Presentations and Talks 

Delivered an Invited Talk on "Linked Data Technology and glimpses of Applications in Libraries" in the National Conference on Global Trends in Libraries & Librarianship (KCLACON2024), NEHRU Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, Kerala, May 23-25, 2024, organized by College Librarians' Association Kerala in collaboration with Kerala State Higher Education Council Kerala (May 24, 2024, talk delivered virtually). 

Delivered two Invited Talks on "Linked Data for Libraries" and "Ontology and Knowledge Graph" in the Refresher Course on  "Online Refresher Course in Library and Information Science (12-02-2024 to 26-02-2024)" organized by the UGC-Malaviya Mission Teacher Training, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharastra (February 16, 2024).  

Delivered an Invited Talk on "Library and Linked Data" in the Refresher Course on "Recent Trends and Technologies in LIS Education and Services (August 24 - September 6, 2023)" organized by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Dr. Hairsingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (May 31, 2022, Virtual). 

Presented the research on “TOWARDS STANDARDIZING THE LIBRARY CIRCULATION DATA” at the 17th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, 25th - 27th October 2023. (25th October 2024, virtual). 

Delivered an Invited Lecture on "Learning Management System" and a practical session on "Moodle LMS (Hands-on)" in AIU–Academic and Administrative Development Centre (AIU-AADC) "Advanced Training Programme (ATP) on Open Source Software for Teaching and Research (21st – 26th August 2023)," Berhampur University, Odisha on August 22 and 23, 2023 (Virtual). 

Presented a research paper on "SAGE: a Semantic Annotator for knowledge Graph Exploration" at ASIS&T Mid-Year Conference “Expanding Horizons of Information Science and Technology and Beyond” on April 11, 2023 (April 11-13, 2023, Virtual). 

Presented a research paper on "Finding closeness between EHRMDS and Open-source electronic health record systems: an analytical approach" at 16th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2022) on November 8, 2022 (November 7-11, 2022, University College London, UK). 

Delivered a half-day seminar on "Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies used in library technical services", organized by Indian Institute Management Bangalore (IIMB) (August 12, 2022). 

Delivered an Invited Talk on "Foundations of Semantic Web and Technologies" in the Refresher Course on Digital Transformation of Library Science Education and Services (May 26 - June 8, 2022)" organized by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (May 31, 2022). 

Delivered Invited Talks as an expert panellist in Library Technology Conclave (LT2022, April 28 - 30, 2022), in two thematic sessions: Infrastructure for RDM  and Data Governance, Data Sharing, and Reuse (April 29, 2022, Mumbai, India). 

Delivered an Invited Talk on "CODO: an integrated framework for collection and analysis of COVID-19 data" at IIIT Delhi, Delhi (April 20, 2022).  

Delivered an Invited Talk on "CODO: an ontology for collection and analysis of multiparadigm COVID-19 data" at the Ontology Summit 2022 session on Knowledge Graph Approach to Combat COVID-19 (March 9, 2022). Slides and lecture recordings are available from  https://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2022_03_09

Delivered an Invited Talk on "Levering Narrative for Knowledge Graph in Medicine"at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy (November 17, 2021). 

Delivered an invited talk on "Knowledge graph for combating COVID-19, the case of CODO initiative" at the Winter School 2021, organized by 2nd Indo-US Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC-2021, 15-18 November 2021) on 15 November 2021. 

Delivered a lecture on "Discover the Ontologies and Vocabularies using MOD Ontology" at AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP Workshop "Semantic Intelligence: The Way Forward with Artificial Intelligence," National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra (21 - 25 July 2021) on July 22, 2021 (virtual). 

Delivered a lecture on "CODO Knowledge graph for combating the pandemic COVID-19" at AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP Workshop "Semantic Intelligence: The Way Forward with Artificial Intelligence," National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra (1 - 5 July 2021) on July 2, 2021 (virtual). 

Delivered lectures on "(1) Introduction to Semantic Web, (2) Introduction to Ontology Editors, (3) Ontology Development and validation, Ontology Documentation, (4) Knowledge Graph and Linked Data for Digital Transformation, (5) Data Integration, Publication, Access, and Visualization, (6) Data Integration: Transforming Spreadsheet Data into a Knowledge Graph, (7) Data Integration and Visualization", and (8) Ontology Documentation (using Widoco) at the Int. Workshop on Semantic Techniques and Technologies for Data and Knowledge Representation (SemTech2020), Bangalore, 22 - 26 February 2021 (virtual). 

Delivered lectures on "(1) Ontology Editors, Protégé installation (Demo); (2) Ontology Development (Demo); (3) Searching an Ontology: Introduction to SPARQL; and (4) SPARQL (Demo)" at the Workshop on Ontology Karnataka State Women’s University, Vijayapura,  Karnataka, January 4-8, 2021 (Virtual) 

Delivered a talk on "CODO: an ontology for collection and analysis of COVID-19 data" at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2020) on 4th November 2020 (KEOD 2020, 2-4 November 2020, Lisboa, Portugal (Virtual Conf. collocated with 13th IC3K 2020)). 

