[SEM-GRD] Semantic Grid at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting

[David De Roure <dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Hello - a message for our UK participants...

There are several Semantic Grid sessions at the UK e-Science 
All Hands Meeting in Nottingham next week (1-4 September) - see
the extract from the draft schedule below.

In particular, can I draw your attention to the "Semantic Grid
Mini Workshop" on Wednesday morning?  We would be very pleased 
to see you there.  

Those of you going to GGF - this mini-workshop will be a good
opportunity to prepare for the GGF Semantic Grid workshop on 
5th October.  If you can't make the mini-workshop, Carole and
I would be very pleased to talk to you at some other time during
the meeting.

I'm appending a copy of the workshop "flyer" to this message - 
please check back at the www.semanticgrid.org Web site for more 
info as the workshop schedule will be finalised this week.

I look forward to seeing some of you in Nottingham.

Thanks

-- Dave

TUESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER

Session Title:	Meta Data & Semantic Grid
			
1400 - 1420	The Metadata Model of the NERC Data Grid
1425 - 1445	BinX: A Tool for Retrieving, Searching and 
		Transforming Structured Data File		
1450 - 1510	A Semantic Grid for Molecular Science

Session Title:	Ontologies & Semantic Grid

1600 - 1620	The Gene Ontology Annotation Tool	
1625 - 1645	Towards the Semantic Grid: Enriching
		Content for Management and Reuse		
1650 - 1710	Semantic and Personalised Service Discovery

WEDNESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER

1030 - 1230	Semantic GRID Mini Workshop
		
THURSDAY 4 SEPTEMBER

1430 - 1530 	Keynote 3 - Tera-Flops, Peta-Bytes and 
		Exa-links: Bringing the Web to the web of 
		science -  Jim Hendler

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Semantic Grid Mini-Workshop
Chair: David De Roure
Wednesday 3rd September 2003 

The report "Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science
Infrastructure" was first circulated within the e-Science community in
July 2001. The subsequent two years have seen increasing activity in this
area, in the UK, Europe and US, including the formation of the Semantic
Grid Research Group at the Global Grid Forum and the recent funding of
several new projects under the JISC and EPSRC "Semantic Grid and Autonomic
Computing" programme. 

This workshop has two main goals: 

* Review - to take a look at where we are now, including an update on the
Semantic Grid aspects of the original e-Science projects which set out to
build "Semantic Grids". 

* Community Building - to provide the first opportunity in the UK for
researchers to get together from the many e-Science projects which relate
to the Semantic Grid. 

The featured projects include the three pilots which set out to explore
different aspects of the Semantic Grid: 

* MyGrid - the use of ontologies in the bioinformatics domain was already
established, and myGrid set out to build on this and also to apply
semantics within the service-oriented architecture.

* Geodise - developing information and knowledge grid aspects to
encapsulate
and exploit knowledge so that new engineering designs can be developed
more effectively. 

* Comb-e-Chem - applying Semantic Grid to automation, the "smart
laboratory" and in support of the notion of "publication at source", a new
model for scholarly communication in the chemistry field.

The workshop will include updates on the e-Science projects within the
Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRCs) which are also addressing
aspects of Semantic Grid, including the two projects in the Advanced
Knowledge Technologies IRC: CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge
Technologies in the Grid) and MIAKT (Grid enabled knowledge services:
collaborative problem solving environments in medical informatics). 

For the latest information on the workshop, and further information about
Semantic Grid activities, please see the Semantic Grid Community Portal
www.semanticgrid.org.