AOS Workshop
University of Florida, Norman Hall Room G520
May 9 - 10, 2002

Final Agenda

If you are interested in attending this workshop, send email to Dr. Howard Beck by May 5 at the very latest.
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Participants
Travel & Accommodation

Thursday May 9
19:00-19:30 Welcome and Introductions (Howard Beck)
9:30 Introduction to AOS (Johannes Keizer)
10:30 Break
10:45-12:00 Overview of formal languages for ontologies, including RDF, Topic Maps, DAML, and OIL. Examples (Howard Beck)
1:30 CIAT: A valuable information source for agricultural ontologies (Mariano Mejia)
2:00 SIDALC: Use of ontologies in the information units (Marta Abarca)
2:30 Integrating Multiple Sources for a Federated thesaurus
for the Cornell Genomics Initiative
(Jon Corson-Rikert)
3:00 Implementing the NAL Thesaurus as a Web Service for AgriNIC (Tim Lynch)
3:30 Break
3:45 Extracting Metadata from Technical Documents in ASAE (Bill Chancellor)
4:15 A User Interface to Information on Coffee using Agrovoc (Jose Braga)
4:45 An Experimental Ontology on BioTerrorism (Damon Austin)

Friday May 10

9:00 Fisheries Ontology AOS Prototype (Johannes Keizer)
9:30 Crop-Pest Ontology AOS Prototype (Howard Beck)
10:00 AOS Prototype (Floor Verdenius)
10:30 Break
10:45 AOS Prototype (Raphael Volz)
11:15-12:00 Discussion of Techniques Used in Prototypes (General)
1:30-4:00 Discussion of Topics, Business meeting, Plans for Next Steps (General)
6pm Workshop Dinner/Party in Micanopy Florida (Hosted by Howard and Barbara Beck)