Workshop participants - note that now that the workshop is over we'll be rearranging (not removing) the material in this site to support follow-up activities. This site will remained linked from the GCC site.
This interest group was created in the sequence of the the semantic web workshop organized at Rice University by the Gulf Coast Consortia June 4-5, 2009.
If you would like to join in and edit the contents of this resource please drop Jonas an email at jalmeida@mathbiol.org.
The dictum "I hear and I forget, I see and I believe, I do and I understand" drives the organization of this workshop on the Semantic Web. This two day event articulate 4 half-day modules where key technologies are described. This is presented in the context of their formulation and, most important, the participants are guided in the the use of those tools on their own personal computers, applying them to both reference datasets and their own data.
1. Schedule - The workshop will run between 9 am and 4 pm June 4-5 at Rice University's Duncan Hall. Breakfast and check-in registration start at 8 am in the main foyer called Martel Hall. The facilities will open at 8 am. 2. Parking is available in visitor’s lots: (1) the Founder’s Court Lot between entrances 2 and 3 or (2) the North Lot annex between entrances 18 and 20 (Rice map). The campus and Duncan Hall are also within walking distance of the MetroRail stop at Herman Park/Rice U. Shuttles are available from the Texas Medical Center to Rice University (shuttle map and schedule). More information about location:
3. The workshop will be very interactive with the material being constantly edited and updated in response to your questions and participation. Accordingly, we will need an authentication system to let you use workshop resources. We will be using Google Authentication, which you can activate by either creating a Google account (if you don't have one already), or by associating a Google password with your email at https://www.google.com/accounts/. 4. During the workshop itself we'll be using a wiki and a text feed. The starting point for this interactivity is the text feed at http://friendfeed.com/gcc. Please get acquainted with it. 5. Now we know you were planning on bringing laptops all along. Please do, a wireless network will be in place for you. History / contextParticipants in the recent GCC futures meeting on personalized medicine“Rate-limiting Factors in Delivering the Promise” recognized semantic web (SW) technology as a potentially critical enabler of personalized medicine. For close to a decade now, the emergence of semantic web technologies has been object of careful design and regulation by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C), the same entity that regulates the current version of the web. The biggest challenge and highest benefit are found in applications to the Life Sciences where heterogeneity and need for automated discovery are defining characteristics. At the previous GCC futures meeting, several participants called for a hands-on workshop to teach new technologies and underlying scientific challenges. A few groups in the Texas Medical Center are active participants in the development of SW technology so this was also seen as an opportunity to capitalize on local expertise, promote collaboration and to expose that community to the latest work ongoing at SW research centers such as W3C and MIT. Finally, this ensemble creates unique opportunities to recruit new students into a field that is already recognized as critical role for systematic approaches to biomedical research. Accordingly, the workshop is structured as a succession of introductory modules, hands-on experimentation, and group discussion of challenges and merits.
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