From Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk Sun Oct 1 08:53:33 2006 From: Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk (Tony Linde) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 16:53:33 +0100 Subject: FW: [ESWC2007-Announce] ESWC 2007 Newsletter - October Message-ID: <002b01c6e571$bf80c3f0$0302a8c0@urdlu> fyi... -----Original Message----- From: eswc2007-announce-bounces at lists.deri.org [mailto:eswc2007-announce-bounces at lists.deri.org] On Behalf Of Stijn Heymans Sent: 01 October 2006 14:01 To: eswc2007-announce at lists.deri.org Subject: [ESWC2007-Announce] ESWC 2007 Newsletter - October Dear?Semantic?Web?Colleagues:? The?4th?annual?European?Semantic?Web?Conference?is?happy?to?announce?the?lau nch?of?the first?official?newsletter - see attachment.?This?newsletter?will?cover?the?latest?information?regarding this?leading?Semantic?Web?event.? Best regards, ESWC?07?Publicity?Chair Stijn?Heymans stijn.heymans at deri.org -- http://members.deri.at/~stijnh/contact.html ++ You will feel hungry again in another hour. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: First ESWC 2007 newsletter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 331041 bytes Desc: not available URL: From norman at astro.gla.ac.uk Mon Oct 16 04:07:15 2006 From: norman at astro.gla.ac.uk (Norman Gray) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:07:15 +0100 Subject: Job opening, Semantic data models, UK Message-ID: Folks, This is a pre-announcement of a partly CompSci job in Glasgow, UK, which I'm associated with. The post is mostly aimed at CS people with an interest in applications, but Astro developers with theoretical tendencies would be very welcome also! I hope it isn't deemed an abuse of the list to post it here. Norman Initial applications are invited for two positions at the Department of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow, for the EPSRC funded project: Explicator: Intelligent access to foreign data models The Virtual Observatory (VO) project within astronomy has two core problems: how to find data from scattered, and often under-resourced, archives, and once it is found how to make use of it, given that different archives will generally have significantly different models of how their data is structured. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community doesn't really have the first problem -- there are rather fewer important accelerators and detectors, and so fewer data sources -- but does have the second, since different facilities have different, and necessarily inflexible, ideas about how to structure the data they produce. An obvious approach is to define a consensus model, but this can fall victim to the usual social problems of standardisation. This project will explore a radically different peer-to-peer approach, making it possible for software to extract the information it needs from a network of explanations. This approach recognises that partial and indirect understanding of a dataset's structure can, in important cases, be enough for the software to do its work. This approach builds on both well-established Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Engineering (KE) work, as well as on the emerging technologies from the Semantic Web community. It separately builds on work from the Information Retrieval (IR) community on how to work with distributed, heterogeneous and uncertain data. The work will extend the successful TERRIER information retrieval platform (http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier) and its corresponding tools, developed at the University of Glasgow, with semantic web tools and techniques. This project is a collaboration between the Information Retrieval group in Glasgow's department of Computing Science, the X-Ray and Observational Astronomy group within Leicester's department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Experimental Particle Physics group in Glasgow's department of Physics and Astronomy. Applicants should have a good first degree in Computer Science or Physical Science, and preferably a PhD and research experience in fields related to the project topic such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web/Mapping/Technologies or related subjects. Informal enquiries to: Dr Iadh Ounis (CS, Glasgow) tel: +44 (0)141 330 5652 or ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk, Dr Norman Gray (P&A, Leicester) norman at astro.gla.ac.uk Dr Paul Millar (GriddPP and Glasgow) p.millar at physics.gla.ac.uk Starting date: early January 2007 or soon thereafter. Salary details are to be confirmed, but we anticipate employing successful candidates on grade 7 of the University's salary scales: ?25,633 -?34,488 per annum -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK From andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it Tue Oct 31 06:01:19 2006 From: andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it (Andrea Preite Martinez) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:01:19 +0100 Subject: TN on Ontology Message-ID: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 is now available on the twiki page of the Semantics WG, together with the complete Javadoc documentation (formats .zip or tar.gz) of the draft ontology. Comments and contributions are warmly welcome. It is worth noting that the ontology is made of "defined" concepts, and only a fraction of them has been defined, for the moment only in terms of components and/or morphology and/or processes. Nothing yet has been done in terms of observational properties. Work is in progress. I then ask for the contribution of the members of the WG and of the scientific community to help finding the necessary and/or sufficient conditions