VoCampDCMay2009
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[edit] Evening Activities
To be determined (suggestions for local bars/restaurants which would be accommodating are welcome)
Location is one block due west of the northern end of the Washington Convention Center. That means it's about 5 blocks south of U St corridor, particularly the part where all of the Ethiopian restaurant are located.
[edit] Agenda
If anyone has input into the proposed agenda (ideas for presentations, activities, discussions, etc.) please don't hesitate to send mail to the list (discuss@lists.vocamp.org) or contact me (mikelangjr@revelytix.com) directly.
Day 1
9:00 - 9:30
Networking and Coffee
9:30 - 10:00
Organized discussion of Vocabularies of interest to participants
10:00 - 1:00
a) Presentations will begin in the side room
b) Collaboration on Vocabulaires will begin in other rooms
1:00 - 2:00
Lunch (provided by Revelytix)
2:00 - 5:00
Collaboration on Vocabularies
Day 2
9:00 - 9:30
Networking and Coffee
9:30 - 10:00
Day 1 Recap
10:00 - 1:00
a) Possibly more presentations in side room, if desired
b) Collaboration on Vocabularies in other rooms
1:00 - 2:00
Lunch (provided by Revelytix)
2:00 - 5:00
Collaboration on Vocabularies
[edit] Potential Vocabulary Topics
The following topics have been suggested as potential topics for vocabulary work. Anyone attending is free to add any topics they would like to cover. Also, if you are interested in any of the topics already suggested, feel free to make a note.
- anything government related may be of more interest at ISWC2009 (Duane Degler)
- archaeological, anthropological, and historical data sets (Rafael C. Alvarado)
- University Ontology : various aspects of higher education that works in AIISO, SIOC, BIBO, and some others (Patrick Murray-John)
- Vocabulary for Social Services in relation with SIOC and AIISO concepts (Kalyan Lanka)
- Geo-spatial links into SIOC - unless someone has already done this. (Clay Fink)
- Environmental observations. (Luis Bermudez)
- Government publications - GPO/LOC (Liz Pruszko)
- Meetup Ontology (Marco Neumann)
[edit] Knoodl
Knoodl is a web-based ontology editor and wiki. It could be very useful for helping people collaborate on ontologies both before and after the VoCamp. If anyone has an ontology that has already been started, please upload it in the VoCamp Community in Knoodl so that other participants can get a look at it and start contributing before the VoCamp begins. The Wine and Food ontologies have been uploaded as examples.
[edit] Presentations
Presentations will be given in one of the smaller rooms so that people may choose to watch them or simply work with other people in the other rooms. If you are interested in presenting, contact mikelangjr@revelytix.com. Presenters so far are:
- Mike Lang - Introduction to Knoodl.com
- Kendall Clark - Using Pellet and Protege 4 for making OWL ontologies
- Liz Pruszko - If there is enough interest, I could discuss Calais integration with Drupal
- Marco Neumann - Meetup Ontology / GeoSpatial RDF
http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/
[edit] Attendees
The initial cap of 40 people has been met. Add your name to the stand by list below if you are still interested.
Please add your level of knowledge about ontologies (beginner, intermediate, expert) next to your name (i.e. Mike Lang - Expert). Beginner should denote that you are completely new to ontologies and semantic web standards in general. Intermediate notes that you have familiarity with ontologies and semantic web standards but are inexperienced building ontologies in practice. Expert is anyone who has actually developed an ontology before.
- Amanda Vizedom
- Bohdan Kantor
- Brand Niemann
- Chris D'Errico
- Clay Fink
- Dan Francis
- Daniel Mekonnen
- David Allen Harris
- David M Harris
- Ed Summers
- Elihu Eli El
- Frank
- Gary Berg-Cross
- George Thomas
- James Sun - Beginner
- Jenny Wallace
- Kalyan Lanka
- Ken Allgood
- Kendall Clark
- Lin Clark - Intermediate
- Liz Pruszko
- Luigi Montanez
- Luis Bermudez
- Marco Neumann
- Michael Howard
- Michael Lofquist - Intermediate
- Mike Lang - Expert
- Neha Gupta
- Nikolas Coukouma
- Patrick Murray-John - Intermediate
- Peter Almer
- Ryan Fay
- Samir
- Sudhir
- Terry Leach
- The Khuc
- Tiffany Shackelford
- Tom Alver
- Wayne Bethea
[edit] Stand By List
There are already 40 attendees, please add your name to the stand by list if you are interested in attending a VoCamp. If there is significant interest, we will plan a follow up VoCamp.
- Alfredo Passeri
- Kevin D. Keck - Expert
- Mike Dean - Expert
- Cyril Pruszko - Beginner
- Rafael Alvarado - Intermediate
[edit] VoCamp Baltimore
There is also a potential VoCamp Baltimore in the works at UMBC. If you are interested in attending a Baltimore VoCamp in addition to or instead of VoCamp DC, please add your name to the list here:
- Rafael Alvarado
- Scott Barasch
- Curt Tilmes
- Anand Karandikar
- Tim Finin
- Rich Goldman
- Lin Clark
- Jenn Sleeman
- Charles Fleming III
- Gary Berg-Cross
- Patrick Murray-John (if it wouldn't be rude redundancy)
- Mike Dean
- David A. Harris
- David.M.Harris
- Kalyan Lanka
- John Gugliotti
[edit] Organizer
Mike Lang of Revelytix is the organizer. You can contact him at mikelangjr@revelytix.com.

