February 2010 - tdwg-tag - lists.tdwg.org

Re: [tdwg-tag] RDF N3
by Kevin Richards 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

I like the sound of the 'compactness' of the format, but I worry that there is a lack of tools that support the format (ie browsers, mainly). It is quite nice to naturally navigate the rdf world with a standard browser. But for transfer standards, I suppose this wouldn't matter. Kevin Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Bob Morris" <morris.bob(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 12:08 PM Subject: [tdwg-tag] RDF N3 To: "Technical Architecture Group mailing list" <Tdwg-tag(a)lists.tdwg.org> Let's make N3 be the recommended RDF representation. It is way more compact and human readable than RDF/XML. We could even specify a normative conversion tool if necessary. -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram(a)cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466 _______________________________________________ tdwg-tag mailing list tdwg-tag(a)lists.tdwg.org http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-tag ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email Warning: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you receive it in error: (i) you must not read, use, disclose, copy or retain it; (ii) please contact the sender immediately by reply email and then delete the emails. The views expressed in this email may not be those of Landcare Research New Zealand Limited. http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz

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https://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/xsd/tdwg_dwcterms.xsd missing taxonAccordingTo
by Bob Morris 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

The current twg_dwcterms.xsd seems to be missing taxonAccordingTo Bob -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram(a)cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466

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Registration Open for Conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio)
by Hilmar Lapp 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Registration is now open for the inaugural conference on Informatics for Phylogenetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (iEvoBio), at http://www.evolutionsociety.org/SSE2010/Register.html . iEvoBio aims to bring together biologists working in evolution, systematics, and biodiversity, with software developers, and mathematicians, both to develop new tools, and to increase awareness of existing technologies (ranging from standards and reusable toolkits to mega-scale data analysis to rich visualization). The 2-day meeting will take place June 29-30, 2010, in Portland, OR, jointly with the Evolution Meetings as a satellite conference. The event will feature traditional elements, including a keynote presentation at the beginning of each day and contributed talks, as well as more dynamic and interactive elements, including a challenge, lightning talk-style sessions, a software bazaar, and Birds-of-a- Feather gatherings. Attendees can register jointly for Evolution and iEvoBio at a discount, or only for the iEvoBio conference. For more information about registration, venue, travel, or accommodations visit the Evolution 2010 website at http://www.evolutionsociety.org/SSE2010/. More details about the program and guidelines for contributing content are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference's Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio. iEvoBio is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in partnership with the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). Additional support has been provided by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The iEvoBio 2010 Organizing Committee: Rod Page (University of Glasgow) Cecile Ane (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Rob Guralnick (University of Colorado at Boulder) Hilmar Lapp (NESCent) Cynthia Parr (Encyclopedia of Life) Michael Sanderson (University of Arizona)

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Fwd: [p4-feedback] Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web
by Bob Morris 02 Feb '10

02 Feb '10

This may be of interest to readers of these lists, at the least as to the existing initiatives referenced. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:43 PM Subject: [p4-feedback] Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web To: protege-discussion-request(a)lists.stanford.edu, "Submit feedback for Protege 4.0 beta" <p4-feedback(a)lists.stanford.edu>, protege-owl-request(a)lists.stanford.edu ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ Heraklion, Greece - Deadline: March 1, 2010 The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum. Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqué outlining requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle. Submitting papers and system descriptions We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development and application of ontology repositories, repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions discussing some of the following questions: * How can ontology repositories "talk" to each other? * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository be made comprehensible for users? * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle? * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories? * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other applications and legacy systems? * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology repositories? * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors? * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning? * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures? * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications? * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these? Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0 ). Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of the submissions, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010 . Important dates Papers and demo submission: March 1, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification: April 5, 2010 Camera ready version: April 18, 2010 Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010 Organizing committee Mathieu d'Aquin, the Open University, UK Alexander García Castro, Bremen University, Germany Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Kim Viljanen, Aalto University, Finland Program committee Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA. Leo J. Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA. Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA. Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA. Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Mike Dean, BBN, USA. John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany. Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany. Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany. Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany. Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland. Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands. Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland. Martin Luts, ELIKO TAK, Estonia. Janne Saarela, Profium Ltd, Finland. Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sandro Hawke, W3C. Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac Postal address: Alexander Garcia, Tel.: +49 421 218 64211 Universität Bremen Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5 D-28359 Bremen _______________________________________________ p4-feedback mailing list p4-feedback(a)lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/p4-feedback -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram(a)cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466

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