FOAF Galway Programme outline

Preliminary agenda (expanded notes on themes below)

1 Sept 2004

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Logistics and Introduction (Dan Brickley)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Linking Semantically-Enabled Online Community - Sites Andreas Harth, John G. Breslin, Ina O'Murchu, Stefan Decker
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup - Harith Alani, Simon Cox, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
A model of trust and anonymity in a content rating system for e-learning systems - Tom Croucher
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM
FOAF and vocabs: (Danbri intro)
11:45 AM - 12:00
Ontological Consideration on Human Relationship Vocabulary for FOAF - Yutaka Matsuo, Masahiro Hamasaki, Junichiro Mori, Hideaki Takeda, Koiti Hasida
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Bootstrapping the FOAF-Web: An Experiment in Social Network Mining - Peter Mika
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
Semantic Planet Position Paper Ian Davis, James Carlyle
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
intro to breakout sessions (stefan)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Breakout session
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
breakout session
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
breakout report back
5:00 PM - 5:10 PM
Close/logistics
5:15 PM - 6:10 PM
demos (in a room)
7:45 PM - 12:00
Workshop Dinner (travel by coach - see site for details)

2 Sept 2004

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Logistics
9:05 AM - 9:35 AM
"I want my data back" - Technical and Privacy Challenges for Integrating FOAF into Existing Applications - Joseph Smarr (Plaxo)
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM
"I want my data back" - Marc Canter on Foafnet
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
"I want my data back" - panel: Julian Bond, Marc Canter, Joseph Smarr, Andreas Harth, Timothy Falconer, Dan Brickley (moderator)
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Coffee break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Keyword Extraction from the Web for FOAF Metadata - Junichiro Mori, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Boi Faltings
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Moleskiing: a Trust-aware Decentralized Recommender System - Paolo Avesani, Paolo Massa, Roberto Tiella
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
The Challenges of FOAF Characterization - John C. Paolillo and Elijah Wright
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
The People's Portal: Ontology Management on Community Portals - Anna V. Zhdanova
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Breakout Session
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Breakout report back
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Open discussion of priorities for FOAF project, standards work, research and industry

"I want my data back" - perspectives from large scale hosting services

For example:

Single sign on, privacy and standardised service interfaces.

This will be a technical discussion, including for example

Practical Semantic Web: tools, techniques, priorities for collaboration, research funders, standardisation

For example:

Machine Learning, data mining, implicit and explicit metadata, evidence

Trust - who do you believe (and why?)

including recommendations/ratings/annotations

Applications, ideas and demos

many short presentations spread over the two days

Beyond FOAF core: combining Semantic Web application vocabularies

for example:

goal: navigating the tradeoffs between stable/predictable and rich/extensible, in an environment where no single application or use case drives the design(s), and in which multiple vocabularies can be used together but developed separately.