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Introducing
the Next Technology
Revolution
march 4-7 • austin convention
center • austin, tx
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Tuesday,
March 6 •
9:00am-10:30am
(two sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; The Business of Knowledge
Track Chair:
B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
The Laws
of (New) Media: Marshall McLuhan and Knowledge
Technologies
Speaker: Dale
Hunscher, CEO, South Wind Design, Inc.
Description: Marshall McLuhan foresaw
the effects of the Internet more than 30
years ahead of his time. His "Global Village"
concept is now a household word, as well
as a virtual reality. In this presentation,
we'll look at McLuhan's Laws of Media to
see how they help us make sense of the features
of the markup language standards world.
Best Practices in Using IT to Support
KM
Speaker: Cindy
Hubert, KM Practice Area Manager, APQC,
Custom Solutions
Description: It is no coincidence
that information technology (IT) has blossomed
at the same time that knowledge is becoming
recognized as the most valuable of a firm's
assets. There is a powerful synergistic
relationship between KM and technology;
that relationship drives increasing returns
and increasing sophistication on both fronts.
In this presentation Ms. Hubert will provide
guidance in how IT can be used toward KM
efforts.
Implementer
Track; Tools and Applications
Track Chair:
Dr. H. Holger Rath, empolis Content Management
GmbH
K-Discovery:
Identification of Distributed Knowledge
Structures in a Process Oriented Groupware
Environment
Speaker: Stefan
Smolnik, Research Assistant, University
of Paderborn
Description: Scenarios in groupware
environments show the problems of accessing
knowledge structures in common and organizational
knowledge structures in particular. Based
on this an architectural model will be introduced
during this session, in which knowledge
structures are created by generating Topic
Maps in a process oriented groupware environment.
Using
XML Metadata with PDF to Enable Asset Management
Speaker: Chuck
Myers, Senior Manager of Business Development,
Adobe Systems, Incorporated
Description:
One of the keys to enabling corporate knowledge
asset management is the use of metadata to
identify and organize the assets. This presentation
will explain how XML metadata can be used
with PDF documents to enable management of
these assets.
Technical
Track; Core Technologies
Track Chair:
Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech
Knowledge
Management at the Datum Level
Speaker: Eric
Freese, Director of Professional Services,
ISOGEN International
Description: This talk will cover
how knowledge management systems can be
extended using the grove paradigm to allow
for management and data access below the
file level. Data types other than XML can
be accessed allowing data reuse between
data types and extending the value of legacy
systems.
The
Van: The Power of Cocoon for Web-Enabled Knowledge
Sharing
Speaker: Marcus
Goncalves, Chief Knowledge Officer, Virtual
Access Networks, Inc.
Description: This presentation will discuss
how the VAN will provide a set of integration-level
application semantics, the Internet content
extractor (ICE), which as a core technology
will allow for a series of connectivity ports
(known as ICE crystals) to a multitude of
applications. Put in another way, the VAN
will create a common way for data to be extracted,
exchanged, and directed cross platform and
among disparate devices, wired or wireless.
10:30am-11:00am
Break
11:00am-12:30pm (two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
Getting
on the Knowledge Bus: Objects, Links,
and Asset Management Strategies
Speaker: Chris
W. Higgins
Description: This presentation will
discuss how the Knowledge Bus is a channel
over which knowledge flows between two
or more knowledge processing devices to
provide a common medium for the explicit
representation and exchange of knowledge
assets. By unifying the infrastructures
for data integration, security policies
and knowledge personalization, the Bus
exploits generic addressing and linking
to create a new world of fungible knowledge
objects.
Late Breaking
News
Implementer
Track; Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Sam
Hunting, EComXML
Applying
Topic Maps to the Classification of Health
Interventions
Speaker: Derek
Millar, Director, Professional Services,
NewBook Production Inc.
Description: This presentation will
describe how a health information application
in Canada, the classification of health-related
interventions, can benefit from the application
of Topic Maps, an international standard for
codifiying subjects and the relationships
between them. How the semantics of the classification
can be captured in a topic map, the impact
of having a topic map on the process of publishing
conventional paper and CD-ROM reference products,
and the implications for collaboration and
sharing of information with international
health classification initiatives will be
discussed.
XML,
newsML, and Topic Maps; Integration and Implementations
Speaker: Soelwin
Oo, Student Developer, empolis UK
Description: This presentation will
highlight real world scope of topic maps based
technologies. It will focus on the newly published
IPTC XML based NewsML standard and discuss
how these two standards can be used together
to provide a powerful collective knowledge
base.
