SwigAtTp2006Announce

There will be a :

Semantic Web Interest Group open meeting at W3C Technical Plenary Thursday, 2nd March, Cannes Mandelieu, France. Agenda : below

As Dan Brickley said in his pre-announcement [1], the SWIG is a fairly informal public group, the closest we have to a membership list is subscription to semantic-web@w3.org. (Dan's the chair of SWIG but won't be available, so I'm standing in). The meeting won't be restricted to W3C Members, but we would like to know in advance who will attending for room logistics etc. We don't yet have the web forms set up for this, details will follow as soon as they are are available.

The meeting will be a mix of short and medium-length talks/presentations plus some very short lightning talks, along with some open discussion. There's a snapshot of the provisional agenda below. The lightning talks have proved interesting, useful and fun in previous years. So if anyone would like to present something, anything, but *very quickly*, please let me know. Right now the agenda says "max. 10 minutes", if we get a few more of these that time slot will have to narrow, and the challenge goes up...

** Agenda ***

9.00-9.30 Welcome and Introductions 9.30-10.00 "DBin: an all round Semantic Web platform for user communities" - Giovanni Tummarello 10.00-10.30 "Trust RDF to describe Web content?" - Phil Archer (content label XG)

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-11.20 Health Care and Life Sciences IG intro 11.20-12.00 Lightning talks (max 10 mins each)

Cristian Morbidoni - "Semantic Web for the Humanities: RDF and OWL for Textual Encoding"
Michele Nucci - "Cooperative Semantic Web geotagging tools The Eclipse SW Map/GEarth"
Danny Ayers - Atom/OWL
Reto Bachmann-Gmuer : rdf-diff/rdf-patch
Tim Berners-Lee : "Browsable data"

12.00-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.30 "GRDDL" - Dan Connolly (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages - getting RDF data out of XML and XHTML documents, e.g. microformats, using explicitly associated transformation algorithms, typically represented in XSLT)

3.30-4.00 Coffee

4.00-4.40 "WSDL RDF mapping" and "Semantic annotations for WSDL" - Jacek Kopecky 4.40-5.00 Open discussion/lightning talks - topics : seee Wiki

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The agenda may change between now and the event, the current version can be found on the ESW Wiki at :

http://esw.w3.org/topic/SwigAtTp2006

Hotel, transport information etc. can be found on the page for the entire Tech Plenary meeting :

http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html

Local organizers:

   W3C Europe/ERCIM Sophia Antipolis

Meeting location:

   Royal Hotel Casino
   605 avenue du Général de Gaulle
   06210 Mandelieu la Napoule
   Tel : +33 (0)4 92 97 70 00
   Fax : +33 (0)4 93 49 51 50

Any other queries or suggestions please feel free to contact me on/off-list as appropriate.

Thanks, Danny.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2006Jan/0241.html