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1 WonderWeb Dissemination and Use Plan WonderWeb: Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web Editors: Sean Bechhofer & Ian Horrocks (VUM) with contributions from Heiner Stuckenschmidt (VUA) Daniel Oberle (AIFB) Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR) University of Manchester Kilburn Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Identifier Del 27 Class Deliverable Version 1.0 Date Status final Distribution public Lead Partner VUM

2 WonderWeb Project This document forms part of a research project funded by the IST Programme of the Commission of the European Communities as project number IST For further information about WonderWeb, please contact the project co-ordinator: Ian Horrocks The Victoria University of Manchester Department of Computer Science Kilburn Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: Fax: wonderweb-info@lists.man.ac.uk ii

3 Table of Contents WONDERWEB DISSEMINATION APPROACH... 1 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER... 2 FREE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM... 5 LADSEB-CNR... 7 INSTITUTE AIFB, UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE... 9 iii

4 WonderWeb Dissemination Approach The main objectives of the WonderWeb project are: o The development of a family of ontology languages that extend existing Web standards while maintaining maximum backwards compatibility. o The development of the comprehensive technical infrastructure and tool support that will be required both within the project and by real world applications in the SemanticWeb. o The development of a set of foundational ontologies covering a wide range of application domains. o The development of a framework of techniques and methodologies that will provide an engineering approach to the building and use of ontologies. The preliminary mechanism for dissemination for the WonderWeb project will be through research publications, international events, international presentations and education (courses on Semantic Web related topics). In addition, resources such as the project web site ( will be used to publish results and recommendations. Members of the consortium are closely involved with standardisation efforts such as the W3C s WebOnt 1 committee and this will provide a further route for dissemination of the project s results and findings. The Industrial Advisory Board provides links between the consortium members and key representatives for the World s leading providers and users of Web technology. Project workshops targeted at the Industrial Board are planned. Links to related projects (such as OntoWeb 2 ) will be maintained, as will links to related work in the US such as that being undertaken in the DARPA DAML programme. More detailed dissemination plans for each individual partner are provided in the following sections

5 University of Manchester Partner role and nature of intended results. The Information Management Group, which forms part of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, is a world leader in the areas of data and knowledge management, ontologies, the Semantic Web and grid computing. The main results from Wonderweb will be the development of technical infrastructure and tool support for the Semantic Web. In particular, this will consist in the development of a family of ontology languages, in the linking of existing tools and services to the KAON-Server, and in the extension of reasoning support services. Target groups for dissemination and use. The dissemination strategy aims mainly at research publications, international events, international presentations and education (courses on Semantic Web related topics). Dissemination actions up to Milestone 2 (month 6). Publications: o Ian Horrocks. DAML+OIL: a Reason-able Web Ontology Language, Proc. of EDBT 2002, pp 2 13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol Springer Verlag, 2002 o Ian Horrocks. DAML+OIL: a description logic for the semantic web. IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Vol 25, No 1, pp 4 9, o Ian Horrocks. Backtracking and Qualified Number Restrictions: Some Preliminary Results, Proc. of the 2002 Int. Workshop on Description Logics (DL-2002), 2002 o Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks. Semantic Web Ontology Reasoning in the SHOQDn Description Logic, Proc. of the 2002 Int. Workshop on Description Logics (DL-2002), 2002 o Ian Horrocks. An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends and Controversies, o Ian Horrocks and Sergio Tessaris. Querying the Semantic Web: a Formal Approach, Proc of 1st International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 9-12, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2342, Springer- Verlag, 2002 Edited Works: o Ian Horrocks and James Hendler. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002 Springer- Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2342 Proceedings of the First International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 9-12, Organisational Activities o Ian Horrocks. PC chair of ISWC 2002; PC chair of DL 2002; PC member of KR 2002; PC member of WWW 2002; PC member of FLAIRS 2002; PC member of ECAI 2002; PC member of Tableaux 2002; PC member of KI

