Agenda

The Imperial College Internet Centre, CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, DELOS and AHRC e-
Science Support Centre, invite you to attend a workshop focusing on the problems of semantic
interoperability for e-Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities which is intended to examine
research challenges and strategies in the areas of knowledge management, information search, retrieval
and integration, semantic interoperability and knowledge extraction, with the goal of breaking down the
artificial barriers between these disciplines and forging a common research agenda for working across
these traditionally separate domains. The central aim of this workshop is to bring together a group of
international researchers from the arts, humanities and sciences to clarify the extent to which recent
advances in semantic web and e-Science technologies can offer generic solutions to a wide range of
application areas, to examine and challenge preconceptions about the creation and implementation of
non-domain specific ontologies, to evaluate ontology driven semantic interoperability as a strategy for
developing knowledge technologies across multiple heterogeneous collections, and to access new
methods of research that naturally follow from the use of these new technologies. Presentations will be
offered in the areas of Biodiversity, Chemistry, Environmental Informatics, Knowledge Organisation
Systems, Mapping Technologies, Cultural Heritage in Museums, Libraries and Archives. The workshop
will close with a common discussion.
Presentations and a summary of the discussion will be published on the Web. There is no fee for
attending this workshop, but pre-registration is required: please notify Dolores Iorizzo, Imperial College
Internet Centre, if you plan to attend (d.iorizzo@imperial.ac.uk).

Dolores Iorizzo

Workshop Program