Opening Remarks and Goals of Workshop Nabil Adam (Rutgers), Yelena Yesha (UMBC) An Overview and Underview of the Semantic Web Tim Finin, UMBC The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute Kirk Barrett (Rutgers) The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Jim Quinn, UC Davis Summary of NSF Databases and the Semantic Web Workshop (1), (2) Amit Sheth, Georgia Information Integration and the Semantic Web Jose Luis Ambite, USC ISI Evolution of NBII Search-Based Technologies Donna Roy, USGS Building Ontologies for Environmental Information Retrieval Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine Architecture of an Electronic Field Guide Generator Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts GIS, Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing Francisco Artigas (Rutgers) Building an Environmental Component to Digital Government Sue Stendebach, NSF Knowledge-Based NLP and the Semantic Web Sergei Nirenburg (HMDC) Ontology Negotiation Sid Bailin, Knowledge Evolution