The December 2006 presentation evening was held at the
Oxford University Computing Labs (OX1 3QD), from 6.30-8.30pm on
6 December 2006. The presenters were:
Alistair Miles, CLCRC
Towards the Management of Meaning
Starts with a brief update on the work of the recently chartered W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group. The SWDWG is chartered to develop SKOS to W3C Recommendation status, to continue work on embedding RDF in XHTML, to provide practical guidance on the management of vocabularies and namespaces, and to continue the work on "how-to" guidelines for OWL. Continues to look ahead to practical and economic challenges in the deployment of systems based on technologies like SKOS. How do you manage dependencies between evolving controlled vocabularies and the metadata in which they are deployed, without spending a lot of money or limiting the size of a system? What model(s) of vocabulary change management are required to achieve this? Can tools be designed to implement these models of change management, and still be usable?
Eamonn Neylon, CSW Group
Widgets in Semantic Applications
Ontology developers often shy away from implementation concerns when building models. Yet it takes applications to utilise these models. Hence an understanding of what should be expected of ontologies needs to be forthcoming, if the effort invested in their creation is to pay dividends. Taking a pattern based approach this talk asks whether some applications are obvious and if a library of such exemplar applications should be constructed.
John Pybus, University of Oxford
A Virtual Workspace for the Study of Ancient Documents
The surviving ancient documents available for scholarly study are frequently in poor or degraded condition and deciphering their text can be a matter of academic debate. As part of a Virtual Research Environments project, we are creating an online system to assist in the reading of ancient inscriptions, supporting the annotation of images of these documents, the sharing of these annotations with other researchers alongside easy access to related reference works and databases.