Semantic Desktop Hands-On Workshop April 2007

The Hands-on Workshop will be an opportunity to learn about ongoing research and development effort in the area of Semantic Desktop, Semantic Web, and Personal Knowledge Management. It will consist of a scheduled program of talks, presentations and demos, and self-organized phases of active software development in small teams, going into hands-on development on concrete projects together.

Participants are practitioners, researchers, and interested IT persons; it is encouraged to contribute by presentations or demos of your work.

Deadline for registration and submissions is March 28th.

This event is limited to a maximum of 25 participants. Since the workshop is now fully booked, new registrations will be put on a waiting list.

Slides

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Tools

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Date & Place

April 12th - 14th, 2007,
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Computer Science
Room SR 006,
Takustr. 9,
Berlin, Germany

Map

Directions:

  • Subway: take subway U3 (timetable) to station Dahlem-Dorf, leave the station by the staircase in the back, walk ahead to Königin-Luise-Straße turn right and follow the street for about 300m, turn right at Hechtgraben, cross Arnimallee after about 200m, follow the small path between the buildings until you reach the rectangular court after 100m, the entrance to the building is to your left.
  • Busses (from Steglitz): take line X83 (timetable as PDF) to Museen Dahlem, cross Königin-Luise-Straße and walk into Arnimallee, after about 150m turn left into the small path between the buildings until you reach the rectangular court after 100m, the entrance to the building is to your right.
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Program

  • Prologue
    • Wed 11th
      • 20:00 Meet & Greet (ad lib): We have a reservation at the Bergmann 103 (Map)
  • Workshop Days
    • Thu 12th
      • 09:45-10:00 Welcome Address/Arne Handt
      • 10:00-10:30 Introduction/Leo Sauermann (slides)
      • 10:30-11:00 Semantic Desktop & Knowledge Management/Wolfgang O. Fleischer
      • 11:00-11:30 Toward Proper Transport Layers for the Semantic Web/Giovanni Tummarello
      • 11:30-12:00 Aperture Tutorial/Leo Sauermann
      • 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
      • 13:30-17:30 Hands-on Development
      • 17:30-18:00 Daily Wrap-up Session
      • Evening (ad lib): We have a reservation for 7:00 pm at the QBA II, Oranienburger Straße 45 in Berlin Mitte (Map)
    • Fri 13th
      • 10:00-10:30 The Nepomuk Project/Stéphane Laurière Slides
      • 10:30-11:00 Semantic x Time = Narrative?/Thorsten Karge
      • 11:00-11:30 Semantic Web Browsing/Richard Cyganiak
      • 11:30-12:00 User Interface Design Demo/Christof Bobzin & Christian Witt
      • 12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
      • 13:30-17:30 Hands-on Development
      • 15:20-15:35: Personal URIs discussion of leo, giovanni, chris, richard
      • 17:30-18:00 Daily Wrap-up Session
      • Evening (ad lib): We have a reservation for 8:00 pm for dinner at the Maredo Unter den Linden, located in the inner courtyard of the "Zollernhof"
    • Sat 14th
      • 10:00-10:30 The Gnowsis Semantic Desktop/Leo Sauermann
      • 10:30-11:00 Florid/Georg Lausen
      • 11:00-11:30 AMERIGO/Fanny Kozanecki & Sonja Pajkovska-Goceva
      • 11:30-13:00 Lunch Break
      • 13:00-17:00 Hands-on Development
      • 17:00-18:00 Wrap-up Session
    • 20:15 Sushi at Aki Tatsu Sushi, Bergmannstr. 93, 10961 Berlin (Map)

Topics

  • Exemplary applications that actually work
  • Technologies
    • Semantic Web Technologies
    • AI/machine learning methods for the Semantic Desktop
  • Related areas of interest such as
    • Semantic Desktop
    • Personal Information Managment
    • Personal Knowledge Management
    • Desktop Application Integration
    • Non-technical Aspects of Knowledge Work (Psychological, Social, etc.)
    • Visualization and User Interfaces for the Semantic Desktop
    • User Interfaces for Microformats and the Semantic Web
    • Scripting for the (Semantic) Desktop
  • Platforms, frameworks and other projects

Submission/Registration

This event is limited to a maximum of 25 participants. Since the workshop is now fully booked, new registrations will be put on a waiting list.

Please send your registration to Arne Handt until March 28th. We encourage participants to give talks, presentations or demos on ongoing research and development effort, this is however not mandatory in order to participate. If you would like to contribute, please enclose a proposal for your contribution within your registration. We will have about 10 slots for talks/presentations, 30 minutes each.

Your registration information should consist of

  • name and title,
  • affiliation,
  • research interest and activities,
  • expectations with regard to the workshop.
Participation fee for the three-day workshop is 30?, to be paid at the first day on site.

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

Participants

Please don't add yourself to the list but follow the registration instructions above – thanks.

  1. Leo Sauermann, DFKI GmbH
  2. Richard Cyganiak, Freie Universität Berlin
  3. Arne Handt, Freie Universität Berlin
  4. Sven Schwarz, DFKI GmbH
  5. Frank Wagner, Roskilde Universitetscenter
  6. Henry Story, SUN Microsystems
  7. Thorsten Karge, thoka.net
  8. Markus Döring, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem
  9. Olga Streibel, Freie Universität Berlin
  10. Wolfgang O. Fleischer
  11. Stéphane Laurière, XWiki/Mandriva, involved in NEPOMUK dissemination
  12. Georg Lausen, Universität Freiburg
  13. Kathrin Ringel, Spreefish
  14. Giovanni Tummarello, DERI Galway
  15. Christian Morbidoni, SEMEDIA - Universita' Politecnica delle Marche
  16. Laurent Laudinet, Thales
  17. Christine Hoffmann, Spreefish
  18. Susanne Richter, Freie Universität Berlin
  19. Julien Gaugaz, L3S Research Center, Hannover
  20. Rainer Wasserfuhr, mindbroker KG
  21. Christian Witt, gereby.com
  22. Christof Bobzin
  23. Fanny Kozanecki, th data GmbH
  24. Sonja Pajkovska-Goceva, Fraunhofer IPK
  25. Anja Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin
  26. Gerald Reif, University of Zurich
Please don't add yourself to the list but follow the registration instructions above – thanks.

Accomodation

  • Best Western Hotel Berlin-Steglitz - located near Rathaus Steglitz in the south-west of Berlin, about 10 min. from the university (by bus), 15 min. to Potsdamer Platz in the center of Berlin (by S-Bahn train)
  • Winters Hotel Berlin - located near U3 subway station Heidelberger Platz, four stations from the university, about half-way between university and the western center of the city.
  • art'otel city center west - located near Kurfürstendamm in the western center of Berlin, about 30 min. from the university (by bus and subway)
  • Apartment Hotel Dahlem - located near the Grunewald forest, 400m from U3 subway station Oskar-Helene-Heim, two stations from the university, about 20 min. to the western center of the city.

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