PRE-CONFERENCE
TUTORIALS
9:00AM
- 5:30PM
A
Managers Guide to Topic Maps
Instructor: Daniel
Rivers-Moore, Director
of New Technologies, RivCom
Description: This beginner
level tutorial will enable
participants to understand
what topic maps are all about
and how they can be used to
meet real-world requirements
for the sharing and application
of corporate knowledge. Intended
for information managers rather
than programmers, it will
show how topic maps concepts
are both far-reaching and,
ultimately, easy to grasp.
Prerequisites: None
An Implementers Guide to Developing
Topic Maps
Instructors:
Kal
Ahmed, Principal Consultant,
Ontopia and Steve
Pepper, Founder &
CTO, Ontopia
Description: This intermediate
level tutorial concentrates
on the practical issues in
developing topic maps.
The focus is on technical
solutions to the problems
of topic map creation, maintenance
and connecting resources to
topic maps.
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of Topic Maps
Application of XSLT to Knowledge
Transformations
Instructor:
G.
Ken Holman, CTO, CraneSoftwrights,
Inc.
Description: This
tutorial is comprised of two
half-day generic introductions:
XML and the family of Recommendations,
and Introduction to XSLT and
XPath. XML is a technology
suitable for knowledge representation,
and XSLT is as tool that can
be used for transforming XML-expressed
knowledge representations
from one form to another.
Click below for detailed syllabi
for each half-day session:
XML
In The Corporation
An
Introduction To XSLT and XPath
Prerequisite:
None
Standards for Knowledge
Instructors: Linda
Burman, VP of Standards,
Kinecta Corporation, Ron
Daniel Jr., Standards
Architect, Interwoven, Inc.,
& Dianne
Kennedy, Chief Technical
Consultant, IDEAlliance
Description: This tutorial
will provide an opportunity
for the knowledge community
to learn about the standards
that apply to knowledge solutions.
This concise overview
will enable participants to
determine which standards
are critical to their environment
and which standards should
be stated requirements in
knowledge solutions they build
or buy.
Prerequisites:
None
Practical Ontology Construction
Instructor:
Carsten
Tautz, Manager Research
& Consulting, empolis
Knowledge Management Division,
Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group
Description: Ontologies
have grown in importance for
representing organizational
knowledge explicitly. While
there exist several standards
for this purpose (e.g., Topic
Maps, OIL, DAML), the construction
of comprehensive ontologies
that reflect organization-specific
needs remains a challenge.
This tutorial gives an overview
of the most important knowledge
representation formalisms,
sets existing ontology specification
languages in relation to these
formalisms, introduces organizational
and methdological concepts
for continuous learning, and
finally presents a systematic,
goal-oriented method for constructing
ontologies that meet organization-specific
information needs based on
existing assets (e.g., text
documents) and interests/needs
of stakeholders.
Prerequisites:
None
Introduction to RDF
Instructors:
Mike
Olson, Senior Developer
and Founder, Fourthought,
Inc. and Chime
Ogbuji, Consultant, Fourthought,
Inc.
Description: This introductory
tutorial will provide a conceptual
overview of the Resource Definition
Framework, or RDF. It
will also introduce RDF Schema.
Concrete examples of RDF will
be demonstrated using some
of the currently available
RDF tools.
Prerequisites: None
*please
check back periodically for
updates on speakers and prerequisites.
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