[sem-grd] xmas round-up

[David De Roure]

Hello

I've had a message from Mark Linesch, GGF chair, asking area 
directors to pass on his thanks to all the GGF participants who 
dedicate their time and effort to our community.   I add my 
thanks to his!

Recent additions to the web site include the report on the 
Semantic Grid and Semantic Web discussion at the IST conference 
in the Hague.  There was also an article about this in EnterTheGrid.  
For those of you in Europe, the next IST event involving Semantic 
Grid is the workshop on 31 Jan and 1 Feb in Brussels.

We need to make some concrete plans for the next GGF in Korea.  
As these events partly have an outreach role, and this is 
particularly the case here as we are in Korea for the first 
time, I am keen to have some Semantic Grid activity at the event.  
We have previously discussed having a session on agents (or some 
aspects of agents) and the grid and I am hopeful that we can 
proceed along those lines.  We could do this as a regular Semantic 
Grid session, a BoF or an ad hoc meeting.  It would help me to 
know whom amongst you is planning to attend Korea?

For info, there's now an activity underway as part of the 
concertation activities between european grid projects, focusing 
on developing a grid resource description ontology.  Led by John 
Brooke in Manchester, this builds on a number of previous efforts 
in the community.  This is something we would perhaps like to see 
coming into GGF through the Semantic Grid Research group in the 
future.

We are in the process of creating some new material for the web
site, covering the IST Grid projects with a semantic dimension
that have started in the last few months.  This includes, for
example, the OntoGrid project.

In January I am planning to get together with Hai Zhuge, who leads 
the Knowledge Grid activity in China.  I'll report back on this.

All for now.  Have a good Christmas, and I look forward to
working with you to take Semantic Grid activities forward in 2005.

Regards

-- Dave