Invitation and Call for Participation:
"SHARING THE KNOWLEDGE"
International CIDOC CRM Symposium March 26 2003 2:00 - 6:00 March 27 2003 9:00 - 5:00
The CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group and the Smithsonian Institution invite you to a two-day International Symposium designed to bring together researchers and practitioners in information provision and exchange, be it within organizations or on the envisaged Semantic Web, in the area of scientific and cultural heritage, with the goal to present and discuss technical, organizational, and philosophical issues of effectively sharing knowledge among museums, libraries, and archives and integrating information within cultural institutions.
The program will comprise invited talks, submitted papers, and panel discussions. Paper submissions are welcome on the following topics:
- scalable knowledge sharing architectures for intra-organizational data;
- scalable knowledge sharing architectures for the Internet;
- key components for knowledge sharing: ontologies, contextual information, identification, persistence;
- documentation practices enabling effective knowledge sharing;
- metadata schemes for cross-domain searching;
- success stories of knowledge sharing;
- social, organizational, and technical factors;
- the role of trust in knowledge sharing.
A panel discussion will identify key directions for research and advocacy for the immediate future to bring us closer to shared and integrated knowledge in contemporary society.
All contributions will be Web-published on the CIDOC CRM Web-site (http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr). Presentations may be 15 minutes or 30 minutes. The Program committee reserves the right to refuse submissions. Proposals, accompanied by an abstract of 100-300 words, and short cv, should be sent to Dr. Martin Doerr, martin@ics.fort.gr
by November 30, 2002.The Symposium will be held at the Smithsonian's International Center in Washington, D.C. A ttendance will be free and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and meal costs.
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Martin Doerr chair CIDOC CRM SIG --
Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(810)391609 | Project Leader SIS | Email: martin@ics.forth.gr | | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl |
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Thomas Enzi Thomas.Enzi@wu-wien.ac.at Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Research and Development, UNIVERSAL (http://www.ist-universal.org/) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Department of Information Systems, New Media Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Abteilung für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Neue Medien Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Augasse 2-6, A-1090 Vienna, Austria http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at Tel: (+43-1) 31 336 x4417, Fax: (+43-1) 31 336 x746 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>