6 o Ian Horrocks. Member of the ETAI (Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence) editorial committee for the areas of "Concept-based Knowledge Representation" and "The Semantic Web". o Ian Horrocks. Member of the Joint EU/US Agent Markup Language Committee. o Ian Horrocks. Secretary of the Semantic Web Science Foundation o Sean Bechhofer. PC member of WWW2002; PC member of Semantic Web Workshop at WWW2002; PC member of EON2002 (Evaluation of Ontologybased Tools), Workshop at EKAW2002. Presentations & Talks: o Invited talks at EDBT 2002, AISB 2002, WES/CAiSE 2002 (Ian Horrocks) o Seminar at HP labs Bristol, 27 Feb 2002 Meetings: o W3C Web Ontology working group meeting, New Jersey, USA, January 2002 o DL Implementation Workshop, Manchester UK, January 2002 o Wonderweb Kick-Off Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 31st January - 1 st February o Rules Workshop, Dagstuhl, Germany, 4-8 February 2002 o W3C Web Ontology working group meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-9 April 2002 o Wonderweb Project Meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany, 21st - 22nd May 2002 Future dissemination activities Organisational: o WWW2003 Vice Chair for Semantic Web Presentations: o Invited talks at CADE 2002, NETTAB 2002, XML UK meeting o DL tutorial at ECAI 2002, Lyon, 23 June 2002 o Seminar at University of Edinburgh, 22 August 2002 Accepted Papers o Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider and Frank van Harmelen. Reviewing the Design of DAML+OIL: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web. Proc. of the 18th Nat. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI- 2002), o Ian Horrocks and Ulrike Sattler. Optimised Reasoning for SHIQ, European Conference on Articial Intelligence, ECAI'02, 2002 Submitted Papers o Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks. Extending Datatype Support in Web Ontology Reasoning. ODBASE

7 Planned Papers o Relevant papers will be submitted to a number of upcoming conferences and workshops, including IJCAI 2003 and ISWC

8 Free University of Amsterdam Partner role and intended results: VUA is a university leading in semantic web research. The specific role of the VUA in the WonderWeb project is a contribution to the further development of a standard ontology language for the World Wide Web and the development of advanced techniques for ontology management such as Ontology mapping, versioning, refinement and modularization. Target groups for dissemination and use: As a university institution, the main target groups for our dissemination and use activities are: (1) the relevant international research communities in academia and industry; (2) the students (Master as well as PhD degree) we teach; (3) companies with which we have collaborative relationships in applied research and/or business education. As in all our projects, this is achieved by international publications, presentations and talks; courses and degree work in our regular curricula; and by bilateral and multilateral project collaborations. Dissemination actions up to Milestone 2 (month 6). Organization of Related Workshops o Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-02) in Lyon, France (Heiner Stuckenschmidt) o Workshop on Knowledge Translation for the Semantic Web at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-02) in Lyon, France (Michel Klein) o Workshop on Ontologies and Multi-Agent Systems at the International Conference on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management and (Heiner Stuckenschmidt) Book, Journal and Magazine Publications o Y. Ding, D. Fensel, M. Klein, and B. Omelayenko.The Semantic Web: Yet Another Hip?, Data and Knowledge Engineering, 41(3), p , o J. Davis, D. Fensel, and F. van Harmelen. Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management,Wiley, to appear o D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Lieberman, and W. Wahlster (eds.). Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, Boston, to appear o Peter Patel-Schneider, Ian Horrocks, Frank van Harmelen. Reviewing the Design of DAML+OIL: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web (AAAI'02) o Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, Frank van Harmelen. Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema (ISWC'02) o Frank van Harmelen. The complexity of the Web ontology language (IEEE- IS'02) o Frank van Harmelen. How the Semantic Web will change KR: challenges and opportunities for a new research agenda (KER'02) 5

9 Other activities o OntoWeb Thematic Network on the use of Ontologies for Knowledge Management and electronic commerce (Dieter Fensel) o OntoWeb Special Interest Group on Ontology Language Standardization (Frank van Harmelen) o Tutorial on the Semantic Web at the first international Conference on Knowledge Capture, Victoria Canada (Dieter Fensel, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Frank van Harmelen) o Invited Talk on Semantic Web Languages at the Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap, Utrecht, The Netherlands (Heiner Stuckenschmidt) Teaching Activities o Advanced Course 'Semantic Web' of the Dutch Graduate School SIKS (Frank van Harmelen, Dieter Fensel, Heiner Stuckenschmidt) o Master Course 'Web-based Knowledge Representation' (Frank van Harmelen, Marta Sabou, Michel Klein, Jeen Broekstra) Dissemination to Practitioners o W3C Semantic Web Working Group (Frank van Harmelen) Planned future dissemination activities o Master Course 'Intelligent Web Applications' (Frank van Harmelen, Heiner Stuckenschmidt) o Tutorial on the Semantic Web at the Conference on Professional Knowledge Management 2003 (Steffen Staab, Heiner Stuckenschmidt) o Special Track 'Agents and Ontologies' at Flairs 2003 (Heiner Stuckenschmidt) o Book on Semantic Web Technologies and Applications (Dieter Fensel, Heiner Stuckenschmidt) 6

