- From: Wilson, MD (Michael) <M.D.Wilson@rl.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:07:45 +0100
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, "'public-esw@w3.org'" <public-esw@w3.org>, "'seweb-list@cs.vu.nl'" <seweb-list@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: "Prime, MJ (Martin) " <M.J.Prime@rl.ac.uk>
Apologies for mis-posting or cross-posting if you deem this inappropriate.
This call is limited to those working in:
Austria, UK, Italy, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Greece, Germany, France,
Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ireland and Finland.
700-800 word articles for general scientific reader consumption on
interesting work towards
the Semantic Web by Wednesday 21 August 2002.
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Call for contributions to ERCIM News No. 51 (October 2002)
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DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Wednesday 21 August 2002
The sections of EN51 are :
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* Joint ERCIM Actions
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* The European Scene
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* SPECIAL THEME: Semantic web
Coordinated by Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA)
The world wide web today enables people to access documents and
services on the Internet. It requires human intelligence for
understanding and using pages written in natural and graphic
languages. The size of this web amounts to its success but prohibits
extensive human management.
The idea of a semantic web aims at overcoming this problem. The
semantic web augments the current web with formalised knowledge and
data that can be processed by computers. Some services will mix human
readable and structured data so both humans and computers can use
them. Others will support only formalised knowledge and will only be
used by machines. Research activities for building the semantic web
are now very active and are central to the "knowledge technologies"
area of the European Union's 6 framework programme.
There are currently many proposal of languages, protocols and
applications for being used in the semantic web. One of the
challenges of the current developments is the design of a framework
in which many understanding of this formalised knowledge can
interplay, because the full benefit of the semantic web can only be
attained when computers relate resources from various sources.
Contributions are welcome describing ongoing or accomplished research
related to the semantic web at your institution. This includes
notably, but not exclusively:
- languages for the semantic web;
- reasoning with and manipulating semantic web knowledge;
- semantic web infrastructure and protocols;
- models of trust, proof and rewards for the semantic web;
- distributed ontology life-cycle support;
- knowledge capture (from resources or people) for the semantic web;
- migration and adoption models;
- legal and social issues of the semantic web;
- foundational ontologies and general-purpose resources;
- applications of the semantic web;
- semantic web services.
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* R &D and Technology Transfer
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* Events
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* In Brief
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Guidelines for ERCIM News articles
Style: ERCIM News is read by a large variety of people. Keeping this
in mind the article should be descriptive (emphasize more the 'what'
than the 'how') without too much technical detail together with an
illustration, if possible.
Length : Try to keep the article short, i.e. 700-800 words.
Format : Submissions preferably in ASCII text or MS Word
Structure of the article :
The emphasis in ERCIM News is on 'news'. This should be reflected in
both Title and Lead ('teaser'). For example, a title like: 'Semantic
Web research at the .. institute' should be avoided, and replaced by
something drawing attention to a new development. Also: no review
articles!
* a teaser:
a few words about the project/topic. Printed in bold face, this part
is intended to raise interest. (keep it short)
* details describing :
what the project/product is
who is involved
where it takes place
why the research is being done
when it was started/completed the aim of the project
the techniques employed
the orientation of the project
future activities
other institutes involved in this project
co-operation with other ERCIM members in this field
* useful Link(s)
* a contact address with:
- full name of the author
- phone number
- e-mail address
Additional items:
* an illustration (photos, graphics), for example of the product,
applications mentioned in the article, people working on the project,
etc. (avoid as much as possible flow charts and screen dumps).
Illustrations must be accompanied by a caption.
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Contributions will be distributed to national editors if sent to:
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