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• Monday, March 5
• Tuesday, March 6
• Wednesday, March 7
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Dianne
Kennedy
InfoLoom, Inc.
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Tuesday,
March 6 •
9:00am-10:30am
(two sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; The Business of Knowledge
Track Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry
Technologies
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.
Best Practices in Using IT to Support KM
Speaker: Cindy Hubert, KM Practice
Area Manager, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10:30am-11:00am
Break
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.
Late
Breaking News
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.
XML, newsML, and Topic Maps; 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.
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.
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.
12:30pm-2:00pm
Luncheon with Poster Presentations and Table-top Exhibits
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Building,
Sharing, and Merging Ontologies
Speaker: John Sowa, Independant
Consultant
Description: For centuries, librarians have sought
universal terminologies and definitions for classifying
and integrating databases of documents. During the 1970s,
the ANSI SPARC committee proposed the three-schema architecture
for defining and integrating database systems. Today,
the semantic web raises similar, but still unsolved problems
of relating and integrating independently developed knowledge
bases. This talk surveys the issues involved, the approaches
that have been successfully applied to small systems,
and the ongoing efforts to extend them to large-scale,
distributed, interconnected, rapidly growing, heterogeneous
systems.
3:30pm-4:00pm
Break
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.
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.
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.
The
Automatic Encoding of Lexical Knowledge in RDF Topic Maps
Speaker: Carol Jean Godby,
Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
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.
Technical
Track; Core Technologies
Track Chair: Michel Biezunski,
InfoLoom, Inc.
Grounding Knowledge Technology in Neuroscience
Speaker: Paul S. Prueitt,
Founder, OntologyStream.com
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.
Bringing Knowledge Technologies to the Classroom
Speaker: Jack Park, Sr.
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.
5:30pm-7:00pm
Reception with Poster Presentations and Tabletop Exhibits
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