Re: [Obo-envo] Fwd: eEnvironment Terminology Workshop deadline extended

[Michael A. <ma...@ge...>]

Norman

I think we should care (answering Suzi). Have you looked at GEMET ?:  
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet

I wonder if we should perhaps send an email to Legat telling him what  
we are doing and why ?

Of course, this would be easier if we had a publication :=). Indeed,  
on my list of things "that Michael must do" is
"Write a paper on GAZ". If you did the same on ENVO, we could be  
twins. I think PLoS Comp Bio may be persuaded to
consider publishing these.

Michael
On 6 Oct 2008, at 17:02, Suzanna Lewis wrote:

> Should we care?
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Resent-From: pub...@w3...
>> From: Thomas Bandholtz <tba...@go...>
>> Date: October 5, 2008 1:29:20 AM PDT
>> To: pub...@w3...
>> Cc: Rudolf Legat <rud...@um...>
>> Subject: eEnvironment Terminology Workshop deadline extended
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the European Environmental Information community is currently
>> discovering Semantic Web technologies and, more specific, LOD.
>>
>> Environmental data consists of billions of measurement records which
>> may
>> be published in a LOD style and be linked to the environmental
>> terminology. This would be a huge use case to satisfy legal
>> reporting obligations of the EU member states.
>>
>> One of the milestones in this development will be the eEnvironment
>> Terminology Workshop of the European conference of the Czech
>> Presidency
>> of the Council of the EU "TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT", March 25-27 2009,
>> Prague, Czech Republic
>> http://www.e-envi2009.org/?workshops
>>
>> "Environmental terminology and its semantics constitute a major
>> building block of SEIS and SISE as important instruments for
>> discovery, understanding, and integration of any kind of accessible
>> information. They have already taken a long way starting with early
>> subject heading systems of the libraries, moving on to multilingual
>> thesauri such as GEMET, some of them evolving towards more
>> expressive ontologies.
>>
>> This workshop will present several domain-specific and
>> interdisciplinary examples and discuss common design issues such as
>> terminology structure models, cross-referencing, symmetric vs.
>> asymmetric multilingualism, identity and reference, publishing
>> terminology in the Web, and linking environmental data to such
>> published terminology."
>>
>> What's "SEIS" and "SISE"?
>>
>> The European Commission has recently decided on building a "Shared
>> Environmental Information System"(SEIS)
>> http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/index.htm
>> accompanied by a European research strategy "Towards a Single
>> Information Space for the Environment in Europe" (SISE)
>> http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/sustainable-growth/workshops_en.html
>> with a high awareness of explicit semantics.
>>
>> This was again one of the topics of the EnviroInfo conference in
>> September.
>> http://www.enviroinfo2008.org/detail_wednesday.php
>>
>> Those who are interested in contributing in these activities should
>> submit an abstract at
>> http://www.e-envi2009.org/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php before the
>> deadline Oct 31.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Thomas Bandholtz
>> innoQ.com
>> www.semantic-network.de
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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