10 LADSEB-CNR Partner role and intended results. The Conceptual Modelling and Knowledge Engineering group at LADSEB-CNR has a leading role in ontology design, especially for what concerns well-founded methodologies for ontology development grounded on formal philosophical and linguistic theories. Its role in WonderWeb is to develop a library of foundational ontologies as described in WP3, as well as methodological guidelines for the design of well-founded general ontologies. The group will also participate to content standardization activities. Target groups for dissemination and use. Due to its strongly interdisciplinary approach and to the generality of the problems addressed, the target groups extend far beyond those specifically interested to the WonderWeb project. In particular, besides the relevant research communities in academia and industry involved in Semantic Web technologies, other target groups are the communities working on database (and information systems) conceptual modelling, object-oriented conceptual modelling, qualitative reasoning, natural language semantics. Dissemination actions up to Milestone 2 (month 6). Accepted international publications: o Gangemi, A., Guarino, N., Masolo, C., and Oltramari, A Restructuring Wordnet's top-level. AI Magazine, fall 2002 (in press). o Guarino, N. and Welty, C Evaluating Ontological Decisions with OntoClean. Communications of the ACM, 45(2): o Oltramari, A., Gangemi, A., Guarino, N., and Masolo, C Restructuring WordNet's Top-Level: the OntoClean approach. In Proceedings of OntoLex2002: Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources. Las Palmas, Canary Islands. o Oltramari, A., Gangemi, A., Guarino, N., and Masolo, C DOLCE: a Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering (preliminary report). In Proceedings of 13 th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), Siguenza, Spain (in press). Presentations/talks: o Panel at the 8 th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2002): Are upper level ontologies worth the effort? (Toulouse, FR, 23 April 2002, Nicola Guarino, Jim Hendler, Brandon Bennett, Alan Rector, Chris Welty) o Keynote lecture at the Workshop on Formal Ontology, Knowledge Representation and Intelligent Systems for the World Wide Web: Foundational Ontologies for the Semantic Web. (Toulouse, FR, 20 April 2002, Nicola Guarino) o Presentation of WonderWeb activities on foundational ontologies at the meeting of the OntoWeb SIG on Ontology-based Content Standards (Chia, I, 14 June 2002, Nicola Guarino) 7

11 o Invited talk at PhD course in Computer Science organized by the Universities of Brescia and Milano (14 January 2002, Brescia, I, Nicola Guarino) Other Activities o LADSEB-CNR is leading a workpackage (and a SIG) on ontology-based content standards in the OntoWeb thematic network o LADSEB-CNR is also a subcontractor of Eureka project E! 2235 IKF (Information and Knowledge Fusion, where some of the results of their work on foundational ontologies will be used. Planned future dissemination activities o Further scientific publications and presentations, including: * a tutorial on Ontologies and the Semantic Web at the AgentLink Summer School (with Asun Gomez Perez, Italy, July 2002) * a tutorial on Formal Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modelling at the EKAW-02 conference (with Aldo Gangemi, Spain, October 2002) * a tutorial on Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling at the 21 st Int. Conf. on Conceptual Modelling (ER2002) (with Luc Schneider, Finland, October 2002) * an invited presentation at the meeting of the CEN/ISSS ecommerce workshop (Italy, October 2002) * an invited presentation at the workshop on Ontology for Biology (Germany, November 2002) o Exploitation of the DOLCE ontology by interested users: expressions of interest in using the preliminary foundational ontology developed at LADSEB-CNR have been made by the University of Amsterdam, OntologyWorks Inc, the FAO project on Agricultural Ontology Service, the GOL project at the University of Leipzig, the WordNet group at the University of Princeton, the CIDOC-CRM initiative on museum data representation. o Research education: on PhD student just started his work partly within WonderWeb, in co-tutorship with Imperial College. At least one other PhD student is planned for the future. o Exchanges with other EU-IST projects (forthcoming) 8

12 Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Partner role and nature of intended results. The Institute AIFB from the University of Karlsruhe is a research institution leading in the area of Semantic Web, Knowledge Management and Ontologies. Main result in Wonderweb is the development of technical infrastructure and tool support. The main organisational unit and infrastructure kernel is KAON-Server connecting and adapting existing clients. Target groups for dissemination and use. The dissemination strategy aims mainly at research publications, international events, international presentations and education (courses on Semantic Web related topics). Dissemination actions up to Milestone 2 Publications o T. Sollazzo, S. Handschuh, S. Staab, M. Frank, N. Stojanovic. Semantic Web Service Architecture Evolving Web Service Standards towards the Semantic Web. In: Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference. Pensacola, Florida, May 16-18, AAAI Press. o S. Staab, P. Clark, J. Hendler, I. Horrocks, P. Patel-Schneider, M.-C. Rousset, G. Schreiber, M. Uschold, F. van Harmelen. Ontologies KISSES in Standardization. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends & Controversies, 17(2), Mar/Apr 2002, pp A. Maedche, S. Staab, R. Studer, Y. Sure, R. Volz. SEAL Tying Up Information Integration and Web Site Management by Ontologies. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, March 2002: o L. Stojanovic, N. Stojanovic, R. Volz, Migrating data-intensive Web Sites into the Semantic Web, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2002, Madrid, Spain 2002/03/10 A. Maedche, S. Staab. Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Tourism Information Systems. In: Karl Woeber, Andrew Frew, Martin Hitz (eds.), Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference for Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism, ENTER Springer Verlag, Innsbruck, Austria, 23rd - 25th January o Poster; R. Volz, B. Motik, A. Maedche, KAON SERVER A Semantic Web Management System, ISWC International Semantic Web Conference (Poster-Proceedings), Sardinia, Italy, Jun 9-12, 2002 o Editorial; M. Frank, N. Noy, S. Staab (eds.). Semantic Web 2002 Proceedings of the Workshop at WWW Honolulu, Hawaii, May 7, CEUR Workshop proceedings, Organisational Activities o Metadata Chair; S. Staab, 1 st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC- 2002), Sardinia, Italy, June, 2002 o Co-chair; S. Staab, N. Fridman Noy, M. Frank, SemanticWeb-2002 Workshop on the Semantic Web (WWW-2002 Conference), Hawaii, USA, 7 th May