to define the concepts (what is needed is a complete but concise description in plain text of the concepts in terms of components and/or morphology and/or physical processes and/or observational properties and/or ..). Andrea P.S.: the end of RFC period for the PR UCDlist version 1.2 is approaching! =================================================================================== Andrea Preite Martinez andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it IASF Tel.IASF:+39.06.4993.4641 Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100 Tel.CDS :+33.3.90242452 I-00133 Roma Cell.1 :+39.320.43.15.383 Cell.2 :+39. =================================================================================== From bernard.vatant at mondeca.com Tue Oct 31 06:45:45 2006 From: bernard.vatant at mondeca.com (Bernard Vatant) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:45:45 +0100 Subject: TN on Ontology In-Reply-To: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> References: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> Message-ID: <45476199.8080200@mondeca.com> Hello Andrea This looks like very interesting work. One remark : OWLDoc is fine, but cannot be imported back in an ontology editor (e.g. Prot?g? or SWOOP). Would it be possible for you to publish also the RDF file, which does not seem to be currently available from the Wiki? Thanks Bernard Andrea Preite Martinez a ?crit : > I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note > > "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 > > is now available on the twiki page of the Semantics WG, together with > the complete > Javadoc documentation (formats .zip or tar.gz) of the draft ontology. > Comments and contributions are warmly welcome. -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cit? Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant at mondeca.com Blog: Le?ons de Choses From seaman at noao.edu Tue Oct 31 11:08:45 2006 From: seaman at noao.edu (Rob Seaman) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:08:45 -0700 Subject: TN on Ontology In-Reply-To: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> References: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> Message-ID: <4A96FD45-A995-4320-BAC7-329BA35A35D8@noao.edu> On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Andrea Preite Martinez wrote: > I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note > > "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 The document is labeled v1.0. > It is worth noting that the ontology is made of "defined" concepts, > and only a fraction > of them has been defined, for the moment only in terms of > components and/or morphology > and/or processes. I see you've avoided recent controversy by not defining the word "planet" :?) Rob seaman at noao.edu From Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk Sun Oct 1 08:53:33 2006 From: Tony.Linde at leicester.ac.uk (Tony Linde) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 16:53:33 +0100 Subject: FW: [ESWC2007-Announce] ESWC 2007 Newsletter - October Message-ID: <002b01c6e571$bf80c3f0$0302a8c0@urdlu> fyi... -----Original Message----- From: eswc2007-announce-bounces at lists.deri.org [mailto:eswc2007-announce-bounces at lists.deri.org] On Behalf Of Stijn Heymans Sent: 01 October 2006 14:01 To: eswc2007-announce at lists.deri.org Subject: [ESWC2007-Announce] ESWC 2007 Newsletter - October Dear?Semantic?Web?Colleagues:? The?4th?annual?European?Semantic?Web?Conference?is?happy?to?announce?the?lau nch?of?the first?official?newsletter - see attachment.?This?newsletter?will?cover?the?latest?information?regarding this?leading?Semantic?Web?event.? Best regards, ESWC?07?Publicity?Chair Stijn?Heymans stijn.heymans at deri.org -- http://members.deri.at/~stijnh/contact.html ++ You will feel hungry again in another hour. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: First ESWC 2007 newsletter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 331041 bytes Desc: not available URL: From norman at astro.gla.ac.uk Mon Oct 16 04:07:15 2006 From: norman at astro.gla.ac.uk (Norman Gray) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:07:15 +0100 Subject: Job opening, Semantic data models, UK Message-ID: Folks, This is a pre-announcement of a partly CompSci job in Glasgow, UK, which I'm associated with. The post is mostly aimed at CS people with an interest in applications, but Astro developers with theoretical tendencies would be very welcome also! I hope it isn't deemed an abuse of the list to post it here. Norman Initial applications are invited for two positions at the Department of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow, for the EPSRC funded project: Explicator: Intelligent access to foreign data models The Virtual Observatory (VO) project within astronomy has two core problems: how to find data from scattered, and often under-resourced, archives, and once it is found how to make use of it, given that different archives will generally have significantly different models of how their data is structured. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community doesn't really have the first problem -- there are rather fewer important accelerators and detectors, and so fewer data sources -- but does have the second, since different facilities have different, and necessarily inflexible, ideas about how to structure the data they produce. An obvious approach is to define a consensus model, but this can fall victim to the usual social problems of standardisation. This project will explore a radically different peer-to-peer approach, making it possible for software to extract the information it needs from a network of explanations. This approach recognises that partial and indirect understanding of a dataset's structure can, in important cases, be enough for the software to do its work. This approach builds on both well-established Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Knowledge Engineering (KE) work, as well as on the emerging technologies from the Semantic Web community. It separately builds on work from the Information Retrieval (IR) community on how to work with distributed, heterogeneous and uncertain data. The work will extend the successful TERRIER information retrieval platform (http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier) and its corresponding tools, developed at the University of Glasgow, with semantic web tools and techniques. This project is a collaboration between the Information Retrieval group in Glasgow's department of Computing Science, the X-Ray and Observational Astronomy group within Leicester's department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Experimental Particle Physics group in Glasgow's department of Physics and Astronomy. Applicants should have a good first degree in Computer Science or Physical Science, and preferably a PhD and research experience in fields related to the project topic such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web/Mapping/Technologies or related subjects. Informal enquiries to: Dr Iadh Ounis (CS, Glasgow) tel: +44 (0)141 330 5652 or ounis at dcs.gla.ac.uk, Dr Norman Gray (P&A, Leicester) norman at astro.gla.ac.uk Dr Paul Millar (GriddPP and Glasgow) p.millar at physics.gla.ac.uk Starting date: early January 2007 or soon thereafter. Salary details are to be confirmed, but we anticipate employing successful candidates on grade 7 of the University's salary scales: ?25,633 -?34,488 per annum -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Norman Gray / http://nxg.me.uk eurovotech.org / University of Leicester, UK From andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it Tue Oct 31 06:01:19 2006 From: andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it (Andrea Preite Martinez) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:01:19 +0100 Subject: TN on Ontology Message-ID: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 is now available on the twiki page of the Semantics WG, together with the complete Javadoc documentation (formats .zip or tar.gz) of the draft ontology. Comments and contributions are warmly welcome. It is worth noting that the ontology is made of "defined" concepts, and only a fraction of them has been defined, for the moment only in terms of components and/or morphology and/or processes. Nothing yet has been done in terms of observational properties. Work is in progress. I then ask for the contribution of the members of the WG and of the scientific community to help finding the necessary and/or sufficient conditions to define the concepts (what is needed is a complete but concise description in plain text of the concepts in terms of components and/or morphology and/or physical processes and/or observational properties and/or ..). Andrea P.S.: the end of RFC period for the PR UCDlist version 1.2 is approaching! =================================================================================== Andrea Preite Martinez andrea.preitemartinez at iasf-roma.inaf.it IASF Tel.IASF:+39.06.4993.4641 Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100 Tel.CDS :+33.3.90242452 I-00133 Roma Cell.1 :+39.320.43.15.383 Cell.2 :+39. =================================================================================== From bernard.vatant at mondeca.com Tue Oct 31 06:45:45 2006 From: bernard.vatant at mondeca.com (Bernard Vatant) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:45:45 +0100 Subject: TN on Ontology In-Reply-To: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> References: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> Message-ID: <45476199.8080200@mondeca.com> Hello Andrea This looks like very interesting work. One remark : OWLDoc is fine, but cannot be imported back in an ontology editor (e.g. Prot?g? or SWOOP). Would it be possible for you to publish also the RDF file, which does not seem to be currently available from the Wiki? Thanks Bernard Andrea Preite Martinez a ?crit : > I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note > > "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 > > is now available on the twiki page of the Semantics WG, together with > the complete > Javadoc documentation (formats .zip or tar.gz) of the draft ontology. > Comments and contributions are warmly welcome. -- *Bernard Vatant *Knowledge Engineering ---------------------------------------------------- *Mondeca** *3, cit? Nollez 75018 Paris France Web: www.mondeca.com ---------------------------------------------------- Tel: +33 (0) 871 488 459 Mail: bernard.vatant at mondeca.com Blog: Le?ons de Choses From seaman at noao.edu Tue Oct 31 11:08:45 2006 From: seaman at noao.edu (Rob Seaman) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:08:45 -0700 Subject: TN on Ontology In-Reply-To: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> References: <20061031150119.4bj6hoh74gc8ck4s@webmail.sic.rm.cnr.it> Message-ID: <4A96FD45-A995-4320-BAC7-329BA35A35D8@noao.edu> On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:01 AM, Andrea Preite Martinez wrote: > I'm glad to announce that a Technical Note > > "Ontology of Astronomical Object Types" V0.1 The document is labeled v1.0. > It is worth noting that the ontology is made of "defined" concepts, > and only a fraction > of them has been defined, for the moment only in terms of > components and/or morphology > and/or processes. I see you've avoided recent controversy by not defining the word "planet" :?) Rob seaman at noao.edu