Subject: Invitation to join NeSC workshop in Edinburgh -- SOON! Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: Bertram Ludaescher Resent-To: Ewa Deelman , Luc Moreau , Tom Oinn , Yolanda Gil , Mark Ellisman , "Jeffrey S. Grethe" , Matthew Addis , Karon Mee , markg@cs.man.ac.uk, carole@cs.man.ac.uk, cwroe@cs.man.ac.uk, SEEK Executive Council , Jessie Kennedy Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:03:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Bertram Ludaescher To: Ewa Deelman , Luc Moreau , Tom Oinn , Yolanda Gil , Mark Ellisman , "Jeffrey S. Grethe" , Matthew Addis , Karon Mee CC: markg@cs.man.ac.uk, carole@cs.man.ac.uk, cwroe@cs.man.ac.uk, SEEK Executive Council , Jessie Kennedy (sorry, for sending this twice -- the subject line was wrong. Also a good thing can be said more than once, right? ;-) Dear colleagues: In case you haven't heard already, I would like to bring to your attention and invite you to the meeting on eScience GRID Environments at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/292/ Specifically, I would like to invite participants of the "Link-Up project" to attend, as well as other friendly "e-Science sisters folks" ;-) Note that this three day meeting (May 12-14th) will be right after a SEEK technical meeting also in Edinburgh from May 9-11th, hence lots of SEEK technical folks will be around. Thus, if you join the e-Science meeting May 12-14th you will have excellent opportunities for in-depth discussions and link-up on semantic data integration and scientific workflows. You can see the (still somewhat preliminary) agenda at the above URL. Also, you SHOULD REGISTER ASAP (see towards the bottom of that page), if you plan to attend. The high-level outline of the meeting is as follows: ========= Wed May 13th =============================================== -- SESSION I (all day): TAXONOMIC CONCEPT STANDARDS co-chairs: Jessie Kennedy (SEEK), Frank Bisby (Biodiversity World) -- SESSION II (all day): SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS co-chairs: Matt Jones (SEEK), NN? (e-Science) REMARK. Session II will be particularly interesting for linking up the various scientific workflow activities (Kepler, Taverna, Triana, ...) ========= Thu May 14th =============================================== -- TUTORIALS (all day): OGSAI-DAI and MyGrid This will include "hands on" parts as well. Another reason for registering ASAP, is that our e-Science colleagues need a head count for this. ========= Fri May 14th ============================================== -- SESSION I (all day): SEMANTIC DATA INTEGRATION co-chairs: Bertram Ludaescher (SEEK), Chris Wroe(MyGrid) -- SESSION II (all day): GRID TECHNOLOGIES co-chairs: Arcot Rajasekar (SEEK), Paul Watson (North East eScience Centre) REMARK. Session II will provide another link-up opportunity between US and UK e-Science folks, e.g., on inspecting, extending, and making interoperable the current approaches to semantic mediation (supported ontology languages, reasoning services, semantic data registration, etc.) This session will also be of interest for attendees of Session II on Scientific Workflows -- both issues are quite closely related. Please don't hesistate to contact me if you have any additional questions. hoping to see you in Edinburgh soon Bertram PS please feel free to forward this invitations to other members in your group(s) if you cannot come yourself -- Bertram Ludaescher http://www.sdsc.edu/~ludaesch KBIS Lab Director, Data & Knowledge Systems, SDSC http://kbis.sdsc.edu Adj Asst Professor, Computer Science & Engineering ph: +1 (858) 822-0864 University of California, San Diego fax: +1 (858) 534-5113