Knowledge Federation 2008 - Conference Program
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Overview and Organization
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We are designing the conference to suit the idea of federation. We want to lay the foundations for the field and develop an initial core community. The conference will last three days. Each day has article presentations in the morning and a workshop in the afternoon. Each presentation lasts 45 minutes and is followed by a 10 minute discussion and a 5 minute break. Each afternoon session is organized around a design task. We want to design solutions together. The session begins with a series of short presentations, 5 to 15 minutes, introducing the participants’ previous work, ideas and questions related to the theme. The idea is not to be comprehensive but challenging – what are the key issues? Basic messages? This lasts one hour. (Participants register their short presentations with description and references in advance on the conference website/wiki.) Then the participants split into 3-person teams for one hour and each group creates a solution proposal. After that, for one hour, the groups present their proposals and we work out a common solution in plenum. During the morning and afternoon sessions we will record and federate our interaction and ideas, in ways which will be co-created by the participants between now and the conference, in order to include them into the conference materials that will be published subsequently. Suggestions how to do this will be appreciated! |
Day One
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8:30-9 Registration Morning Session 9 - 12 9-10 Federated Introductory Keynote. Each participant has 5 to 10 minutes to introduce himself and his work, and then explain his motivation, intentions and wishes for the conference and the future of knowledge federation. 10-11 Yuzuru Tanaka Knowledge Federation: Necessity and Required Technologies 11-12 Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Federation as Hypermedia Discourse slides Lunch 12 – 14 Sesame tavern in the vicinity, "Mediterranean and Dubrovnik cuisine, family tradition since 1880" Afternoon Session 14 - 17 Theme 1: KNOWLEDGE FEDERATION FOR WICKED PROBLEMS Our task is to design a knowledge federation scheme that can facilitate solutions to so-called 'wicked problems' such as the climate change, which "defy efforts to delineate their boundaries and to identify their causes." Conference Dinner 19 - 21 Rozarij restaurant in Dubrovnik Old City, local fish specialties & wine. |
Day Two
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Morning Session 9 - 12 9-10 Jack Park Knowledge Gardening as Knowledge Federation slides 10-11 Jean-Pierre Cahier, Socio-Semantic Web paradigm can be used to manage Web2.0 complex architectures of participation : the CARTODD case 11-12 Hendrik Thomas, Bernd Markscheffel, Tobias Redmann From Subjects to Concept Clouds – Why semantic mapping is necessary slides 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse for Knowledge Federation?!... Lunch 12 – 14 Sesame tavern. Afternoon Session 14 – 17 Theme 2: FEDERATED LEARNING Our task is to design a federated knowledge federation course, where everyone in the world can contribute knowledge resources for learners worldwide.
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Day Three
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Morning Session 9 – 12 9-10 Alexander Sigel, Knowledge Federation from a Knowledge Organization Perspective: A Position Paper 10-11 Roy Lachica, Manifesto Prospectus Omniscious Commodum 11-12 Dino Karabeg, What Succeeds the Textbook and the Research Article? Steps Towards a Federated Creation and Communication of Knowledge Lunch 12 – 14 Sesame tavern. Afternoon Session 14 - 17 Theme 3: FEDERATING RESEARCH Our task is to bootstrap academic knowledge federation by becoming the first academic community that will federate its knowledge. 17 – 18 Federated Closing Keynote
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