Fifth Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop
27 - 29 April 2004, Beijing, China
The Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) workshops
bring together metadata and ontology experts and researchers interested
in the AOS project. The fifth AOS Workshop builds on the successes of
previous workshops held in Rome, Oxford, Florida, and Copenhagen. The fifth AOS workshop will provide an opportunity
for information management specialists in Asia to learn about the AOS
and to strengthen partnerships in building the AOS.
The workshop will focus on:
• Sharing new developments in the field of metadata and ontology,
• Finding out how to leverage these developments in practice in agricultural
information management.
The AOS workshop is organized by: the Scientech
Documentation and Information Center of Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences (SDIC/CAAS), China and the Library and Documentation Systems
Division of FAO.
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The AOS workshop will consist of Tutorials and Paper
Presentation Sessions
Tutorials
• Basics of Ontology
• Ontology Tools
Sessions
• From Thesauri to Ontologies - This session
focuses on migrating from thesauri to ontologies in the context of interoperability
and web application developments. It will introduce structural differences
between the two, interchange format issues and point out the advantages
of such a move. Moreover, the vision and structure of the planned AOS
concept server and its first achieved milestones and experimental results
will be presented.
• Automatic translation using semantic knowledge - Terminological
consistency, meaning, the use of the same term in the same sense all the
time is the prerequisite for successful automatic translation of documents.
This session focus on the role of domain-ontologies in multilingual natural
language processing.
• Metadata schemas - Ontologies provide formalized semantics
of objects and their relations to each other. Metadata schemas and ontologies
are very closely related. This session focuses on the role of metadata
its relation to Ontologies and the Semantic Web.
• The use of semantics to enhance access to domain knowledge
- This session provides illustrations of applications and application
prototypes that exploit semantic information encoded in such resources
as documents, thesauri, and ontologies. The objective is to provide concrete
examples and methodologies that can eventually be extended to the development
of live applications used in and for information management.
Anyone who wants to contribute to the outlined sessions
should contact the workshop organizers (Johannes.Keizer@fao.org).
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Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Wednesday, 28 April 2004
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Thursday, 29 April 2004
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Registration
at the
Friendship Hotel |
8:00-9:10
Registration
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8:30-9:30
Introductory Speeches
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8:30-10:00
Session 4
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9:10-10:00
Opening Ceremony and Welcome Speeches
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9:30-10:00
Coffee Break
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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
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10:00-12:00
Session 1
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10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
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10:30-12:00
Tutorial 1
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10:30-11:30
Session 4
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11:30-12:00
Discussion and Workshop Wrap-Up
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12:00-13:30
Lunch
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12:00-13:30
Lunch
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12:00 on wards
Lunch and Sightseeing Program
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13:30-15:00
Tutorial 2
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13:30-15:00
Session 2
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15:00-15:30
Coffee break
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15:00-15:30
Coffee break
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15:30-17:00
Tutorial 2
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15:30-17:00
Session 3
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18:00 on wards
Welcome Banquet
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18:00 on wards
Dinner
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Tuesday, 27 April 2004
| 08:00 - 09:10 |
Registration
Registration First Floor of Beijing Science Hall at the Friendship
Hotel, Beijing |
| 09:10 - 10:00 |
Opening Ceremony and Welcome Speeches
Chair:Dr. Meng Xianxue, Deputy Director-General of
SDIC/CAAS
Welcome Speeches:
Dr. Xu Shiwei, Director-General of SDIC/CAAS (10min)
Mr. Gamal M. Ahmed, FAO Representative in Beijing
(10min)
Dr. Liang Qu, Director-General, Department of International
Cooperation, CAAS(10min)
Dr. Johannes Keizer, Information Systems Officer,
GILW, FAO (10min) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Tutorial 1 : Ontologies - What
are they all about? [ppt]
• The origin of Ontology
• Definitions of Ontology
• Ontology development life cycle
• Ontology representation languages
• Examples of ontologies
• Benefits of ontologies
• Application areas of ontologies
• Types of ontologies
• Similarities and Differences between Ontologies and Thesauri
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| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Tutorial 2 : Ontology Tools [ppt]
• Introduction to currently available "most popular" tools.
• Guided tour through KAON
• Introduction to the concept of logical URIs
• Creating concepts and relationships among concepts
• Creating a lexicon
• Creating instances
• Introduction to meta-modelling
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Tutorial 2 : Ontology Tools (Cont.)
