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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| 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 |
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| 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) |