[tdwg-tag] Fwd: The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement
Roger Hyam (TDWG)
rogerhyam at mac.com
Thu May 1 16:12:12 CEST 2008
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 at nesc.ac.uk>
> Date: 1 May 2008 10:14:12 BST
> To: nesc-announce at nesc.ac.uk
> Subject: The e-Science Institute Workshop Announcement
> Reply-To: klindey at 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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