Semantic End User Applications Hands-on Workshop 2008

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[edit] About

This hands-on Workshop will be an opportunity to learn about ongoing research and development effort in the area of Semantic End-User Applications, Semantic Desktop, and Semantic Personal Knowledge Management. It will consist of a scheduled program of talks, presentations and demos, and self-organized phases where small teams go into hands-on development and discussions on concrete projects.

Invited participants are practitioners, researchers, and interested IT persons; it is recommended to contribute by a short presentations or demo of your own work.

Deadline for registration and submissions is March 28th 2008.

This event is limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

[edit] Date & Place

April 2008 (exact date not set yet), Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Computer Science Berlin, Germany

Map

Directions:

  • Subway: take subway U3 (timetable) to station Dahlem-Dorf, leave the station by the staircase in the back, walk ahead to Königin-Luise-Straße turn right and follow the street for about 300m, turn right at Hechtgraben, cross Arnimallee after about 200m, follow the small path between the buildings until you reach the rectangular court after 100m, the entrance to the building is to your left.
  • Busses (from Steglitz): take line X83 (timetable as PDF) to Museen Dahlem, cross Königin-Luise-Straße and walk into Arnimallee, after about 150m turn left into the small path between the buildings until you reach the rectangular court after 100m, the entrance to the building is to your right.

[edit] Program

  • Exact dates will be announced.
  • Welcome (Day -1)
    • 20:00 Meet & Greet and welcome dinner at the Bergmann 103 (Map)
  • Workshop Day 1
    • 09:45-10:00 Welcome Address/Local Organizer
    • 10:00-10:15 Introduction/Leo Sauermann
    • 10:15-12:30 Lightning presentations of participants about their work, please announce topic and timeslot
    • 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
    • 13:30-17:30 Hands-on Development
    • 17:30-18:00 Daily Wrap-up - what did you learn?
    • Evening (ad lib): Social Event
  • Workshop Day 2
    • 09:45-12:30 Lightning presentations of participants about their work, please announce topic and timeslot
    • 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
    • 13:30-17:30 Hands-on Development
    • 17:30-18:00 Daily Wrap-up - what did you learn?
    • Evening (ad lib): Social Event
  • Workshop Day 3
    • 09:45-12:30 Lightning presentations of participants about their work, please announce topic and timeslot
    • 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
    • 13:30-17:30 Hands-on Development
    • 17:30-18:00 Daily Wrap-up - what did you learn?
    • Evening: Dinner and Workshop Wrap-Up.

[edit] Topics

Topics are applied semantic web technologies and applications that actually work or projects that aim at working soon.

  • Semantic Web Technologies
  • AI/machine learning methods for the Semantic Desktop
  • Semantic Desktop
  • Personal Information Managment
  • Personal Knowledge Management
  • Desktop Application Integration
  • Non-technical Aspects of Knowledge Work (Psychological, Social, etc.)
  • Visualization and User Interfaces for the Semantic Desktop
  • User Interfaces for Microformats and the Semantic Web
  • Scripting for the (Semantic) Desktop

Platforms, frameworks and other projects

[edit] Submission/Registration

This event is limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Please send your registration to Leo Sauermann until March 28th. We encourage participants to give talks, presentations or demos on ongoing research and development effort, this is however not mandatory in order to participate. Please enclose a proposal for your contribution within your registration. We will have about 15 slots for talks/presentations, 20 minutes each.

Your registration information should consist of

  • name and title,
  • affiliation,
  • research interest and activities,
  • expectations with regard to the workshop.

Participation fee for the three-day workshop is 40 EUR, to be paid at the first workshop day on site.

If not indicated otherwise by you, we will put your name and affiliation on the public list below.

[edit] Participants

Please don't add yourself to the list but follow the registration instructions above – thanks. While the list for 2008 is not ready yet, here are the 2007 attendees.

  • Leo Sauermann, DFKI GmbH
  • Richard Cyganiak, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Arne Handt, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Sven Schwarz, DFKI GmbH
  • Frank Wagner, Roskilde Universitetscenter
  • Henry Story, SUN Microsystems
  • Thorsten Karge, thoka.net
  • Markus Döring, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem
  • Olga Streibel, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Wolfgang O. Fleischer
  • Stéphane Laurière, XWiki/Mandriva, involved in NEPOMUK dissemination
  • Georg Lausen, Universität Freiburg
  • Kathrin Ringel, Spreefish
  • Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway
  • Christian Morbidoni, SEMEDIA - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
  • Laurent Laudinet, Thales
  • Christine Hoffmann, Spreefish
  • Susanne Richter, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Julien Gaugaz, L3S Research Center, Hannover
  • Rainer Wasserfuhr, mindbroker KG
  • Christian Witt, gereby.com
  • Christof Bobzin
  • Fanny Kozanecki, th data GmbH
  • Sonja Pajkovska-Goceva, Fraunhofer IPK
  • Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Gerald Reif, University of Zurich

Please don't add yourself to the list but follow the registration instructions above – thanks.

[edit] Suggested Accomodation

We will pick a conference venue where all participants can stay on site. The venue was not picked yet.

[edit] Organizers

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[edit] Previous Workshops

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