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
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From: Kate Lindey klindey@nesc.ac.uk Date: 1 May 2008 10:14:12 BST To: nesc-announce@nesc.ac.uk Subject: The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement Reply-To: klindey@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.
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