Semantic Web research community emerged from the cadre of
> investigators who were studying the engineering of knowledge-based
> systems in the 1990s.  Development of such systems required intense
> interactions between modelers and subject-matter experts to build
> symbolic representations of discipline-specific knowledge.  Such
> knowledge-engineering activities may be making a comeback, as funders
> and regulators require scientists of all kinds to share their
> experimental datasets online, in a manner that makes the data
> findable,
> accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).  At the core of data
> FAIRness is the idea that the metadata that describe experimental
> datasets must adhere to the standards used by the relevant scientific
> communities, aiding dataset search and integration.  Typically, those
> metadata standards are not well specified, which impedes the ability
> of
> researchers to locate existing datasets and to perform secondary
> analysis in the hope of making new discoveries.  This situation is
> driving a new kind of knowledge engineering—one to formalize the
> preferences of various scientific communities regarding the way their
> experiments should be described.  The CEDAR Workbench, a suite of
> tools
> that builds on other semantic technologies that we have developed at
> Stanford University, demonstrates how the elicitation and formal
> representation of community standards for experimental metadata both
> enhances access to and reuse of scientific datasets and, by
> extension,
> can lead to better science.
> 
> Speaker:
> Dr. Musen is the Stanford Medicine Professor of Biomedical
> Informatics
> Research at Stanford University.  He conducts research related to
> open
> science, intelligent systems, computational ontologies, and
> biomedical
> decision support.  His group developed Protégé, the world's most
> widely
> used technology for building and managing terminologies and
> ontologies.
> He served as principal investigator of the National Center for
> Biomedical Ontology, one of the original National Centers for
> Biomedical Computing created by the U.S. National Institutes of
> Health,
> leading to the BioPortal ontology repository.  He directs the Center
> for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR), founded under the
> NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative.  CEDAR develops semantic
> technology to ease the authoring and management of experimental
> metadata.  
> Dr. Musen was the recipient of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for
> Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics
> Association in 2006.  He has been elected to the American College of
> Medical Informatics, the International Academy of Health Sciences
> Informatics, and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.
> 
> 
> The talk will be live streamed at our YouTube channel:
> https://www.youtube.com/@costdkg4356/streams

> 
> 
> In addition to Mark's talk, mark your calendars already for the
> following upcoming talk in the talk series.
> 
> * Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> "Does the Knowledge Graphs community care about semantics?"
> April 17 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Olaf
> 
> [1] https://cost-dkg.eu/talks

> [2] https://cost-dkg.eu/

> [3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

>

Received on Monday, 4 March 2024 11:47:34 UTC