International Semantic Web Conference 2006 Notes

SPARQL and RDFstore

• Sesame - http://www.openrdf.org/ free, open source rdfstore implementation with SPARQL and SWRL engines
• SWRL - http://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/ semantic web rule language
• iTag - http://itagsoftware.awswa.com/ collaborative tagging with some rdfstore component
• Foafing the Music - http://foafing-the-music.iua.upf.edu/index.html Semantic Web Challenge application using FOAF ontology and rdfstore
• Mulgara - http://mulgara.org/ scalable RDF database written in java
• Tucana - http://tucana.es.northropgrumman.com/solutions/products.htm rdfstore implementation (note: commercial product)

Virtual Observatories

• VSTO - http://www.vsto.org/ Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory; uses ontology (vsto.owl) to query solar terrestrial (STP) data; Peter Fox and Deborah McGuinness^?

Workflows

• Yolanda Gil - parallel workflows with Pegasus / Wings
  • http://www.isi.edu/~blythe/papers/ieee-is-04.html
  • http://pegasus.isi.edu/pegasus/publications.htm

Workshops, conferences, tutorials

• OWL-S tutorial - http://owlseditor.semwebcentral.org/documents/tutorial.pdf OWL web services
• Ontology rules workshops - C. Goble advised contact with Matthew Horridge at Manchester

Other papers, talks and software

• Tagging in Complex Systems - Harry Halpin, Edinburg, http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/author/1001042.html
• Rule-ML - http://www.ruleml.org/ rule markup language
• X Media - http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/x-media/ knowledge sharing and reuse
• ConsVIsor^? - http://68.162.250.6:8080/consvisor/ tool for checking consistency of OWL ontologies from Vistology Inc.
• WEESA - http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/weesa/ maps XML schema to OWL ontologies, rdf or html
• SAHA - (paper) semantic annotation tool based in Finland; project encourages shared ontologies
• EKOSS - http://www.ekoss.org/index.php?session=2006111040535lflbEQLrgT3tgZcUX9sB "share, discover integrate expert knowledge"
• OntoWiki^? - http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/OntoWiki semantic wiki
• TopQuadrant^? - talk discussing table conversion to OWL; tables are OWL classes, columns are OWL datatype properties - applications for IVOA catalogue group?

Further ICSW 2006 Notes

• ICSW2006 - notes from NormanGray

-- ElizabethAuden - 09 Nov 2006