Science on the Semantic Web

Building a New Generation of Environmental Information Systems

Oct. 24, 25, 2002

Gateway Hilton

Newark, New Jersey

Wednesday, Oct. 23

7:00 – 9:00 PM Icebreaker @ Market Street Bar & Grill, Gateway Hilton

Thursday, Oct. 24

8:30 – 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks and Goals of Workshop Nabil Adam (Rutgers), Yelena Yesha (UMBC)

9:30 – 10:00 An Overview and Underview of the Semantic Web Tim Finin, UMBC

10:00 – 10:30 The Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute Kirk arrett (Rutgers), Francisco Artigas (Rutgers)

10:30 –10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:15 The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Jim Quinn, UC Davis

11:15 – 11:45 Building an Environmental Component to Digital Government Sue Stendebach, NSF

Panel Discussion

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 Summary of NSF Databases and the Semantic Web Workshop Amit Sheth, Georgia

Session on Ontologies

1:30 – 2:00 Building Ontologies for Environmental Information Retrieval Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine

2:00 – 2:30 Ontology Versioning Jeff Heflin, Lehigh

Panel Discussion

3:00 – 3:15 Break

Session on Schema Integration vs. Ontology Mapping

3:15 – 3:45 Directions in Schema Integration Jose Luis Ambite, USC ISI

3:45 – 4:15 Ontology Negotiation Sid Bailin, Knowledge Evolution

4:15 – 5:30 Panel on Current and Future Reseach Each workshop participant will have the chance to spend 5-10 minutes (with or without slides) describing their work, hopes, and plans. The purpose of this session (and its continuation tomorrow) is to conduce collaboration.

7:00 Dinner at a local Portugese restaurant

Friday, October 25

8:30 – 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 State of the Art of Semantic Web Technologies Stefan Decker, USC ISI

9:30 – 10:00 Small Worlds on the Semantic Web Jen Golbeck, UMD

10:00 – 10:30 Ontological Infrastructure to Support Food Web Ecology Neo Martinez (SFSU), Rich Williams (SFSU)

10:30 – 10:45 Break

Session on Applications

10:45 – 11:15 Biobot Donna Roy, USGS

11:15 – 11:45 Architecture of an Electronic Field Guide Generator Robert Morris, University of Massachusetts

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch, combined with Closing Panel We continue to discuss our work and near-term plans.

1:00 – 4:00 rooms available for ad-hoc breakouts