Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline

2015-03-04 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good news for all those who are wondering about Adobe and the semantic web. Larry Masinter (http://larry.masinter.net) will be with us at Sepublica. He will be our keynote speaker with "Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline”. Larry will also participate in our round table, so if you wa

Keynote: Larry Masinter (Adobe) at Sepublica

2015-02-26 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good news for all those who are wondering about Adobe and the semantic web. Larry Masinter (http://larry.masinter.net) will be with us at Sepublica. He will be our keynote speaker with "Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline”. Larry will also participate in our round table, so if you wa

challenge us with your submission

2015-02-15 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
news, and scholarly publishing * Publishing data-driven arguments for general news consumption or in scholarly papers * Historical changes in publishing since the advent of online publishing: what is going right? Organizing Committee * Phillip Lord * Alexander Garcia Castro * S

format free workshop, SePublica 2015: Do show, do not tell!

2015-01-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
shing data-driven arguments for general news consumption or in scholarly papers * Historical changes in publishing since the advent of online publishing: what is going right? Organizing Committee * Phillip Lord * Alexander Garcia Castro * Sarven Capadisli * Jodi Schneider -- Alex

Sepublica 2014

2014-03-16 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

What is a computable document?

2014-03-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

what is a data paper?

2014-02-27 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

what is a data paper?

2014-02-27 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

Scholarly communication, what, where and why

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

Scholarly communication, what, where and why

2014-01-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced b

Get the good stuff out of PDFs

2013-05-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Join us in Montpellier for a one-day event to hack on scholarly PDFs! Do you have tools that may help us to extract information from PDFs? send us an email so that we can include them in the hackathon. Would you like to extract citations from existing PDFs? Wouldn't it be cool if we, scholars, d

Research and Polemics at Sepublica

2013-05-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
We are pleased to invite you all to the Sepublica Workshop (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/). We are having a full day workshop on the 26th. Peter Murray Rust is one of our keynote speakers; we are having news from the American Psychological Association as well as from the Cochrane Organiz

Research and Polemics at Sepublica

2013-05-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
We are pleased to invite you all to the Sepublica Workshop. We are having a full day workshop on the 26th. Peter Murray Rust is one of our keynote speakers; we are having news from the American Psychological Association as well as from the Cochrane Organization, how are they facing the transition?

ESWC Jailbreaking the PDF hackathon

2013-05-08 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good News All! The upcoming "Jailbreaking the PDF" hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) now has a venue. We will convene Monday morning, May 27 at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement Superieur (ABES): http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES. There is no registrat

Call for Polemics at SePublica 2013

2013-05-08 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
There is much controversy in the world of publishing and semantic publishing needs to both create waves in publishing and to ride the waves of change approaching in the world of publishing. We therefore invite statements for presentation at a discussion session at SePublica 2013 at ESWC in Montpell

Hackathon at ESWC

2013-04-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi all, we are having a Hackathon while at the ESWC. May 27 in Montpillier, France. Theme: The ability to extract meaningful, machine-interpretable data from scholarly publications in PDF form is a big challenge. Several open source libraries exist that attempt to automate this process, but

Call for Polemics

2013-04-10 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for Polemics at SePublica 2013 There is much controversy in the world of publishing and semantic publishing needs to both create waves in publishing and to ride the waves of change approaching in the world of publishing. We therefore invite statements for presentation at a discussion session

[bioportal-announce] SePublica Semantic Publishing Workshop@ESWC

2013-02-08 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
For any enquiries. *** Organizing Committee *** Alexander Garcia Castro, alexgarc...@gmail.com, Florida State University Christoph Lange, math.semantic@gmail.com, University of Birmingham Phillip Lord, phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk, University of Newcastle Robert Stevens, robert.stev

Sepublica (ESWC workshop), Keynote: Robert Stevens

2012-05-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Sepublica (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org) Dear all, Robert Stevens will be our keynote speaker. The tittle of his talk will be "Semantic publishing: What does it all mean anyway?" Robert will open our afternoon session. From 2 to 5pm we will be discussing issues related to semantics in publicati

Re: HCLS - visualization task force?

2012-03-13 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi all, it was indeed an interesting meeting. Definitely the topic is really interesting, here is a nice review paper about visualizing linked data: Semantic Web 2 (2011) 89–124 89 DOI 10.3233/SW-2011-0037 IOS Press Approaches to visualising Linked Data: A survey Editor(s): Krzysztof Janowicz, P

SEPUBLICA extended deadline

2012-02-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Deadline extended: March 4 http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transitio

Sepublica, extended deadline

2012-02-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Deadline extended: March 4 http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transitio

Semantic Web and Ontologies in Scholarly Communication

2012-02-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

How is the paper an interface, gateway, to the web of data?

2012-02-09 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Scholarly communication, the next generation

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Future of Scholarly Communication

2012-01-09 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

2011-12-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Olivier, this is similar to the Ontolog forum main topic for 2011 "making the case for ontologies"; a bit closer to those discussions we had the OCAS (Ontologies Come of Age in the Semantic Web) workshop. I have found it difficult to make the case for semantic technologies with mainstream tech peop

Ontologies Come of Age workshop proceedings

2011-11-16 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Dear all, the Ontologies Come of Age workshop proceedings have been published; they are available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-809 The maturity of ontologies as components of production software as well as the promise of the Semantic Web were presented in 2001, “The Semantic Web: Why, What, and Ho

Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!