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| 18:00 onward |
Welcome Banquet |
Wednesday, 28 April 2004
| 8:30 - 9:30 |
Introductory Speeches
• AOS Initiative to Create a Network for theCooperative Management
of Semantic Standards - Johannes Keizer [ppt]
• Better Access to Agricultural Information in China : The Role
of the Agricultural Ontology Service Project - Chang Chun [ppt]
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Session 1 : From thesauri to ontologies
• Conceptual Analysis of the Ontological Service Structure for CSDL-
Zhang Xiaolin [ppt]
• Building a Rich Ontology from AGROVOC: Why and How - Dagobert
Soergl [ppt]
• From Agricultural Thesauri to Ontologies - Chang Chun [ppt]
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| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 2 : Automatic translation using semantic knowledge
• The Development of Phrase-Based T2E Active Reading via Web -
Asanee Kawtrakul [ppt]
• The Impact of Standardized Terminologies and Domain Ontologies
in Multilingual Information Processing - Md. Maruf Hasan [ppt]
• Combining Terminologies and Ontologies to Integrate Biomedical
Information - Anita Burgun [ppt]
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 17:00 |
Session 3 : Metadata schemas
• Ontology-based Metadata Schema for Chinese Digital Libraries
- Lai Maosheng [ppt]
• PEDRO: A tool to build an application that creates data entry
forms based on a data model written in a particular style of XML
Schema - Kevin Garwood [ppt]
• Construction of a Knowledge Database for Automatic Indexing and
Classifying Based on the Chinese Library Classification - Hou Hanqing
[ppt]
• AOS and the Online Agricultural Information Service in Guangdong
China - Liang Huang [ppt]
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| 18:00 onward |
Dinner and Social Activities |
Thursday, 29 April 2004
| 08:30 - 10:00 |
Session 4 : The use of semantics
to enhance access to domain knowledge (Session Chair: Howard Beck)
• An Intelligent Retrieval System for Chinese Agricultural Scientific
Literature - Qian Ping [ppt]
• Description Logics as Databases for Structuring Agricultural Information
Systems - Howard Beck [ppt]
• OntoEdu: Ontology-Based Education Grid System for e-Learning -
Cui Guangzuo [ppt]
• Using the Thai AGROVOC for Retrieval of Thai Agricultural Information
- Aree Thunkijjanukij [ppt]
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Session 4 : The use of semantics
to enhance access to domain knowledge (Cont.)
• Next-Generation Knowledge Management for Multilingual Agricultural
Information - Asanee Kawtrakul [ppt]
• Building Domain Ontologies and Developing an Agricultural Retrieval
System Based on DO --Modeling Floriculture ontology (FO) - Li Jing
[ppt]
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Discussion and Workshop Wrap-Up |
| 12:00 onward |
Lunch and Sightseeing Programme
- Visit to the Great Wall |
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If you would like to take part in AOS Workshop,
please include the information below in an email message to changc@mail.caas.net.cn and include
"AOS Workshop Registration" in the Subject header.
• Name:
• Email Address:
• Organization:
• Your Position/Role:
• Telephone #:
• Fax #:
The registration desk for on-site registration will
be at the Friendship Hotel. Participants are expected to register at the
registration desk, and to pick up meeting materials, confirm reservations,
etc. All participants who have made reservations and have paid deposits
for the post-conference tour must confirm their tour routes at the Travel
Desk at the Friendship Hotel.
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Accommodation will be reserved by the Organizing
Committee at specially reduced prices. Participants will check in and
take care of their own expenses.
Hotel: Friendship Hotel
Rates: King-size (Single): US$65/night (Double):US$ 65/night. (Rates include
the city construction fee.)
Hotel address: No. 1 Zhongguancun South Avenue, Haidian District, Beijing
100873, China
Tel: 0086-10-68498080
Fax: 0086-10-68498825
Web site: Friendship Hotel
The hotel has a permanent reception desk at the
exit of Beijing Airport.
NOTE: You must mention that you
are attending the AOS workshop to get the above mentioned discounted rate.
Free transportation is provided from Beijing Airport
to the Friendship Hotel. If the participant fails to meet our staff, he/she
can take a taxi or airport bus: a taxi service is available at the Airport
for the Friendship Hotel. The cost is about US$15 or RMB 120 Yuan depending
on type of taxi taken. The airport bus service is available every hour;
the cost is about US$2 or RMB 16 Yuan.
Duration of journey: approx. 40 minutes Click here for a detailed map of the hotel
location.
