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InfoLoom, Inc.
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Tuesday,
March 6
The Laws
of (New) Media: Marshall McLuhan and Knowledge Technologies
Speaker: Dale
Hunscher, CEO, South Wind Design, Inc.
Description: Marshall McLuhan foresaw the effects of the
Internet more than 30 years ahead of his time. His "Global Village"
concept is now a household word, as well as a virtual reality.
In this presentation, we'll look at McLuhan's Laws of Media to
see how they help us make sense of the features of the markup
language standards world.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Best Practices & Approaches for
Using IT to Support KM
Speaker: Cindy
Hubert, Manager, Knowledge Management, APQC, Custom Solutions
Description: It is no coincidence that information technology
(IT) has blossomed at the same time that knowledge is becoming
recognized as the most valuable of a firm's assets. There is a
powerful synergistic relationship between KM and technology; that
relationship drives increasing returns and increasing sophistication
on both fronts. In this presentation Ms. Hubert will provide guidance
in how IT can be used toward KM efforts.
Presentation
Materials: Power Point Slides
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track Chair: Dr. H. Holger Rath,
empolis Content Management GmbH
K-Discovery:
Identification of Distributed Knowledge Structures in a Process
Oriented Groupware Environment
Speaker: Stefan
Smolnik, Research Assistant, University of Paderborn
Description: Scenarios in groupware environments show the
problems of accessing knowledge structures in common and organizational
knowledge structures in particular. Based on this an architectural
model will be introduced during this session, in which knowledge
structures are created by generating Topic Maps in a process oriented
groupware environment.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides and PDF Paper
Using
XML Metadata with PDF to Enable Asset Management
Speaker: Chuck
Myers, Senior Manager of Business Development, Adobe Systems,
Incorporated
Description: One of the keys to enabling corporate knowledge
asset management is the use of metadata to identify and organize
the assets. This presentation will explain how XML metadata can
be used with PDF documents to enable management of these assets.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Technical
Track: Core Technologies
Track Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky,
Cogitech
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
11:00am-12:30pm (two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track: The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
Getting
on the Knowledge Bus: Objects, Links, and Asset Management Strategies
Speaker: Chris
W. Higgins
Description: This presentation will discuss how the Knowledge
Bus is a channel over which knowledge flows between two or more
knowledge processing devices to provide a common medium for
the explicit representation and exchange of knowledge assets.
By unifying the infrastructures for data integration, security
policies and knowledge personalization, the Bus exploits generic
addressing and linking to create a new world of fungible knowledge
objects.
Presentation Materials: TBA
Managing
the Intellectual Property Lifecycle
Speaker: Bryan
Bell, President/Founder, Synth-Bank LLC
Presenation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Sam
Hunting, EComXML
Applying
Topic Maps to the Classification of Health Interventions
Speaker: Derek
Millar, Director, Professional Services, NewBook Production
Inc.
Description: This presentation will describe how a health
information application in Canada, the classification of health-related
interventions, can benefit from the application of Topic Maps, an
international standard for codifiying subjects and the relationships
between them. How the semantics of the classification can be captured
in a topic map, the impact of having a topic map on the process
of publishing conventional paper and CD-ROM reference products,
and the implications for collaboration and sharing of information
with international health classification initiatives will be discussed.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Topic
Maps, NewsML, and XML: Possible Integration and Implementations
Speaker: Soelwin
Oo, Student Developer, empolis UK
Description: This presentation will highlight real world
scope of topic maps based technologies. It will focus on the newly
published IPTC XML based NewsML standard and discuss how these two
standards can be used together to provide a powerful collective
knowledge base.
Presentation Materials: PDF Paper
and Power Point Slides
Technical
Track: Core Technologies
Track Chair: Nikita Ogievetsky,
Cogitech
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
2:00pm-3:30pm
(two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track: The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
Creating
Standards-Based Knowledge Systems using NewsML and Topic
Maps
Speaker: Daniel
Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom
Description: This presentation will provide an overview
of the NewsML and Topic Maps standards. It will show how,
because of their powerful synergy, Topic Maps and NewsML
can combine to make a newsfeed into a knowledge engine,
and a news archive into a navigable knowledge repository.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
What's Required in Knowledge
Technologies - A Practical View
Speaker: Reid
Smith, Vice President Knowledge Management, Schlumberger
Description: Reid Smith is responsible for leading
the effort to improve organizational performance through
processes and technology to capture, share, and apply
the overall experience and know-how of people in the company.
