Upcoming
Nov. 11 - 15:
ISWC, Boston,
MA.
Relatively Recent History
2012
October 16, 17:
EarthCube
NextGen Workshop.
Word
.
September 30, 31:
Exploring
Taxon Concepts Advisory Board meeeting. NLP; logic;
entropy - much good will come from this.
August 9 - 12:
Educating for
Sustainable Happiness Great event at an excellent
school. I will post my
bug hunt slides soon.
July 22 - 26:
AAAI
If you have 45 minutes, do yourself a favour and watch
Christos
Papadimitrou's moving and personal Turing lecture on
Darwin and Turing, and the parallels in their thinking. If you
have another hour watch
Judea
Pearl's mindblowing ACM Turing Award lecture, and let me
know if you agree with his claim that counterfactuals are the
building blocks of scientific thought, free will, and moral
behaviour.
July 10, 11:
iEvoBio There were many
excellent talks, e.g. Rob Beiko's lightning talk on
biomonitoring
2.0, and Hilmar Lapp's
call
to arms
June 12 - 14 :
EarthCube
charrette I met Robert Hazen, who claims the whole
bio/geo distinction is just an ism/schism game; I highly
recommend his books.
May 16 - 18:
Semantics
of Biodiversity We got brainwashed by Barry Smith. John Deck assembled an excellent
use-case repository .
2011
October:
TDWG
We kicked off the
RDF Best Practices
task group.
June:
iEvoBio Here are
the
notes
from our triple BoF.
2010
October:
TDWG
The
TechnoBioblitz,
what
I learned there, and
one
way of representing it in RDF.
Ancient History
2009
Nov. 9-13:
TDWG
Oct. 25-29:
ISWC
When I first proposed a panel on "Does the Semantic Web Need
Ontologies?", the organizing committee was afraid that I
wouldn't be able to find panelists who would say yes. It turns
out that none of the panelists said no (at least not strongly
enough for
David
Karger).
June 1-3:
eBiosphere
Enter
the
Challenge.
May 8-9:
SciBarCamp
(Toronto).
March 19:
Stanley
Jordan at
Blues
Alley. Hands-down highlight of my NSF review panel.
March 2-5:
Practical
Semantic Astronomy.
Jan. 5-9: UC Davis
Information
Center
for the Environment. Publishing "Biological Inverntories
of the World's Protected Areas" as linked data.
What a hornet's nest.
2008
Oct. 25-30:
ISWC
08. John Giannandrea's keynote argued the case for
"schema last".
Oct. 19-24:
TDWG
08. I got stung by a jellyfish!
Sept. 11-12 :
AISL
kickoff. As it turns out, the intelligence and
biodiversity communities share several problems. For example,
the locations of protected species are important to a range of
reseachers, and should be disseminated as widely as possible
in the scientific and conservation communities. But the data
is highly sensitive, and must not fall into the wrong hands
(specimen collectors, unscrupulous developers, etc.)
July 20 : The
Bio-Ontologies SIG
at
ISMB in
Toronto. I still don't get their beef with
multiple inheritance.
April 16 : Kenny Werner
trio at Blues Alley. An amazing show.
April 8-10 :
Intergovernmental/Inter-agency
Cooperation
on Ecoinformatics, Research Triangle Park, NC. More
biodiversity content and focus than in previous meetings of
this group.
SciBarCamp (March 15, 16)
was amazing. I posted about it
here
and
here.
Here
are slides from updates on SPIRE that I gave at NBII, and EPA.
Microsoft may eventually post my
semantic
eco-blogging demo from their
2007 e-science
workhop in Chappel Hill. The night before the meeting, I
saw living legend
Randy
Weston at Duke University's Page Auditorium.
Some Publications
Joel Sachs and Tim Finin
.,
Social
and Semantic Computing in Support of Citizen Science,
Proceedings
of the Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, August
2011.
Joel Sachs
and Tim Finin,
What
Does it Mean for a URI to Resolve?,
Proceedings of
the AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial
Intelligence, March 2010
Lushan Han et al.,
RDF123:
from
Spreadsheets to RDF, Seventh International Semantic Web
Conference, October 2008
Andriy Parafiynyk
et
al.,
Adding
Semantics
to Social Websites for Citizen Science,
Proceedings
of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June
2007
Hoban, S., J. Keating, J. Sachs, D. Laughlin & Y. Yesha,
2002.
Suresh, R., J. Sachs, R. Pfister, J. Behnke, 2001, "Content
Based Metadata Systems: A Workbench to Prototype Data Mining
Concepts",
Joel Sachs and Olga Streltchenko, 1998, "Data Mining the
SurfandBuy Virtual Mall",