19.741 workshop on ontology

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 741.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

         Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:58:10 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: workshop on ontology

                        - OnToContent 2006 -
       Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise
             -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources-

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*** Proceedings published by Springer LNCS
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*** Invited Speaker: To be announced ***
*** Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006 ***
*** Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization ***
*** Enterprise, eHealth, Human Resources ***
*** http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06 ***
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     In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06)
                    3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France

This workshop is organized by the Ontology Outreach Authority OOA
(Knowledge Web NoE). The OOA is devoted to develop strategies for ontology
recommendation and standardization, thereby promoting and providing
outreach for verifiable quality ontological content.

Current trends within the Semantic Web research are mainly concerned with
technological issues, such as language capabilities, inference services,
etc. Yet less attention has been given to ontology content and its
quality.This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as
methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies,
approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology
content management (e.g. metadata,libraries, and registration), ontology
documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to
ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and
employment, and healthcare and life sciences.

We welcome papers and (past/planned) project descriptions that discuss
ontology modeling and evaluation aspects, particularly:
* Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear
    illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry.
* Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice,
    or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to
    warrant attention.
* Business experience and case studies specifying requirements,
    challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in
    industry.

Workshop Structure
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The workshop consists of three tracks: Ontology Evaluation, Ontologies in
Human Resources and Employment, and ontologies in Healthcare and life
sciences:

Methods and tools for ontology evaluation:
        * Ontological evaluation.
        * Logical evaluation.
        * Usability/usefulness evaluation.
        * Ontology compliance to standards.
        * Ontology standardization and recommendation scenarios.
        * Ontology metadata, and libraries.
        * Ontology documentation.
        * Ontology registration and certification.
        * Ontology interoperability.
        * Consensus reaching.
        * Business cases studies.

Ontologies in Human Resources
        * Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills,
           Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc.
        * HR upper level concepts.
        * Semantics of HR-XML.
        * Semantic metadata for HR applications.
        * Semantics in job matching.
        * Semantics in learning technologies.
        * Multilinguality in human resources ontologies.
        * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and
          evaluation.

Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences
        * Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
        * Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
        * Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
        * Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
        * Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
        * Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
        * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and
          evaluation

Submissions
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We invite (A) research papers describing original studies of no more than
12 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of
no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no
more than 8 pages. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the
originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on
technical aspects. Each paper will be reviewed by at least one expert from
academia, and at least one expert from industry. The final proceedings
will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science). Author instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ontocontent/2006/papers

Important Dates
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        * June 23, 2006 : Abstract Submission Deadline
        * June 30, 2006: Paper Submission Deadline
        * August 10, 2006 : Acceptance Notification
        * August 20, 2006 : Final Version Due
        * November 3-4, 2006: Workshop

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Computing in the Humanities | King's College London | Kay House, 7
Arundel Street | London WC2R 3DX | U.K. | +44 (0)20 7848-2784 fax:
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