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Ecoterm IV

Environmental Terminology Workshop

Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
Favoritenstrasse 15a
A-1040 Vienna, Austria

17-18 April 2007

Preliminary Programme

Theme: The role of environmental terminologies in semantic data integration.

DAY 1: 17 April 2007

0745    Registration, Coffee and Networking

INTRODUCTION

0830

• Welcome
  • Welcome on behalf of Umweltbundesamt  (Elisabeth Friedbacher, Head of Department for Environmental Management, Transport & Noise, Umweltbundesamt, Austria)
  • Welcome on behalf of the Ministry (Waltraud Petek, Vice-Director General, Deputy Head of the Department of General Environmental Policy, Ministry for the Environment, BMLFUW, Austria)
• Opening Remarks including Ecoterm Vision (Gail Hodge, IIa/US Geological Survey/National Biological Information Infrastructure)

• Introduction to the Program (Gerhard Budin, Univ. of Vienna)

• Logistics (Rudolf Legat, Umweltbundesamt, Austria)

• Participant Introductions with Brief Statements of Interest

0945    Keynote:  Semantic Integration of Environmental Data (Herbert Schentz, Umweltbundesamt, Austria)

1015    Break

WHAT ARE THE USE CASES?

1045    Multilingual Issues in Ontology Creation: Examples from NeOn and Concept Server Projects (Margherita Sini, FAO)

AGROVOC and the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus at the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (Willem Robert van Hage, TNO Industrie en Techniek / Vrije Universiteit)

1130    UNEP e-Learning Initiatives (Gerry Cunningham, UNEP)

1200    Facilitating Meta-Analysis through the Use of Ontologies (Katharina Schleidt, Umweltbundesamt, Austria)

1230    Lunch

1330    Semantics in Web Service Composition for Risk Management (Michael Lutz, DG Joint Research Centre)

1400    Public Access and Spatial Metadata Values: Semantic Network Services Response to EU Directives (Thomas Bandholtz, innoQ Deutschland GmbH)

1430    Discussion (Moderator: Gerhard Budin)

1530    Break  

1745    Adjourn for First Day

1930 Reception at Diplomatic Academy

DAY 2: 18 April 2007

0830    Coffee and Networking

REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATIONS

0900    Semantics and the EPA System of Registries (Gail Hodge, IIa/ Consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency)

0930    Extended Metadata Registries and Semantics (Bruce Bargmeyer and Karlo Berket, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

1000    Using RSS to Share KOS Metadata (Margherita Sini, FAO)

1030    Break

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR SHARING SEMANTICS

1100    NBII/EIONET/FAO Demo of Federated KOS Search (Mike Frame, USGS/NBII; Stefan Jensen, EEA)

1130    Follow Up on Concurrent Thesaurus Maintenance Software Development (Hermann Stallbaumer, TBHS)

1200    Lunch

1300    Semantic Wikis (Harold Solbrig, Apelon Inc.)

1330    Risk Assessment Ontologies and Data Modeling Tools (Jef Vanbockryck,     Cronos, Brussels)

1400    Break

1430    Discussion (Moderator: Gerhard Budin)

1530    Summary and Next Steps (Gail Hodge, US Geological Survey/NBII)

1600    Adjourn