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Subject: [all-prolearn] WS on Ontologies, Semantics and E-Learning at OTM2004 Date: Friday 11 June 2004 08:49 From: Martin Wolpers wolpers@l3s.de To: all-prolearn@agws.dit.upm.es

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=================================================================== OTM 2004 Workshop on Ontologies, Semantics and E-Learning (WOSE) 28/10/2004 Larnaca, Cyprus ===================================================================

BACKGROUND Ontologies define precisely and formally the semantics of objects and their inter-relationships for a specific application domain. As ontologies enable semantic interoperability between information systems, they are a central notion for the Semantic Web. The application domain for this workshop is (e-)learning. Indeed, many kinds of software and content components, platforms and legacy systems for e-learning exist, commercial and freeware. The challenge is to make this large variety of components interoperable, so that an open, global infrastructure for learning can be tailored to the needs of learners, trainers and teachers. Already, some learning technology standards have XML and/or RDF bindings, which makes them suitable for processing with semantic web technology.

This workshop, in Larnaca, Cyprus, will be held in conjunction with the OTM conference during one day (28/10/2004) of the main conference. The working language is English.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers (from academia and industry) and practitioners and to discuss views on how (future) learning systems will realize interoperability by means of semantics embodied in ontologies, and how this interoperability will benefit the end users. Regular papers as well as position papers may be presented. A selection of position papers will constitute the starting point for a panel discussion on ontology interoperability for e-learning applications with a specific focus on novel opportunities.

The workshop will be organised in a way to highly stimulate interaction amongst the participants. To this aim, an important part of each regular time slot will be reserved for a discussion.

TOPICS The main topic of the workshop will thus be a combination of learning and ontologies or - stated in another way - interoperability of learning applications through formal definitions of the semantics involved.

Specific topics addressed by the workshop are: + Improving interoperability of e-learning systems by means of ontologies + Development and integration of learning ontologies (tools and methods) + (Collaborative) modeling methodologies for e-learning ontologies + Binding learning technology standards to semantic web languages and technologies, + Case studies showing improved learner experience thanks to semantic web technology, + Methods and tools to create annotated and re-usable learning objects.

In addition, papers addressing general purpose semantic web technology are welcomed but should respect the overall topic of the workshop, i.e. they should have a strong focus on learning.

SUBMISSIONS Two kinds of submissions are possible: regular papers reporting on original work (up to 10 pages) and position papers (up to 3 pages). Submit your paper via email to wose04-info@starlab.vub.ac.be . Submissions may be handed in in Postscript, PDF or MS Word format. Use the appropriate LNCS style from the Springer site.

PROCEEDINGS Accepted workshop contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) as a part of the workshop proceedings of the 2004 International On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM). Registering to the OTM conference and WOSE workshop is prerequisite for the paper to be published.

IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for expression of interest (abstract) July 1st, 2004 Deadline for submission: July 4th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 4th, 2004 Camera-ready paper due: August 20th, 2004 OTM'04: October 25th-29th, 2004 WOSE: October 28th

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lora Aroyo, University of Technology, The Netherlands Erik Duval, Hypermedia and Databases Group, KU Leuven, Belgium & ARIADNE Robert Farrell, IBM Inc., USA Peter Greene, MedBiquitous, USA Wayne Hodgins, Autodesk Inc., Petaluma CA, USA Paul LeFrere, Microsoft Inc., Redmond, USA Ambjörn Naeve, Knowledge Management Research Group, KTH Sweden Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Hannover,Germany Tyde Richards, IBM Inc., USA Peter Spyns, STAR Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Frans Van Assche, European Schoolnet, Brussel, Belgium Martin Wolpers, L3S Research Center, Hannover,Germany

CONTACT The web site URL: http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/events/OTM04WOSE . The submission email address: wose04-info@starlab.vub.ac.be .

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Erik Duval (Erik.Duval@cs.kuleuven.ac.be) Department of Computer Science, Hypermedia and Databases Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Peter Spyns (Peter.Spyns@vub.ac.be) Department of Computer Science, Systems Technology and Applications Research Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Martin -- - PROLEARN project manager - Dr.-Ing. Martin Wolpers wolpers@l3s.de L3S Research Center http://www.l3s.de Deutscher Pavillon Tel: +49 (0)511 762 9758 Expo Plaza 1, 30539 Hannover Fax: +49 (0)511 762 9779 Germany Mob: +49 (0)163 762 9734

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