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Dianne Kennedy
InfoLoom, Inc.

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Graphic Communications Association

 


Sunday, March 4

PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS

9:00AM - 5:30PM

A Managers Guide to Topic Maps
Instructor:  Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom
Description: This beginner level tutorial will enable participants to understand what topic maps are all about and how they can be used to meet real-world requirements for the sharing and application of corporate knowledge. Intended for information managers rather than programmers, it will show how topic maps concepts are both far-reaching and, ultimately, easy to grasp.
Prerequisites: None

An Implementers Guide to Developing Topic Maps

Instructors:  Kal Ahmed, Principal Consultant, Ontopia and Steve Pepper, Founder & CTO, Ontopia
Description: This intermediate level tutorial concentrates on the practical issues in developing topic maps.  The focus is on technical solutions to the problems of topic map creation, maintenance and connecting resources to topic maps.
Prerequisites:  Knowledge of Topic Maps

Application of XSLT to Knowledge Transformations
Instructor:  G. Ken Holman, CTO, CraneSoftwrights, Inc.
Description: 
This tutorial is comprised of two half-day generic introductions: XML and the family of Recommendations, and Introduction to XSLT and XPath. XML is a technology suitable for knowledge representation, and XSLT is as tool that can be used for transforming XML-expressed knowledge representations from one form to another. Click below for detailed syllabi for each half-day session:
XML In The Corporation
An Introduction To XSLT and XPath
Prerequisite:  None

Standards for Knowledge
Instructors:
Linda Burman, VP of Standards, Kinecta Corporation, Ron Daniel Jr., Standards Architect, Interwoven, Inc., & Dianne Kennedy, Chief Technical Consultant, IDEAlliance
Description: This tutorial will provide an opportunity for the knowledge community to learn about the standards that apply to knowledge solutions.  This concise overview will enable participants to determine which standards are critical to their environment and which standards should be stated requirements in knowledge solutions they build or buy.
Prerequisites:  None

Practical Ontology Construction
Instructor: 
Carsten Tautz, Manager Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge Management Division, Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group
Description: 
Ontologies have grown in importance for representing organizational knowledge explicitly. While there exist several standards for this purpose (e.g., Topic Maps, OIL, DAML), the construction of comprehensive ontologies that reflect organization-specific needs remains a challenge. This tutorial gives an overview of the most important knowledge representation formalisms, sets existing ontology specification languages in relation to these formalisms, introduces organizational and methdological concepts for continuous learning, and finally presents a systematic, goal-oriented method for constructing ontologies that meet organization-specific information needs based on existing assets (e.g., text documents) and interests/needs of stakeholders.
Prerequisites:  None

Introduction to RDF
Instructors: 
Mike Olson, Senior Developer and Founder, Fourthought, Inc. and Chime Ogbuji, Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.
Description:
This introductory tutorial will provide a conceptual overview of the Resource Definition Framework, or RDF.  It will also introduce RDF Schema.  Concrete examples of RDF will be demonstrated using some of the currently available RDF tools.  
Prerequisites:
None

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