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[tdwg-tapir] r1388 - in tapir: . dev/schema
by svn＠rs.tdwg.org 08 May '08

08 May '08

Author: RicardoPereira Date: 2008-05-08 13:55:11 +0200 (Thu, 08 May 2008) New Revision: 1388 Added: tapir/dev/schema/test.txt Modified: tapir/index.html Log: This is a test, please disregard. Added: tapir/dev/schema/test.txt =================================================================== --- tapir/dev/schema/test.txt (rev 0) +++ tapir/dev/schema/test.txt 2008-05-08 11:55:11 UTC (rev 1388) @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +This is a test. Please disregard. Modified: tapir/index.html =================================================================== --- tapir/index.html 2008-05-08 11:54:19 UTC (rev 1387) +++ tapir/index.html 2008-05-08 11:55:11 UTC (rev 1388) @@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ <p>Copyright (c) October 2006</p> -</body></html> \ No newline at end of file +</body></html>

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Re: [tdwg-tag] OpenID - is it for us?
by Donald.Hobern＠csiro.au 07 May '08

07 May '08

Roger, No special comments on OpenID, but the ALA is expected to make use of the services of the Australian Access Federation (as they come into existence). The AAF (http://www.aaf.edu.au/) expects to provide a Shibboleth/PKI Trust Federation on behalf of Australian research organisations. I would expect the ALA ultimately to serve as infrastructure for connecting e.g. biosecurity officers not only with public-access data sets but also with more restricted data sets mediated via AAF services. In other words, I have an interest in this area and in any approaches and models adopted elsewhere in the biodiversity informatics community. Donald Donald Hobern, Director, Atlas of Living Australia CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601 Phone: (02) 62464352 Mobile: 0437990208 Email: Donald.Hobern(a)csiro.au

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OpenID - is it for us?
by Roger Hyam 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi Everyone, Does anyone have any experience with OpenID? http://openid.net/ Would this be a useful and simple way to provide cohesion within our community if one of the bigger members (GBIF, TDWG, EoL etc) acted as an Open ID provider? I know there were presentations on Shibboleth at TDWG 2007. http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ OpenID seems simpler but does no authorization I believe (it is just an ID solution). Could the two be integrated for those who need to share notions of authorization... I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this. Thanks, Roger ------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Hyam Roger(a)BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org http://www.BiodiversityCollectionsIndex.org ------------------------------------------------------------- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR, UK Tel: +44 131 552 7171 ext 3015 Fax: +44 131 248 2901 http://www.rbge.org.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement
by Roger Hyam (TDWG) 01 May '08

01 May '08

My fellow TAG members. There has been discussion about how we could get some more training in OWL ontologies but unfortunately lack funds to support a meeting. I was surprise when the announcement below came through. I hadn't noticed this in the other announcements from the e-Science institute or I would have drawn you attention to it sooner. There is no mention of a workshop fee but I presume travel and accommodation would have to be found. Being local I have applied to attend despite it falling in the middle of a planned holiday :( You may like to consider applying to attend if you can obtain funding for travel and accommodation. All the best, Roger Begin forwarded message: > From: Kate Lindey <klindey(a)nesc.ac.uk> > Date: 1 May 2008 10:14:12 BST > To: nesc-announce(a)nesc.ac.uk > Subject: The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement > Reply-To: klindey(a)nesc.ac.uk > > > Dear All, > > Please find information below about a forthcoming event taking place > at the > e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh > > Please circulate to colleagues that may be interested in attending. > > > > The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement > --------------------------------------------------- > The e-Science Institute is delighted to host "An Introduction to > Writing > Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)". > > The aims of this workshop are to: > > > understand the use of ontologies > understand statements written in OWL; > understand the role of automatic reasoning in ontology building; > build an ontology and use a reasoner to draw inferences based on that > ontology; > gain experience in the Protégé 4 ontology building environment; > gain insight into how OWL can play a role in semantic metadata. > > > Organiser: Georgina Moulton > Dates and Time: Wednesday 21st May 10.00 - Thursday 22nd May 15.30 > Place: e-Science Institute > University of Edinburgh > 13-15 South College Street > Edinburgh > EH8 9AA > > > For registration and more details see http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/895/ > . > > > > > Abstract: > This two-day introductory ’hands-on’ workshop aims to provide > attendees with > both the theoretical foundations and practical experience to begin > building > OWL ontologies using the latest version of the Protégé-OWL tools > (Protege4). > It is based on Manchester’s well-known "Pizza tutorial" (see > http://www.co-ode.org). > > This tutorial will cover the main conceptual parts of OWL through the > hands-on building of an ontology of pizzas and their ingredients. A > series > of exercises take attendees through the process of conceptualizing the > toppings found on a pizza; the entry of this classification into the > Protégé > environment; the description of many types of pizza. All this is set > in the > context of using automatic reasoning to check the consistency of the > growing > ontology and to use the reasoner to make queries about pizzas. Since > 2003 > this tutorial, in various forms, has been given over 20 times and been > attended by hundreds of budding ontologists. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Please email "list-subscriptions(a)nesc.ac.uk" if you wish to be > removed from this mailing list. > ------------------------------------------------------------- >

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