Learn about the requirements for knowledge technologies
from a practicing knowledge manager.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Dr.
H. Holger Rath, empolis Content Management GmbH
Compendium:
Making Meetings into Knowledge Events
Speaker: Albert M. Selvin, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Verizon Communications and
Dr.
Jeff Conklin, CogNexus
Description: This presentation will discuss how much
of an organization's knowledge is constructed and negotiated
in face-to-face meetings, but is often lost or forgotten.
Compendium harvests formal and informal knowledge in real
time, increasing shared understanding among meeting participants,
creating a coherent organizational memory of learnings and
decisions, and integrating the knowledge creation process
across time and across diverse communities.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Knowledge
Holographs that Leverage How We Learn for Maximum Knowledge
Management Productivity
Speaker:
Bain
McKay, Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President,
CIRI Lab Inc.
Description: TOPIC MAPS address a new and powerful way to
represent knowledge context in and across documents. But
they represent only the first stage of Knowledge Management
productivity. To be truly productive, we must address the
entire Knowledge Management Life Cycle, including learning
productivity where we waste 80% of our time organizing information
for personal learning. We can automate this process by leveraging
how we learn through new indexing methods like Knowledge
Holographs that index fractal semantic analogues in real-time
across 100s and 1000s of dimensions with mass scalability.
Such methods depart significantly from standard scientific
methods that focus deeply on individual disciplines by concomitantly
leveraging both the broad and deep disciplines of Cognitive
Science, in which information science plays a much less
prominent role, and where the power of knowledge management
shifts from information scientist, to domain expert.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point 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: TBA
A
Processing Model for Topic Maps (New title TBA)
Speakers:
Michel
Biezunski, CEO/Founder, InfoLoom, Inc. and Steven
R. Newcomb, CoolHeads Consulting
Description: An introductory discussion of the
processing model for topic maps that appears at https://www.topicmaps.net/pmtm4.htm
Presentation Materials: Slides
4:00pm-5:30pm (two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track: The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
eCommerce
Powered by Knowledge Technologies
Speaker: Dr.
H. Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager, empolis
Content Management GmbH
Description: Discussed during the session will
be how a B2C eCommerce Web site require excellent sales
support (assistance) to attract the customers and to be
successful. Ordinary database and fulltext queries as
well as simple profiles do not provide the expected level
of service. Knowledge technologies can fuel intelligent
searching, personalized feedback dialogs, and sophisticated
knowledge navigation giving the customer the kind of help
and comfort she is looking for. The results are higher
traffic, turnovers, and increased customer satisfaction.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Intelligent Document Content for
e-Business
Speaker: Dan
Z. Sokol, President, Cohesia Corporation
Description: This presentation will discuss the
requirements for enriching XML to enable more automated
document interpretation in support of e-business activities.
The presentation will discuss real world applications
in a trade exchange and a manufacturing enterprise.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Implementer
Track: Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting, EComXML
Harvesting
XML Topic Maps
Speaker: Nikita
Ogievetsky, President, CogiTech Inc.
Description: Session discussions will focus on
principals and techniques for harvesting XML Topic Maps.
The presentation will be based on the experience with
using XSLT scripts for XTM extraction from various types
of metadata.
Presentation Materials: TBA
The
Automatic Encoding of Lexical Knowledge in RDF Topicmaps
Speaker: Carol
Jean Godby, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Online
Computer Library Center
Description: This presentation describes strategies
for automatically extracting terminology and lexical relationships
from collections of similar Web documents. The results
are represented as an RDF graph that can be loaded into
the Open Extensible RDF Toolkit to produce a searchable
and browsable topicmap.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Technical
Track: Core Technologies
Track Chair: Michel Biezunski,
InfoLoom, Inc.
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
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