Events/20070209/DefiningImageAccess-ToolsAndTechnologies

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Defining Image Access

Tools and Technologies for Semantic Interoperability Across Scholarly Repositories

The purpose of this meeting was explore a number of developments relevant to the JISC Defining Image Access Project, as part of our preliminary scoping activities.

Speaker presentations are available from links within the agenda [These links will be activated once speakers have uploaded their presentations!]

David and Graham's combined notes from the meeting are available here.

Date

9 Feb 2007

Time

10:00 registration; 10:30 start; 17:00 finish.. Lunch and refreshments provided.

Location

The Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford. Map, location 44. (Parking available, or taxi from the station.)

Invitees

All interested BioImageWeb Consortium members and Defining Image Access Consultant Partners, plus invited speakers as detailed in the Agenda below.

A list of attendees is to be found in the discussion tab for this page.

Agenda

10:00 - welcome and coffee

10:30 - Introduction (David Shotton, Oxford University).

10:40 - CIDOC-CRM Core and other relevant projects - Brian Fuchs (Imperial College, London). Presentation here. Dolores Iorizza was unfortunately indisposed, and we are grateful to Brian for standing in for her at short notice) (Relevant links: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/crm_core/demo/ ; http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/working_editions_cidoc.html; http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12828/; http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/DefiningImageAccess/RelatedWork#CIDOC_CRM_Core).

11:10 - Discussion

11:25 - Coffee

11:45 - OAI-ORE and the Pathways Project - Julie Allinson (UKOLN, Bath). Presentation here. (Relevant links: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/OAI-ORE; http://www.infosci.cornell.edu/pathways/; http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/DefiningImageAccess/RelatedWork#ORE).

12:15 - Discussion

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - mSpace - Max Wilson (ECS, Southampton). Presentation here. (Relevant links: http://www.mspace.fm/; http://beta.mspace.fm/).

Semantic Portals, SWED and IUGO - Nikki Rogers (ILRT, Bristol). Unfortunately, Nikki Rogers was prevented from attending because of an illness in her family. Here presentation is nevertheless available here. (Relevant links: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/sem-portal.html; http://www.swed.org.uk/swed/index.html, http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=vre_iugo; http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/DefiningImageAccess/RelatedWork#Semantic_portals )

14:00 - Discussion

14:15 - Connotea as a database - Euan Adie (Nature Publishing Group, London). Presentation here. (Relevant links: http://www.connotea.org/; http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/10/connotea_is_a_database_1.html; http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_pals2/project_dictate.aspx; http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/DefiningImageAccess/RelatedWork#Dictate).

14:45 - Discussion

15:00 - Tea

15:30 - Rich Tags - Dan Smith (ECS, Southampton). Presentation here. (Relevant links: http://mspace.fm/projects/richtags/; http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/rich_tags.aspx; http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/DefiningImageAccess/RelatedWork#Rich_Tags).

16:00 - Discussion

16:15 - Finish