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| Anita Burgun |
University of Rennes, France |
| Anita Liang |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy |
| Aree Thunkijjanukij |
Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Asanee Kawtrakul |
Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Aurawan Imsombut |
Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Boris Lauser |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy |
| Chang Chun |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC),CAAS,China |
| Cui Guangzuo |
Modern Education Technology Center, Peking University,China |
| Dagobert Soergel |
Maryland University, USA |
| Elizabeth Dodsworth |
CABI Publishing, UK |
| Fan Jing |
Graduate Department,Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information
Center(CDSTIC), China |
| Fu Honghu |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Gauri Salokhe |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy |
| Gong Changming |
Library, Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Center(CDSTIC),
China |
| He Jianxi |
Nanjing Agricultural University, China |
| Hou Hanqing |
Nanjing Agricultural University, China |
| Howard Beck |
University of Florida, USA |
| Hu Chuling |
The computer & Language Information Engineering Research Center,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Hu Qiongjing |
Graduate Department,Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information
Center(CDSTIC), China |
| Huang Heyan |
The computer & Language Information Engineering Research Center,Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China |
| Intiraporn Mulasatra |
Kasetsart University, Thailand |
| Johannes Keizer |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
Italy |
| Kevin Garwood |
Manchester University, UK |
| Lai Maosheng |
Information Department of Peking University, China |
| Li Jing |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Li Sijing |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC),CAAS,China |
| Li Yu |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Liang Na |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Liang Zhanping |
Chinese Information Institute of Science and Technique, China |
| Lu Wenlin |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC), CAAS, China |
| Mao Jun |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Margherita Sini |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
Italy |
| Md Maruf Hasan |
NICT Asia Research Center, Thailand |
| Mei Fangquan |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC), CAAS,China
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| Meng Xianxue |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC), CAAS, China
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| Qian Ping |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC), CAAS, China
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| Roger A. Mills |
Oxford University Library Services, UK |
| Song Jiping |
The computer & Language Information Engineering Research Center,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Song Lizhe |
Beijing Institute of Technology, China |
| Sri Wahyuni (Yuni) Soeripto |
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia |
| Tang Aimin |
Graduate Department,Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information
Center(CDSTIC), China |
| Tang Shanhong |
Library, Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Center(CDSTIC),
China |
| Wang Fang |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Wang Xin |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Wang Zhong |
Institute of Sci-Tech Information Guangdong Academy of Agricultural
Sciences, China |
| Wu Zhuyu |
Information Department of Peking University, China |
| Xu Shiwei |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC), CAAS, China
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| Yang Xiudan |
Information Department of Peking University, China |
| Zhang Chunhui |
Library of Guangzhou First Surgeon University, China |
| Zhang Li |
Scientech Documentation and Information Center (SDIC),CAAS,China
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| Zhang Xiaolin |
Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences,China |
| Zhen Zhen |
Library of China Defense Science Technique Information Center,
China |
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Identity
Badge
During the workshop, all participants are required
to wear the identity badges issued by the workshop which serve as a pass
for the opening & closing ceremonies, working groups, welcome &
farewell banquet, social event and local visit to the Great Wall. Meals
Lunches and dinners will be provided during the
workshop; breakfast will be available at the hotels where participants
are booked. Wear your identity badge to the dining rooms.
Trips
A Post-workshop tour can be arranged: participants
are invited to contact the Travel Desk for more information. All tours
are at the participant's expense.
Currency and Payments
The currency used in China is Renminbi Yuan (RMB
). The exchange rate between USD and RMB at present is about one USD for
RMB 8.28 Yuan. Cash is available at the exchange office.
Weather
Average temperatures during the period of the
workshop are expected to be around 25-30 C during the day and 20-25 C
at night.
Medical Care and First Aid
If First Aid or medical care services are needed,
please contact the secretariat. The secretariat will send those who need
emergency care to Beijing Haidian Hospital, but medical fees will be borne
by the patients.
Insurance
The conference organizers cannot accept liability
for personal injuries sustained, or for loss of, or damage to, property
belonging to workshop participants, either during or as a result of the
workshop. Please check the validity of your own insurance.
Ticket Services
There is a ticket agency for airline and train
reservations services at the reception of Friendship Hotel. Participants
can reconfirm or book their ticket there.
Long Distance Telephone Calls
Costs related to domestic and international long
distance phone calls should be covered by participants themselves. If
there is a need to make domestic or international long distance phone
calls, please go to the front desk of hotel for information.
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The workshop is jointly organised
by the Scientech Documentation and Information Center of Chinese Academy
of Agricultural Sciences (SDIC/CAAS), China and the Library and Documentation
Systems Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The workshop
will take place at the Friendship Hotel.
Contact Persons
Dr Johannes Keizer Johannes.Keizer@fao.org
and
Mr Chang Chun changc@mail.caas.net.cn
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