OnToContent 2006, Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise Workshop, (Submission, June 30), call3

Problems to install the server

Hello Friends,

I'm just trying to install the annotation server an FreeBSD 6.1. I
followed the Server HOWTO under
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/26-modules/User/Annotations-HOWTO.html#authDBform
and I am done so far.

Apache 1.3 is configured and everything should be fine, but:

2 issues that I don't understand:

If I am trying to get access under http://<server>/annotations the
script is telling me that the users file doesn't exist. But I used the
following command to create a user:

# dbmmanage /usr/local/etc/apache/users add martin martin
User martin added with password encrypted to martin using crypt

And the script outputs the following text:

failed to execute $self->{USER_RECORDS} = new
W3C::Annotations::DBMUserRecords(-errorHandler => $self, -type=>'dbm',
-file=>/usr/local/etc/apache/users);: No such file or directory
W3C::Util::Exception thrown at
/usr/local/perl/modules/W3C/Annotations/CGI/annotate:247
....
....

So, That's not true!

The second issue is, that I read something about the Makefile.PL:
"Makefile.PL attempts to find a user/password database and check the
format, however, you may need to intercede if it fails."

So, I started it:

[root <at> server /usr/local/perl/modules/W3C/Database]# perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
        Basekit.pm
Please inform the author.
Warning: prerequisite W3C::Util::Basekit 0.91 not found.
Could not open 'Basekit.pm': No such file or directory at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 2649.

Then I checked this if the server is not complete installed ( I did
this like in the HowTo explained):

[root <at> server /usr/local/perl/modules/W3C/Database]# cd ..
[root <at> server /usr/local/perl/modules/W3C]# cd ..
[root <at> server /usr/local/perl/modules]# find . -name Base*
../W3C/Util/Basekit.pm

So, the Basekit.pm is there.... but the Makefile cannot find this!?!?

I'm really stucking at this.

Do you have any suggestion?

Thank you very much,

Martin.

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CFP - Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop at ISWC-2006

                       FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

       Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop
                        November 5 2006
     http://www.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/SemanticDesktopWS2006/   

     workshop to be held at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference,
                  Athens, GA, U.S.A. November 5-9 2006
                    http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/

MOTIVATION, AIM AND SCOPE

The Semantic Web holds promises for information organization and selective
access, providing standard means for formulating and distributing metadata
and Ontologies.

However, we miss a wide use of Semantic Web technologies on personal
computers. The use of ontologies, metadata annotations, and semantic web
protocols on desktop computers will allow the integration of desktop
applications and the web, enabling a much more focused and integrated
personal information management as well as focused information distribution
and collaboration on the Web beyond sending emails. The goal is an open
personal information management system and collaborative infrastructure
based on Semantic Web technology build into the operating system of current
machines.

Collaboration, acquisition and dissemination infrastructures like Wikis and
Blogs are providing the foundation for joint collaborative knowledge
creation and are essentially simplified knowledge acquisition tools. Social
Software maps the social connections between different people into the
technical infrastructure. Online Social Networking enables collaboration
relationships as first class citizens, and allows exploiting these
relationships for automated information distribution and classification.

P2P and Grid computing develops technology to interconnect large communities
without centralized infrastructures for data and computation sharing, which
is necessary to build heterogeneous, multi-organizational collaboration
networks. The application of the mentioned technologies, especially in
combination with the Semantic Web, to the desktop computer in order to
improve personal information management and collaboration is the main topic
of this workshop. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Architectures and frameworks for integrating the Semantic Web into a
Desktop environment
    * Personal Information Management tools (calendar, address books, email,
documents, ideas) that interoperate with the Semantic Web
    * Enhance searching and information retrieval on desktop computers using
ontologies and metadata.
    * Means to extract metadata from desktop applications (e.g., OpenOffice
etc.)
    * Knowledge Acquisition and Visualization tools for desktop applications
    * Integration and exploitation of semantic social networks into a
semantic desktop environment
    * P2P models for distributed architecture enabling collaboration with
Semantic Desktop nodes
    * Applications of the Semantic Desktop, e.g, eScience and eGovernment.
    * Methods employing the community factor for knowledge engineering,
    * Policies, authentication and trust within agile collaborative
knowledge engineering scenarios,
    * Querying, aggregation and presentation for adaptive scenarios,
    * Joining Web 2.0 and Semantic Web strategies and technologies,
    * Applications enabling massively distributed knowledge elicitation

IMPORTANT DATES:

   July      24, 2006  	-   Abstract submissions due
   August     1, 2006 	-   Paper submissions due
   September  5, 2006 	-   Acceptance Notification
   September 18, 2006 	-   Camera-redady papers due
   November   5, 2006 	-   Workshop date

SUBMISSIONS

Please follow the style guides according the Springer LNCS format outlined
at:
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.h
tml Technical papers should have max. 15 pages including references,
position papers should not exceed 5 pages. Papers can be associated with a
demo. Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to
semdesk2006 <at> semanticdesktop.org.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

    * Stefan Decker, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)
    * Jack Park, SRI, (USA)
    * Leo Sauermann, DFKI (Germany)
    * Sören Auer, University of Pennsylvenia (USA)
    * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)

CFP - SAAW2006 Semantic Authoring and Annotation Workshop at ISWC-2006

                       FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

        SAAW2006 - Semantic Authoring and Annotation Workshop
                http://saaw2006.semanticweb.org/

workshop to be held at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference,
               Athens, GA, U.S.A. November 5-9 2006
                 http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/

SUMMARY

The workshop aims to combine the "traditional" paradigm of Semantic Web (SW)
annotation with SW technologies in the authoring domain (e.g. Blogs and
Wikis, Semantic Word, etc). Together with the popular collaborative tagging
paradigm, these three application domains make up what can collectively be
called Semantic Authoring and Annotation.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   July 24, 2006  	-   Abstract submissions due
   August 1, 2006 	-   Paper submissions due
   September 5, 2006 	-   Acceptance Notification
   September 18, 2006 	-   Camera-ready papers due
   November 6, 2006 	-   Workshop date

MOTIVATION, AIM AND SCOPE

The "traditional" paradigm of Semantic Web (SW) annotation - annotating
existing web sites with the help of external tools - has been established
for a number of years now, e.g. in the form of tools such as OntoMat or
tools based on Annotea, and is continuously being developed and improved.

At the same time, core technologies of the SW - the common, open data-model
of the Resource Description Framework and the use of shared vocabularies -
are now gradually being introduced into mainstream publishing and authoring
channels such traditional online publications or office software, as well as
in new and "hip" technologies such as Blogs and Wikis. Regardless of the
medium, SW technologies in the authoring domain aim at aiding human content
producers to author, structure, annotate and publish text and other media
right from the start, rather than enriching them with metadata at a later
stage.

The collaborative tagging paradigm, which has its roots in social
bookmarking and folksonomies, is now becoming popular. Unfortunately, it is
often very centralized and does not take users needs for different levels of
sharing into account. Many services would benefit their users by offering
them SW based bookmarks and topics such as in Annotea bookmarking and topic
framework.

Together these three application domains make up what can collectively be
called Semantic Authoring and Annotation, the result of which are documents
with formal, machine-understandable semantics, partly created by authors and
partly by collaborators examining the work in different angles and in
different contexts. An important aspect in all these technologies is that
they are human-centric, target non-computer experts and aim at making
various kinds of content more visible, better accessible, easier to find,
reuse, share, organize, and examine from different viewpoints. Furthermore,
Semantic Annotation and the introduction of SW technologies into mainstream
authoring domains will result in an increased amount of relevant SW data,
and help to achieve a broader success of the SW.

Finally, various technologies to implement semantic annotation and the
authoring of semantic documents (e.g. GRDDL for deriving formal metadata or
RDFa and Microformats for embedding it) have entered the scene recently, and
are being endorsed by standards bodies such as the W3C.

