VoCampOxford2008
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[edit] What
The first (possibly of many) VoCamps. More about this here in WhatIsVoCamp...
[edit] When
Weds 24th and Thurs 25th September 2008. Provisionally we aim to start at 10:30am on Wednesday 24th, and finish at 4pm on Thursday 25th, although no doubt some people will stick around for a pint afterwards.
[edit] Where
[edit] Venue
The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK (Wikipedia entry about Wolfson College)
[edit] Accommodation
David has kindly reserved seventeen single rooms (the maximum they had free) at the Linton Lodge Hotel, Linton Road, Oxford (http://www.lintonlodge.com/), 400 metres up the road from Wolfson College, for the nights of Tuesday 23th, Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th September at the discount rate of £75 per person per night bed and breakfast. People wanting rooms must book these individually for the exact nights they need within this time window, by phoning the hotel on +44 (0)1865-553 461 using their own credit cards before the end of AUGUST, quoting reference number VOC2309, after which this block reservation will lapse.
For those on a tight budget, there may be cheaper beds available in hostels. See: http://www.hostels.com/en/findabed.php?ChosenCity=Oxford&ChosenCountry=England
[edit] Travel
Oxford has a mainline train station with frequent connections to Birmingham and London, also less frequent/fast connections westwards to Bristol, southwards to Southampton (I think) and by bus eastwards to Milton Keynes where there are also connections to Luton Airport. See http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ for train timetables. Oxford also has decent connections into the motorway network.
For those of you travelling from outside the UK, then Birmingham, London Heathrow and London Luton airports are all be pretty convenient for train/bus connections to Oxford AFAICT. London Gatwick, London Stansted, Bristol, Coventry and even Southampton may also be options, but YMMV. Of course Oxford is just a short train ride from central London, which is now less than two hours from Brussels by Eurostar (IIRC), so do consider coming by train if you can :)
[edit] Coaches (Oxford <-> London and the airports)
The Oxford Brookes website helpfully has a list of main coach services running from London into Oxford [1]. (Ignore their links to the oxford bus company, who have no conception of permanent URLs ;) -> Infomation about the coaches to and from Heathrow and Gatwick can be found here [2])
When coming in to the VoCamp, the central Oxford coach/bus terminus is called "Gloucester Green".
A google map showing the route from this bus terminus to Wolfson - directions to Wolfson, indicating the public transport route using the number 2 bus
[edit] Who
[edit] Organisers
[edit] Participants
[edit] Update 2008-07-21: Sorry, this event is now full :( Please add you name to the StandBy List below in case additional places become available
Participants, please list your name and any areas in which you're interested in creating vocabs (note: this is non-binding; it's also fine to list none). NB Only 20 places available this time, first come first served!
- TomHeath: whisky, (evidence-based) health, politics, travel/transport, t-shirts, environmental performance...
- RichardCyganiak: tasks and TODOs; tagging; linked data helper vocabularies (paging, property value lists)
- Jun Zhao
- IanDavis: evidence based genealogy, collaborative vocabulary building, vocabulary hosting
- KeithAlexander: meta(data and vocabs) book history, politics
- Chris Wallace : academic structures and organisation; ships; weather ;
- Cathy Dolbear : geographic information
- Nadeem Shabir: meta(data and vocabs) books, learning, education
- Matthias Samwald: Extensions to FOAF for use in corporations, extensions to SIOC for discourse representation, associative tags / structured tags for lightweight representation of facts, especially in the field of biomedical R&D
- Knud Möller: desktop data, events, World of Warcraft (;-) . Dan's FOAF service pack 1 sounds fantastic.
- Ben O'Steen Semantically representing an academic work/research/data (implying author, dept, funder, etc represented as URIs), whisky sounds good, FOAF/SIOC/SKOS, oh and what about skos:disambiguates? (e.g. how to represent the links between http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_(disambiguation) and the links it portrays
- Uldis Bojars: modelling user-created content, extending SIOC and combining it with other vocabularies
- Holger Stenzhorn: biomedical ontologies
- David F. Flanders (is coming for the whole event!)
- Fabien Gandon (trip confirmed and hotel booked arriving the 23rd, leaving the 26th)
- Earle Martin
- Tom Morris
- Rob Styles : workflow/lifecycle; higher education; foaf and social networks.
- Patrick Sinclair
- Alexandre Passant
---- sorry, this event is now full, please use the standby list below ----
[edit] Standby List
When the list above gets full, add your name here if you want to be on the standby list in case places become free:
... (increase as needed)
[edit] Disappointed that they can't go
- Daniel Lewis - I can't go due to postgraduate registration :-(
- Michael Hausenblas is really very sad about this ... has to attend a project meeting :((
- Sergio Fernández - I'm a little bit far away and the dates are not good for me... next time.
- Alistair Miles was torn between vocamp and DC2008 but had to choose.
- Peter Mika is glad to see this idea realized...but unfortunately had a previous commitment to the Dagstuhl seminar on the Social Web.
- YvesRaimond: can't make it unfortunately due to thesis commitments
- Haklae Kim - have to attend DC2008.. maybe next time in Galway?.
- Marie-Claire Forgue
- Amit Kumar
... (increase as needed)