2011-10-23 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
*Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!* At 9AM on the 24th Deborah will be opening the workshop, u cant miss it!! For more information visit us at ocas.mywikipaper.org -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html http://www.li

Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!

2011-10-20 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
*Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!* At 9AM on the 24th Deborah will be opening the workshop, u cant miss it!! For more information please visit us at ocas.mywikipaper.org -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html http:/

Ontologies Come of Age extended deadline

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Deadline has been extended: August 22 Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where,

Ontologies Come of Age

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies a

How are ontologies being used?

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies are being used in several applications, bu

Ontologies Come of Age OCAS at ISWC2011

2011-07-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies ar

Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 16 June

2011-06-16 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
if "*Structured protocols* and experimental results" is added to the High Level Use cases then in the Life Sciences domain there should also be: Biomedical experimental data repositories: although experimental protocols, methods and datasets are related, they are not always openly accessible and

Semantic Challenge

2011-06-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi Everybody, This is a quick reminder regarding the OCAS Challenge (OCAS, ISWC 2011 Workshop, see http://ocas.mywikipaper.org). The Challenge is domain independent; we want to see SW technology and ontologies in action. Papers submitted to other workshops and Challenges are welcome. We are intere

OCAS Workshop and Challenge

2011-05-31 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web, OCAS2011 Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) October 23rd or 24th, 2011 Bonn, Germany Also, OCAS Challenge: Prizes First place: US$ 2000 Second place: US$ 1000 Three thir

OCAS Workshop and Challenge

2011-05-31 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web, OCAS2011 Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) October 23rd or 24th, 2011 Bonn, Germany Also, OCAS Challenge: Prizes First place: US$ 2000 Second place: US$ 1000 Three thir

Re: HCLS new member: Mikel Egaña Aranguren (UPM, Spain)

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hola Mike, bienvenido. On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Mikel Egaña Aranguren wrote: > Hi; > > My name is Mikel Egaña Aranguren, and I have just joined the HCLS IG on > behalf of the UPM, Spain. Some of you already know me but a presentation is > due, so that we can figure out in which areas of t

Re: HCLS Scientific Discourse Call Monday, 11 April 2011 10 am EST, 3 PM BST: talk by Jodi Schneider

2011-04-11 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi Jodi, nice talk. As a general question, shouldn't the description of experiments be something to be described by domain specific ontologies? Also, there are repositories for experiments, e.g Array express for microarrays; there are also minimal standards for reporting several experimental pro

SW supporting open scientific publications

2011-03-09 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) – http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) – http://www.eswc2011.org May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer: “Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment” SUBMISS

Semantics in Publications

2011-02-28 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) http://www.eswc2011.org May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK. “Utopia Documents and Th

Semantic Web in Publications, SePublica, extended deadline

2011-02-25 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) http://www.eswc2011.org May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK. “Utopia Documents and The S

Best paper award -Sepublica, ESWC workshop

2011-02-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
ELSEVIER BEST SEMANTIC PAPER AWARD at SEPUBLICA, an ESWC worksop. The Best Paper Award is presented to the author(s) deemed to have written the paper covering the most innovative and feasible proposal concerning semantic publishing in the workshop. All submissions

Best paper award -Sepublica, ESWC workshop

2011-02-01 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) http://www.eswc2011.org May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK. “Utopia Documents a

Semantic Publications at ESWC

2011-01-11 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) http://www.eswc2011.org May 29th or 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK. “Utopia Documents a

SERES ISWC workshop extended deadline -30/August/2010

2010-08-28 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Deadline extended until the 30th of August. Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion. Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for t

SERES ISWC workshop extended deadline -final

2010-08-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion. Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010) http://www.ontologydyn

ISWC Workshop, Semantic Repositories, SERES.

2010-08-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion. Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010) http://www.ontologydy

Natasha Noy and Peter Yim keynote speakers at SERES (ISWC), CfP -Semantic Repositories

2010-08-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
== CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010) http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/ at the 9th International S

Natasha Noy and Peter Yim keynote speakers at SERES (ISWC)

2010-07-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010). == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

Natasha Noy and Peter Yim keynote speakers at SERES (ISWC)

2010-07-11 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010). == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

ISWC SERES workshop, Natasha Noy and Peter Yim keynote speakers

2010-07-07 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010). == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

ISWC Workshop, SERES CfP

2010-06-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
== CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010) http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/seres2010/ at the 9th International Se

Re: W3C working group on bibliographic data and semantic web - details please

2010-04-07 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Sounds interesting, let us all know. cheers. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM, David Shotton wrote: > Can anyone please confirm this rumour and provide details? > > "The rumor mill tells us that the World Wide Web > consortiumis forming a working group on library > bibliographi

ORES2010 extended deadline: March 7th. Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah!

2010-03-01 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah! > http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php > > ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic > Web > ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - > htt

CFP, Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web

2010-02-02 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ Heraklion, Greece - Deadline: March 1, 2010 The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of on

CFP, Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web

2010-01-12 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ Heraklion, Greece - Deadline: March 1, 2010 The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of on

Re: The W3C mailing lists will be limited to interest group participants.

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
I am not an active participant, but I am an active lurker. I find the discussions very important and useful. It would be a pity that membership is required; if such a policy is implemented the resulting mailing list wouldn't be the same as it wouldn't receive the input from a broader community; by