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

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

To those attending the UK e-Science All Hands meeting this week,

The agenda for the Semantic Grid mini-workshop is below (and on 
the www.semanticgrid.org Web site - please check the Web site for 
the latest version).  

Taking advantage of the workshop format, the last part will be a
discussion on the subject of "Scholarly Publishing on the Semantic 
Grid" - the topic will be introduced by Peter Murray Rust.  The
issues of self-archiving, open journals and digital curation are
very hot topics just now and the plan is to take a look at these
from a Semantic Grid perspective.

I look forward to seeing you at the mini workshop

-- Dave

UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 2-4 September 2003, Nottingham UK.

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

Draft Agenda

      10.30 Introduction (David De Roure and Carole Goble)
      10.45 Geodise (Simon Cox)
      11.05 myGrid (Luc Moreau)
      11.25 Comb-e-Chem (Jeremy Frey)
      11.45 CoAKTinG (David De Roure)
      11.55 MIAKT (Srinandan Dasmahapatra)
      12.05 Discussion - Scholarly Communication on the Semantic Grid
            (Peter Murray-Rust)

Background

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

--
Prof David De Roure                        phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418
Grid and Pervasive Computing               fax   +44 (0)23 8059 2865
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton                  email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK                  http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/