Technical
Track; Core Technologies
Track Chair:
Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech
Developing
a Topic Map Programming Model
Speaker: Kal
Ahmed, Principal Consultant and Lars
Marius Garshol, Development Manager, Ontopia
Description: Topic maps provide
a standard means for the representation
of structured information. The standard
currently defines only the interchange
of topic maps using an SGML or XML-based
syntax. For application developers, however,
what is required is a standardized means
of creating, manipulating and serializing
topic maps. This presentation will explore
some different approaches to providing
interfaces for these purposes and proposes
a number of different solutions.
TMQL (Topic
Map Query Language)
Speaker: Ann
Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS
& Dr. H.
Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager,
empolis Content Management GmbH
Description: Topic maps need to
be able to deliver their characteristic
information handling
functionality in a modern distributed
system context; to fulfil this vision,
Topic Map tools need a deeper basis for
interoperability than the interchange
syntaxes published so far. TMQL has been
named (in advance of its formal existence!)
by analogy with SQL, and is intended to
provide a similar kind of standardized
functional interface to a topic map. This
presentation will give a brief review
of the status of the TMQL project (following
the meetings immediately preceding the
conference), and will include information
on how to access and comment on the work
in progress.
12:30pm-2:00pm
Luncheon with Poster Presentations and
Table-top Exhibits
2:00pm-3:30pm
(two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry
Technologies
Creating
Standards-Based Knowledge Systems
using NewsML and Topic Maps
Speaker: Daniel
Rivers-Moore, Director of New
Technologies, RivCom
Description: This presentation
will provide an overview of the
NewsML and Topic Maps standards.
It will show how, because of their
powerful synergy, Topic Maps and
NewsML can combine to make a newsfeed
into a knowledge engine, and a news
archive into a navigable knowledge
repository.
What's Required in Knowledge
Technologies, A Practical View
Speaker: Reid
Smith, Vice President Knowledge
Management, Schlumberger
Description: Reid Smith is
responsible for leading the effort
to improve organizational performance
through processes and technology
to capture, share, and apply the
overall experience and know-how
of people in the company. Learn
about the requirements for knowledge
technologies from a practicing knowledge
manager.
Implementer
Track; Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Dr.
H. Holger Rath, empolis Content
Management GmbH
Compendium:
Making Meetings into Knowledge Events
Speaker: Albert M. Selvin, Senior
Member of Technical Staff, Verizon
Communications and
Dr. Jeff
Conklin, CogNexus
Description: This presentation
will discuss how much of an organization's
knowledge is constructed and negotiated
in face-to-face meetings, but is often
lost or forgotten. Compendium harvests
formal and informal knowledge in real
time, increasing shared understanding
among meeting participants, creating
a coherent organizational memory of
learnings and decisions, and integrating
the knowledge creation process across
time and across diverse communities.
Knowledge
Holographs that Leverage How We Learn
for Maximum Knowledge Management Productivity
Speaker:
Bain McKay,
Chief Scientist and Executive Vice
President, CIRI Lab Inc.
Description: TOPIC MAPS address a
new and powerful way to represent
knowledge context in and across documents.
But they represent only the first
stage of Knowledge Management productivity.
To be truly productive, we must address
the entire Knowledge Management Life
Cycle, including learning productivity
where we waste 80% of our time organizing
information for personal learning.
We can automate this process by leveraging
how we learn through new indexing
methods like Knowledge Holographs
that index fractal semantic analogues
in real-time across 100s and 1000s
of dimensions with mass scalability.
Such methods depart significantly
from standard scientific methods that
focus deeply on individual disciplines
by concomitantly leveraging both the
broad and deep disciplines of Cognitive
Science, in which information science
plays a much less prominent role,
and where the power of knowledge management
shifts from information scientist,
to domain expert.
Technical
Track; Core Technologies
Track Chair:
Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom, Inc.
DAML: The DARPA Agent Markup Language
Speaker: Dan
Connolly, XML Activity Leader,
World Wide Web Consortium
Description: The Web contains
huge amounts of information coded
using HTML. While HTML allows us
to visualize the information on
the web, it doesn't provide much
capability to describe the information
in ways that facilitate theuse of
software programs to find or interpret
it. XML allows information to be
more accurately described using
tags and to add metadata. However,
XML has a limited capability to
describe the relationships with
respect to objects. Ontologies provide
a powerful alternative for describing
objects and their relationshipsto
other objects. DAML (DARPA Agent
Markup Language) language is being
developed as an extension toXML
and the to create web languages
to make morecontent readable and
processable by machines. This presentation
will provide an introduction DAML,
it's current status and relationship
with RDF (Resource Description Framework).