The SAAW workshop will be organized as a half-day workshop and will
investigate technical and methodological, as well as social issues
surrounding all aspects of Semantic Web Authoring and Annotation.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Semantic Authoring and Annotation tools - Semantic Blogs,
       Semantic Wikis, etc. - that allows human users to produce
       content and publish it on the web:
          * Usability - As SW techonologies enter the mainstream,
            the end-users (authors) of authoring tools will often
            not have formal computing background, which is why
            simple and intuitive user interfaces are becoming
            increasingly important.
          * Context - Knowing the context of the authoring and
            publishing process - where and when is an author
            producing content, for which audience, etc. - can be
            exploited in aiding and guiding human users.
          * Integration and Aggregation - Many tasks require
            authors to draw on various often not integrated
            sources. An important goal must therefore be to find
            ways to enable this integration and aggregation
            process.
     * Formats and standards for embedding formal metadata in
       documents (e.g. RDFa or Microformats), or for deriving such
       metadata from documents (e.g. GRDDL):
          * Assessment of such standards - are they sufficient,
            what is still missing?
          * Examples of the use of such technologies (e.g.
            Microformats in Structured Blogging)
     * Semantic Authoring and Annotation for scientific
       publications:
          * What would users (readers) need from and gain by
            semantically authored and annotated documents?
          * What would authors be willing to submit?
          * To what extent can scientific papers be structured?
          * Are current authoring/browsing tools able to handle
            these needs, if not what is the next step?
          * Enabling Semantic Conference Proceedings: Conceptual
            Structures for Publication
          * Cost and benefit of "going semantics" for a large
            (publishing) organization
     * The impact of the Social Semantic Desktop on Semantic
       Authoring and Annotation - the Next generation collaboration
       infrastructure:
          * Means to author and annotate Semantic Documents on the
            Desktop
     * General descriptions of semantic annotation
     * (Common) semantic annotation strategies for upgrading the
       web to the Semantic Web (including multimedia content):
          * Semantic annotation of static vs. dynamic web documents
          * Manual and/or automated semantic annotation of the
            current Web
          * Multimedia semantic annotation (e.g. with adoptions of
            MPEG-7)
     * Collaborative tagging and annotation
          * Relations between tagging systems and full-fledged
            semantic annotation
          * Deriving formal semantics from flat tagging systems
            (tag clustering, etc.)
     * All topics related to the evaluation of authoring and
       annotation for Semantic Web applications
     * Vocabularies and Ontologies for Semantic Authoring and
       Annotation

SUBMISSIONS

   Format requirements for the submission of papers are:

     * Maximum 10 pages, including title page and bibliography for
       technical papers.
     * Maximum 4 pages, including title page and bibliography for
       short position papers.

Although not required for the initial submission, we recommend following the
ACM format guidelines <http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html>,
as this will be the required format for accepted papers. Also please note
that papers in ACM format tend to have fewer pages, compared to the same
paper in other styles.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

    * Knud Möller, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)
    * Anita de Waard, Elsevier Publishing (Netherlands)
    * Steve Cayzer, HP Labs, Bristol (United Kingdom)
    * Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Annotea.org (USA)
    * Michael Sintek, DFKI (Germany)
    * Siegfried Handschuh, DERI/NUI Galway (Ireland)

[CFP] 2nd Workshop on Semantic Wikis: WibKE2006

Apologies for cross-posting
----
               Call for papers for the
          2nd Workshop on Semantic Wikis:
     Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering [WibKE2006]

     
           http://wibke2006.semwiki.org

    ->  abstract deadline:   in 8 days  <-
    ->  early registration:  * TODAY *  <-
      (register now, pay later or cancel)

co-located with 
* the 2nd International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym2006)
* ACM HyperText 2006

August 21-23, 2006, Odense, [[located in::Denmark]]

== Important Dates ==
*  Abstract deadline:  27th June   2006 (an e-mail to chair <at> semwiki.org
                                         with an abstract/topic/basic idea
                                         is enough)
* Paper deadline:       9th July   2006 (can not be extended)
* Notification:        31th July   2006
* Camera ready due:    14th August 2006 (can not be extended)
* Workshop:           21-23 August 2006 (one day out of the three)

== Objectives ==
WibKE2006 is the second workshop on Semantic Wikis. It aims to explore
and collect the different ideas and motivations that have lead to the
recent emergence of so-called "Semantic Wiki" systems. Wikis can be
seen as editable information portals. In this workshop, we are mostly
interested in the editing/authoring/articulation of information and
less about the portal aspect.

The main objective of the workshop is to promote and
further develop the idea of employing Wiki design principles and
implementations as enabling technology and development paradigm for
(formally) creating and structuring knowledge in distributed
scenarios. A further aim is to sensitize knowledge engineers in
dealing with vague and changing requirements in distributed, Web-based
settings.

The workshop looks for novel approaches for a seamless integration of
Wiki technologies in knowledge engineering practices, for supporting
concepts and strategies, as well as for tools and use-cases of their
application. Of special interest are ideas and applications using
Wikis for creating, managing and using formally represented knowledge
in the context of the Semantic Web.