13 Presentations & Talks IST Project WonderWeb: o Tutorial; Staab, S., Maedche, A., Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications at the 1 st International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2002, Chia, Sardinia, Italy, June 10, 2002 o Staab, S., Ontology Engineering, Fifth International Baltic Conference on DB and IS, Tallinn, Estonia, June 3-6, 2002 o Staab, S., Handschuh, S., Nejdl, W., Handling Metadata, Developers Day at WWW2002, Honululu, Hawaii, May 11, 2002 o Volz, R., Ontoweb/Webont, Hewlett-Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto, USA, 27 th June o Volz, R., Views for the Semantic Web, Dagstuhl Seminar on Information Integration, Dagstuhl, Germany, Apr 29- May 3, 2002 o Staab, S., SEAL Tying Up Information Integration and Web Site Management by Ontologies, IRST Trento, 27 March 2002 o Staab, S., Semantic Patterns, Dagstuhl Seminar Rule Markup Techniques, Dagstuhl, 6 th February 2002 Meetings o Wonderweb Kick-Off Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 31 st January 1 st February o Wonderweb Project Meeting, Karlsruhe, Germany, 21 st 22 nd May 2002 Future dissemination activities Editorials o Editorial; S. Staab, R. Studer (eds.). Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems. International Handbooks on Information Systems, Springer Verlag. o Editorial; S. Handschuh, S. Staab (eds.). Annotation for the Semantic Web. IOS Press. Presentations o Tutorial; Staab, S., Maedche, A., Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI-2002, Lyon, France, July, 21 st, 2002 Accepted Papers o R. Volz, KAON Towards a large scale Semantic Web, 3 rd International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies EC-Web 2002, Sep 2-6, 2002, Aix en Provence, France o S. Staab, R. Studer, Y. Sure, R. Volz, SEAL a SEmantic portal with content management functionality. In: Gaining Insight from Research Information. CRIS 2002 Proceedings of the 6 th Conference on Current Research Information Systems, August 29-31, 2002, Kassel, Germany o Maedche, B. Motik, L. Stojanovic, R. Studer, R. Volz, Managing Multiple Ontologies and Ontology Evolution in Ontologging, IIP-2002, Aug 25-30, 2002, Montreal, Canada 10

14 o N. Stojanovic, L. Stojanovic, R. Volz, A reverse engineering approach for migrating data-intensive web sites to the Semantic Web, IIP-2002, August 25-30, 2002, Montreal, Canada (Part of the IFIP World Computer Congress WCC2002) o R. Volz, A. Maedche, D. Oberle, Towards Modularizing Semantic Web, Proceedings of ECAI Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Interoperability, 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 22 nd 2002,Lyon, France Submitted Papers o R. Volz, D. Oberle, R. Studer, On Views in the Semantic Web, 2nd International Workshop on Databases, Documents, and Information Fusion (DBFUSION 02), July 4-5, 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany o R. Volz, A reverse engineering approach for migrating data-intensive web sites to the Semantic Web, 4 th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (IIWAS2002), Sept. 10 th 12 th, Bandung, Indonesia. Planned Papers, Tutorials o Tutorial; R.Studer, R. Volz, Semantic Web, 3 rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, 12-14th December, 2002, Singapore. o Tutorial; R. Studer, R. Volz, Ontologies and Semantic Web, International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics, October 28 - November 1, 2002, University of California, Irvine, USA o Papers on views in the Semantic Web to Database Conference 11

KAON The Karlsruhe Ontology and Semantic Web Meta Project

KAON The Karlsruhe Ontology and Semantic Web Meta Project Alexander Maedche 1 & Steffen Staab 2 1 Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany, http://www.fzi.de/wim 2 Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe,