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Technical Track: Ontologies and
Taxonomies
Track Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky,
Cogitech
Ontology
Analysis and Design for Topic Map Applications
Speaker: Ann
Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS; KnoW Steering Group
Description: This presentation will give you an analysis
and design method to design ontologies for representation in topic
maps, based on concepts and methods already proved in pilot projects
across academic and industry R&D.;
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Accounting for Social Objects
Speaker: David
Koepsell, Ontologist, Bowstreet, Inc.
Description: In this session, attendees will explore the
hallmarks of successful ontologies and will examine a method for
accounting for social objects in consumer ontologies. We will
also discuss how to predict ontologies' performance in search
engines and directories and test them as they are developed.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Quality
Taxonomies
Speaker: Jim
Nisbet, Senior Vice President of Technology, Semio Corporation
Description: Learn what a taxonomy is and how to develop
a quality taxonomy. This presentation highlights methods to ensure
quality taxonomies using quality metrics to deal with adverse
factors such as update frequency, the meeting of multiple user
needs, and the growth of the information mass.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Taxonomies and Indexing: A Technical Strategy
Speaker: Diane
Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Online Computer
Library Center
Description: This presentation will provide an overview
of principles, standards, and methods for organizing information
using knowledge organization (KO) tools such as thesauri, classification
schemes, and other taxonomic structures. The costs and benefits
of using free text, controlled vocabularies and classificatory
structures will be addressed. References to KO resources will
be provided.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Technical Track: Core Technologies
Track Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky,
President, CogiTech Inc.
Knowledge
Management at the Datum Level
Speaker: Eric
Freese, Director of Professional Services, ISOGEN International
Description: This talk will cover how knowledge management
systems can be extended using the grove paradigm to allow for
management and data access below the file level. Data types other
than XML can be accessed allowing data reuse between data types
and extending the value of legacy systems.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
The
Van: The Power of Cocoon for Web-Enabled Knowledge Sharing
Speaker: Marcus
Goncalves, Chief Knowledge Officer, Virtual Access Networks,
Inc.
Description: This presentation will discuss how the VAN will
provide a set of integration-level application semantics, the Internet
content extractor (ICE), which as a core technology will allow for
a series of connectivity ports (known as ICE crystals) to a multitude
of applications. Put in another way, the VAN will create a common
way for data to be extracted, exchanged, and directed cross platform
and among disparate devices, wired or wireless.
Presentation Materials: Slides
Developing
a Topic Map Programming Model
Speaker: Kal
Ahmed, Principal Consultant and Lars Marius Garshol, Development
Manager, Ontopia
Description: Topic maps provide a standard means for the
representation of structured information. The standard currently
defines only the interchange of topic maps using an SGML or XML-based
syntax. For application developers, however, what is required
is a standardized means of creating, manipulating and serializing
topic maps. This presentation will explore some different approaches
to providing interfaces for these purposes and proposes a number
of different solutions.
Presentation Materials: HTML
Slides
TMQL
(Topic Map Query Language)
Speaker: Ann
Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS & Dr.
H. Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager, empolis Content
Management GmbH
Description: Topic maps need to be able to deliver
their characteristic information handling
functionality in a modern distributed system context; to fulfil
this vision, Topic Map tools need a deeper basis for interoperability
than the interchange syntaxes published so far. TMQL has been
named (in advance of its formal existence!) by analogy with
SQL, and is intended to provide a similar kind of standardized
functional interface to a topic map. This presentation will
give a brief review of the status of the TMQL project (following
the meetings immediately preceding the conference), and will
include information on how to access and comment on the work
in progress.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Technical
Track: Core Technologies
Track Chair: Michel Biezunski,
InfoLoom, Inc.
DAML: The DARPA Agent Markup Language
Speaker: Dan
Connolly, XML Activity Leader, World Wide Web Consortium
Description: The Web contains huge amounts of
information coded using HTML. While HTML allows us to
visualize the information on the web, it doesn't provide
much capability to describe the information in ways
that facilitate theuse of software programs to find
or interpret it. XML allows information to be more accurately
described using tags and to add metadata. However, XML
has a limited capability to describe the relationships
with respect to objects. Ontologies provide a powerful
alternative for describing objects and their relationshipsto
other objects. DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language) language
is being developed as an extension toXML and the to
create web languages to make morecontent readable and
processable by machines. This presentation will provide
an introduction DAML, it's current status and relationship
with RDF (Resource Description Framework).
Presentation Materials: https://www.w3.org/2001/Talks/0103daml-kt/
Building,
Sharing, and Merging Ontologies (New title :
A Processing Model for Topic Maps)
Speaker: John
Sowa, Independant Consultant (Replaced by Steven
R. Newcomb, Founder, CoolHeads Consulting)
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Grounding
Knowledge Technology: Neuroscience and Topic Maps
Speaker: Paul
S. Prueitt, Founder, BCNGroup and OntologyStream
Description: The tools required to accommodate the rapidly
expanding demand for tracking, validating, and utilizing vast
stores of communications are profoundly complex. This presentation
will outline a foundation for grounding knowledge technology in
neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience and stratified complexity
theory. Using this foundation the speaker expects to offer an
objective evaluation of new types of knowledge technologies.
Presentation Materials: MS Word
Paper
Bringing Knowledge Technologies to the Classroom
Speaker: Jack
Park, Senior Scientist, Advanced Products and Strategies,
VerticalNet Solutions Description: The Semantic Web initiative
offers us an opportunity to examine applications of web technologies
in the light of many diverse domains, two of which are e-commerce
and education. This presentation will examine ways in which the
collaborative and ontology-based nature of e-commerce solutions
can be combinied with new technologies that support constructivist
epistemologies to further enhance the many ways in which the Semantic
Web will benefit education. It will explore ways in which the
new XTM Topic Map standard can be combined with Issue-based Information
Systems (IBIS) and other features of the Semantic Web to provide
opportunities for the development of critical thinking skills
to classrooms everywhere. It will further outline an approach
to enabling classrooms to provide such learning experiences in
a world-wide collaborative fashion, enabling learners to become
world-class thinkers.
Presentation Materials: PDF Slides
Technical Track: Late Breaking News
Track Chair: Ann Wrightson, Ontopia
Preserving
Process: Hyperlink-Based Workflow Representation
Speaker: W.
Eliot Kimber, Lead Brain, DataChannel, Inc.
Description:
Explores the
effectiveness of representing implementation-independent work
and process flows as systems of hyperlinks that define the possible
state transitions for managed objects. Identifies a set of functional
requirements that a link-based workflow approach must satisfy
and identifies alternative implementation approaches, especially
in the context of generalized content and information management
systems.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides / Power
Point Slides / User
Case Documents
The
Semantic Network of IKM-I3
Speaker: Ronald
Poell, Consultant Knowledge Management, Netherlands Organization
for Applied Scientific Research
Description: IKM-I3 (Information & Knowledge Management -
Intelligent Information Infrastructure) is a TNO program that
started in 2001. Within this program a semantic network, based
on the concepts behind Notion System, is developed. The multilingual
system manages distributed data and is not domain specific. Information
can be registered at various levels of detail. There are metadata
available for automatic maintenance, filtering etceteras. Exploitation-
and inference logic are an integrated part of the network. The
Semantic Network will enable the enhancement of existing techniques
(content analyses, NLP, and others) that allow automatic extension
of the network. It will also allow new ways of searching and navigating
and will promote new presentation techniques (probably 3D or 4D)
using context sensitive delivery of information. Agents shall
deploy automatic information maintenance activities (relevance,
validity). Probabilistic answers can be given to some questions,
other questions will receive clear answers. The resulting Semantic
Network will be the collaborative work of all users, agents and
systems connected to it. In the near future, when the nodes themselves
will become "information bearing agents", the Semantic Network
will be enhanced with even more powerful features (internal and
external evaluations of quality and relevance). Next, when the
various devices, up till that moment only connected TO the Net,
will be integrated IN the Semantic Network, new openings will
be possible through the use of dynamic situational information.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Technical Track: Knowledge Visualization
Track
Chair: Ann Wrightson, Ontopia
Intelligent
Graphics Using Simultaneous RDF and XTM Metadata
Speaker: David
Dodds, Senior Software Engineer, iKnowMed
Description: This session will describe why intelligent
graphics systems must employ knowledge not just clever algorithms
to step up to the next level of functionality. Self knowledge,
content knowledge is needed, and the ability to agilely do inference,
to step beyond the explicit content border.
Presentation Materials: Text
Paper 1 and Text Paper 2
Topic Maps Metrics and Visualization
Speaker: Benedicte
Le Grand, PhD Student, Laboratoire d Informatique de Paris
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Description: This in depth analysis of topic maps will
make it possible through the use of metrics. These measures allow
us to characterize a topic map by defining its "profile". Topics
and associations may be clustered according
to their similarity, thus providing different scales for the topic
map's representation.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
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