[SEM-GRD] Call for participation: Semantic Grid tutorial at Manchester (February 2007)

[Oscar Corcho]

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The University of Manchester (OntoGrid partner - http://www.ontogrid.eu/)
and the Information Management Group (http://img.cs.manchester.ac.uk/)
together with Bio-Health Informatics invite you to participate in a two-day
tutorial on Ontologies and Semantic Grid.

The goal of this tutorial is to provide the attendees with both the
theoretical foundations and hands-on experience of ontology design and
Semantic Grid middleware use. In particular, attendees will:

- Learn the basic principles of RDFS and OWL based ontologies;
- Gain hands-on experience with ontology development using the Protégé-OWL
tools;
- Learn the basic principles of the Semantic Grid and understand what
Semantic Grid architectures, such as S-OGSA, propose;
- Gain hands-on experience with Grid-compliant ontology access and metadata
management components, such as WS-DAIOnt-RDF(S) and the Semantic Binding
Service;
- Learn how to use these components to build applications.

The first day of the tutorial will provide a brief introduction to ontology
principles and languages, through to the use of ontology modelling tools.
The second day of the tutorial will guide you through the basic principles
of the Semantic Grid, and will then focus on the use of semantic
provisioning services in Grid middleware.

The tutorial will be held on the 15th and 16th of February 2007, in the
School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. There will be a
registration fee of 30 pounds to cover administrative and catering costs.

Due to the hands-on nature of the tutorial, places will be limited to 30
participants, who will be selected from all those who register, so we
recommend you to register as soon as possible here
(http://www.co-ode.org/events/tutorials/ontogrid02-2006/) and specify
clearly the reasons why you want to attend the tutorial. Registration
finishes on the 7th of January 2007 and participants will be notified about
their acceptance on the 12th of January 2007.

This tutorial is sponsored by the OntoGrid (http://www.ontogrid.eu/) and
CO-ODE (http://www.co-ode.org/) projects.



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Dr. Oscar Corcho
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Kilburn Building, Room 1.17
Oxford Road
Manchester (United Kingdom)
M13 9PL
Tel. +44 161 275 6821 (office)
     +44 7929 570 775 (mobile)
Fax. +44 161 275 6204
http://homepages.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~ocorcho/index.html
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