Building,
Sharing, and Merging Ontologies
Speaker: John
Sowa, Independant Consultant
Description: For centuries,
librarians have sought universal
terminologies and definitions for
classifying and integrating databases
of documents. During the 1970s,
the ANSI SPARC committee proposed
the three-schema architecture for
defining and integrating database
systems. Today, the semantic web
raises similar, but still unsolved
problems of relating and integrating
independently developed knowledge
bases. This talk surveys the issues
involved, the approaches that have
been successfully applied to small
systems, and the ongoing efforts
to extend them to large-scale, distributed,
interconnected, rapidly growing,
heterogeneous systems.
3:30pm-4:00pm
Break
4:00pm-5:30pm (two
sessions included in each track)
Management
Track; The Business of Knowledge
Track
Chair: B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry
Technologies
eCommerce
Powered by Knowledge Technologies
Speaker: Dr.
H. Holger Rath, Business Segment
Manager, empolis Content Management
GmbH
Description: Discussed during
the session will be how a B2C eCommerce
Web site require excellent sales
support (assistance) to attract
the customers and to be successful.
Ordinary database and fulltext queries
as well as simple profiles do not
provide the expected level of service.
Knowledge technologies can fuel
intelligent searching, personalized
feedback dialogs, and sophisticated
knowledge navigation giving the
customer the kind of help and comfort
she is looking for. The results
are higher traffic, turnovers, and
increased customer satisfaction.
Intelligent Document Content for
e-Business
Speaker: Dan
Z. Sokol, President, Cohesia
Corporation
Description: This presentation
will discuss the requirements for
enriching XML to enable more automated
document interpretation in support
of e-business activities. The presentation
will discuss real world applications
in a trade exchange and a manufacturing
enterprise.
Implementer
Track; Tools and Applications
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting, EComXML
Harvesting XML Topic Maps
Speaker: Nikita
Ogievetsky, President, CogiTech
Inc.
Description: Session discussions
will focus on principals and techniques
for harvesting XML Topic Maps. The
presentation will be based on the
experience with using XSLT scripts
for XTM extraction from various
types of metadata.
The
Automatic Encoding of Lexical Knowledge
in RDF Topic Maps
Speaker: Carol
Jean Godby, Senior Research
Scientist, OCLC
Description: This presentation
describes strategies for automatically
extracting terminology and lexical
relationships from collections of
similar Web documents. The results
are represented as an RDF graph
that can be loaded into the Open
Extensible RDF Toolkit to produce
a searchable and browsable topicmap.
Technical
Track; Core Technologies
Track
Chair: Michel Biezunski, InfoLoom,
Inc.
Grounding Knowledge Technology in
Neuroscience
Speaker: Paul
S. Prueitt, Founder, OntologyStream.com
Description: The tools required
to accommodate the rapidly expanding
demand for tracking, validating,
and utilizing vast stores of communications
are profoundly complex. This presentation
will outline a foundation for grounding
knowledge technology in neurophysiology,
cognitive neuroscience and stratified
complexity theory. Using this foundation
the speaker expects to offer an
objective evaluation of new types
of knowledge technologies.
Bringing Knowledge Technologies
to the Classroom
Speaker: Jack
Park, Sr. Scientist, Advanced
Products and Strategies, VerticalNet
Solutions Description: The
Semantic Web initiative offers us
an opportunity to examine applications
of web technologies in the light
of many diverse domains, two of
which are e-commerce and education.
This presentation will examine ways
in which the collaborative and ontology-based
nature of e-commerce solutions can
be combinied with new technologies
that support constructivist epistemologies
to further enhance the many ways
in which the Semantic Web will benefit
education. It will explore ways
in which the new XTM Topic Map standard
can be combined with Issue-based
Information Systems (IBIS) and other
features of the Semantic Web to
provide opportunities for the development
of critical thinking skills to classrooms
everywhere. It will further outline
an approach to enabling classrooms
to provide such learning experiences
in a world-wide collaborative fashion,
enabling learners to become world-class
thinkers.
5:30pm-7:00pm
Reception with Poster Presentations
and Tabletop Exhibits
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