Delivered an Invited talk on "CODO: an Ontology to Capture Data on the COVID Pandemic" at the Workshop on COVID-19 Ontologies 2020 (WCO 2020), Ann Arbor, MI, United States, October 23, 2020 (virtual). 

Delivered an Invited talk on "Knowledge Graph: a weapon to fight against the pandemic COVID-19" organized by the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Italy on 23 September 2020. 

Delivered an Invited talk on "Knowledge Graph driven Smart Learning Environment" in the One Day National Webinar on “Teaching in Pandemic Environment” organized by Jadavpur University in collaboration with Universal Briefing, Kolkata (INDIA) on 19 September 2020. 

Delivered a special lecture on "Futuristic e-Leaning: a Knowledge Graph driven learning environment" at the Workshop on "Learning Content Management System" organized by PG Department of Geography & English of Cooch Behar College (2-8 Sep. 2020) on 2nd September 2020. 

Delivered a Webinar on "Knowledge Graph and the current pandemic COVID-19," organized by University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) of Bangalore University, Bangalore on 27th August 2020. 

Delivered a talk on "MOD: A New Generation Metadata Towards FAIR Knowledge Artifacts" at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento, Italy on 5th December 2019. 

Delivered a talk presenting the working progress of "Ontology Metadata" Task Group of RDA Vocabulary and Semantic Services Interest Group at 14th Plenary Meeting of Research Data Alliance (RDA), Helsinki, Finland (23-25 October 2019) on 25th October 2019. 

Delivered an Invited Talk in a plenary session on "Libraries and Librarianship in the Era of RenewedArtificial Intelligence" at the International Conference on Digital Transformation: a cognitive learning towards Artificial Intelligence (ICDT 2019), Patiala, Punjab (6-8 September 2019) on 7th September 2019. 

Presented a paper on "New Generation Metadata Vocabulary for Ontology Description and Publication" at 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2017) Tallinn, Estonia (November 28 – December 1, 2017) on 30th November 2017. 

Delivered an invited talk on "MOD: Metadata for Ontology Description and publication and future plan" at BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS RESEARCH (BMIR), STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, STANFORD, USA on 3RD FEBRUARY 2017. 

Delivered an invited talk on "A formal approach to design a large scale domain ontology" at the International Workshop on Semantics for Engineering and Robotics (IWSER 2017, collocated with IEEE ICSC 2017), San Diego, CA, USA on 1st February 2017. 

Delivered an invited talk on "Research Data and Academic Libraries" at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Exertion to Establish Knowledge Society: Responsibility of Academic Libraries, SSCE, Shimurali, Nadia, West Bengal, 24-25 September 2016. 

Delivered an invited talk on "NoSQL and Graph Database" at ISI CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data, 9-20 March 2015. 

Presented a paper on Compound Noun Polysemy and Sense Enumeration in WordNet at 7thInternational Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-27, 2015. 

Delivered an invited talk on "Empowering the Web with Ontology and Linked Data" at the International Conference on Problems in Information Retrieval, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India on 9th August 2014. 

Delivered series of lectures at the Workshop on Semantic Web and Agent Technologies (SWAT-2014), 14-18 April, 2014, organized by Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur. Gave lecture on the topics are as follows: (i) Semantic Web: An Introduction; (ii) Semantic Web Languages: RDF, RDFS, OWL and SPARQL; (iii) Ontology: From Fundamentals To Implementation; (iv) Protege: Hands-on Practice. 

Linked data: from basics to implementation and applications. Delivered at the Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur, India, 24th January 2014. 

UKC and an Entity centric Top Level Ontology ETLO. Delivered at the KnowDive group seminar series, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, 29th February 2011.

Domain specific facet based language resource. Delivered at the series of lectures on Digital Libraries and Language Technologies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Trento, Trento, 24th June, 2011 (Available at: http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/Courses/DL/Slides_10_11/2011_05_24.pdf

Realization of eLearning scenario in the Semantic Web arena. Delivered at the WIFL Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada, 13th March 2009 (Available at: https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/455)

INTO: A way to represent institutional knowledge base. Delivered at the Workshop on Ontology. Documentation Research and Training Cantre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, 19th-21st March 2008.

Koha: an Open Source Library Management System. Delivered at the Workshop on Koha. Christ College, Bangalore, 27th August 2007.

DSpace: make it your own. In the Workshop on Building Institutional Repositories using DSpace Software. In National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL), Bangalore, 5th -7th September 2007. (Available at: https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/handle/1849/412)

Tutorial on HTML and XML. Delivered at the Workshop on Web Page Design and Institutional Repository Development (using DSpace): Hands-on Experience”. Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 23rd – 29th March 2006.

Demo on DSpace installation. Delivered at the Workshop on Web Page Design and Institutional Repository Development (using DSpace): Hands-on Experience”. Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 23rd – 29th March 2006.