Semantic Desktop Hands-On Workshop April 2006

Semantic Desktop Hands-On Workshop April 2006

The next Semantic Desktop hack! Learn about current projects on the Semantic Desktop, express your ideas and combine them with others.

• current topic: Sem Desk2006Pizza Order

Date & Place

April 21st - 23rd, 2006

Location

DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany, Building 57, Room 508

Registration

Participation fee for the three-day workshop is 30?, to be paid at the first day on site.

Register by sending an e-mail to Thomas Roth-Berghofer.

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

Participants

• Arne Handt : 20.-24.04.
• Anja Jentzsch: 20.-24.04.
• Thomas Roth-Berghofer
• Leo Sauermann
• Dominik Heim
• Danish Nadeem
• Benjamin Horak : 23.-24.04.
• Tudor Groza
• Siegfried Handschuh
• Martin Homik
• Richard Cyganiak : 20.-24.04.
• Frank Wagner : 20.-22.04.
• Alexander Troussov : 20.-24.04.
• Giovanni Tummarello
• Christian Morbidoni
• Frank Osterfeld : 21.04.
• Sven Schwarz : 21.04.-23.04.

• Sem Desk Hack2006Participant Foaf Links

Accomodation

Richard, Arne, Frank & Anja stay at: City-Hotel, Rosenstraße 28, 67655 Kaiserslautern, 0631/316860 - 58?/night including breakfast

The city of Kaiserslautern has a list of hotels here: http://www.kaiserslautern.de/tourismus/hotels_und_unterkuenfte/index.html?lang=de&download=00157

The Pension Blum (Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 7, 67655 Kaiserslautern, Tel.: +49-631-3115656) is known to be cheap and ok, and is 2 minutes from the station. (or if price is not an issue the Dorint is between DFKI and the city centre and is also nice … )

Organizers

• 
  DFKI GmbH
• 
  XML Clearinghouse
• Arne Handt
• Anja Jentzsch
• Thomas Roth-Berghofer
• Leo Sauermann
• Gunnar Grimnes

Topics

• frameworks for Semantic Desktop
  • Gnowsis
  • OpenIRIS
  • DBIN
• possible application scenarions
• your scenario - your diploma thesis, your customer project
• Ontologies for the Semantic Desktop
• The Nepomuk EU Project - what it is?
• Programming interfaces for the Semantic Desktop
• Cooperations based on existing projects
• Philosophical impact of the Semantic Desktop, changes in knowledge work and society.

Talks, Demos, Posters submissions

We will have slots for talks, demos and posters. Roughly four talks per day, each 30 minutes. Alltogether there are 10 slots for talks open.

Please submit your proposed talk, poster or demo via e-mail to Arne Handt.

Program

• Talk: (Thomas Roth-Berghofer): NEPOMUK and the Gnowsis Semantic Desktop
• Talk & Demo: Leo Sauermann: Talk: Sem Desk2006Gnowsis Presentation current state of the gnowsis semantic desktop
• Talk: Dominik Heim: Introducing his diploma thesis
• Talk: Arne Handt: The IRIS Semantic Desktop
• Talk: Anja Jentzsch: Performance and scalability of Semantic Web applications
• Talk: Richard Cyganiak: Semantic Web user interfaces
• Talk: Alexander Troussov: Automation of ontology-based semantic tagging
• Talk: Giovanni Tummarello: Sem Desk2006DBINPresentation The DBIN Project. (1h)
• Talk: Benjamin Horak: ConTag - A Tagging System linking the Semantic Desktop with Web 2.0.

Thursday, 20.04.2006

• Arrival of Frank
• 23:41 Arrival of Arne, Richard & Anja

Friday, 21.04.2006

• • Welcome reception at DFKI
• 09:30 Greetings & reading your e-mails
• 10:00 - 12:00 talks
  • Talk: Gnowsis(Leo Sauermann)
  • Talk: Dominik Heim
  • Hands-On gnowsis
• 12:30 - 14:00 Lunchbreak (+reading your e-mails)
  • 14:00 Talk: DBIN(Giovanni Tummarello)
  • 15:00 - 18:00: coding projects
• 20:00 - social event: Eating and drinking
  • 20:00 - Meeting at Brauhaus am Markt (we have a reservation for 15 people at 20:00, tel 61944)
  • a map there
  • 22:00 - Changing location to the Bar 21 - homepage (we have a reservation for 15 people at 22:00, tel 3204370)
  • see also the map

Saturday, 22.04.2006

• 10:00 - 12:00 talks
  • Talk: The IRIS Semantic Desktop (Arne Handt)
  • Talk: Semantic Web user interfaces (Richard Cyganiak)
  • (cancelled) Talk: Performance & scalability of Semantic Web applications (Anja Jentzsch)
  • (cancelled) Talk & Discussion: Architecture of an integrated Semantic Desktop using OSGI, Eclipse RCP and Portlets (from Nepomuk view) (Leo Sauermann)
• 20:00 - social event: Eating and drinking
  • at Glockencafe (we have a reservation for 15 people, tel 60384)
  • this is the location where we also make the great escape and a classical place to go
  • see also th e map

Sunday, 23.04.2006

• 10:00 - 11:30 talks
  • Talk: NEPOMUK and the Gnwosis Semantic Desktop (Thomas Roth-Berghofer)
  • Talk: Automation of ontology-based semantic tagging (Alexander Troussov)
  • Talk: ConTag (Benjamin Horak)
• Eating: Sem Desk2006Pizza Order
• 20:00 - social event for monday-travellers: EOF at Leo and Ingrid's flat
  • at Leo and Ingrid's flat
  • see also photos
  • Center of Kaiserslautern,
  • Pirmasenser Str 18

Monday, 24.04.2006

• travelling home

Web presence

recommended tags: semdesk hack 2006, kaiserslautern

Photos at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/semdeskhack/pool/

IRC-Chat:

• #gnowsis channel on IRC-Net on freenode
• For short: irc://irc.freenode.net/gnowsis.

Previous Workshops

• December 2005 workshop

Meta-Info

Why this date? Many people have time there and the Nepomuk meeting is 4-5th May and Nepomuk members will be stressed at 30th April.