== Topics of Interest ==
include, but are not limited to:
* Methods employing the Wiki Way in knowledge engineering,
* Concepts and strategies for integrating domain experts
  and end users into the knowledge engineering process,
* Methods for automatic, Wiki-based knowledge elicitation
  from collaborative environments,
* Methods for supporting the creation of structured
  and (partially) formalised personal knowledge bases
* Policies, authentication and trust within agile
  collaborative knowledge engineering scenarios,
* Strategies and methods joining Web 2.0, Wiki and
  Semantic Web technologies for knowledge management purposes
* Semantic Wiki tools supporting semantic collaboration
* Semantic Wiki tools supporting personal knowledge management
* Wiki-driven applications enabling massively distributed knowledge elicitation,
* Requirements and use-cases for Web-scaled collaborative knowledge engineering
  in relation to Wiki technologies
* Applications of Semantic Wikis, e.g. in Bio-Medicine,
  Business, Software-Engineering
* Experience reports, best practices
  and guidelines in the aforementioned areas

== Workshop Format ==
*  Introduction and overview about current developments with regard to
   the application of Wikis in knowledge engineering and knowledge management
   tasks
* Paper presentation
** Position (5 pages) and full papers (10 pages) will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers.
** Workshop proceedings will appear at CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073
** Panel discussion

== Prospective Audience ==
* Researchers and practitioners developing or interested
  in Wiki-based methods and tools for knowledge engineering,
* Knowledge engineers, and domain experts interested in the
  development of collaborative evolving content repositories,
* Participants from industry interested in employing Wikis
  for organizational knowledge engineering,
* Wiki community activists.

== Organising Committee==
* Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / FZI, Germany
* Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
* Elena Paslaru Bontas, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
* Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany & University of Pennsylvania, USA

== Program Committee (to be completed)==
* Adam Souzis (Liminal Systems) 
* Bertin Klein (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Björn Decker (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
* Chris Bizer (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
* Denny Vrandecic (AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany)
* George A. Vouros (University of the Aegean, Greece)
* Giovanni Tummarello (Universita' Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
* Jean Rohmer (Thales Communications, France)
* Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (Fraunhofer ISST, Germany)
* Libby Miller (asemantics, US)
* Malte Kiesel (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Martin Hepp (DERI Innsbruck, Austria)
* Natasha Noy (Stanford University, US)
* Peter Haase (AIFB Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Peter Mika (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL)
* Rupert Westenthaler (Salzburg Research, Austria)
* Valentina Presutti (LOA-CNR, Italy)

== Related Work ==
Authors are encouraged to look at the proceedings of [[SemWiki2006]] and WikiSym 2005.
See http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/SemWiki2006

Please ask questions to wibke2006 <at> semwiki.org

---

Kind regards,

  Max Völkel
--
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI / http://xam.de

Final call, Submissions to OnToContent 2006 Workshop due July 10

Updated ontology for annotations.

Hi folks,

    We are looking at adding annotations to our project and think need some
    modifications to the Annotea RDF for annotations. Let me outline the
    requirements and would like to hear if anyone else had similar
    requirements and how they solved it (or even recommendations).

    a) Versioning

    We need to keep a history of annotations as they get modified (we believe
    mostly context and content)

    b) Annotating multiple objects at once

    Annotea by default points to a single object. We might need an annotation
    for multiple objects (& multiple contexts), but same annotation content.

    regards

Amit

RE: Updated ontology for annotations.

Re: Updated ontology for annotations.

True, but we need to integrate with rest of our stuff being modelled in RDF.

regards
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:13:39PM -0700, Laurent Denoue wrote:
> I'm half joking, but a wiki would do the job for you.
> Each annotation is a wiki page.
> 
> The wiki will give you versioning of your annotations.
> 
> You can point to many documents from a single annotation by simply having hyperlinks in the wiki page.
> 
> Then you could automatically index the links from all your wiki pages so that you can quickly find all
annotations that link to a specific document you're looking at.
> E.g. if you go to google.com, your server returns all wiki pages that contain a link to google.com
> 
> Laurent.
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-annotation-request <at> w3.org on behalf of Amit Kapoor
> Sent: Thu 6/22/2006 3:47 PM
> To: www-annotation <at> w3.org
> Subject: Updated ontology for annotations.
>  
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>     We are looking at adding annotations to our project and think need some
>     modifications to the Annotea RDF for annotations. Let me outline the
>     requirements and would like to hear if anyone else had similar
>     requirements and how they solved it (or even recommendations).
> 
>     a) Versioning
> 
>     We need to keep a history of annotations as they get modified (we believe
>     mostly context and content)
> 
>     b) Annotating multiple objects at once
> 
>     Annotea by default points to a single object. We might need an annotation
>     for multiple objects (& multiple contexts), but same annotation content.
> 
>     regards
> 
> Amit
> 
> 
>