Title	Ontology Development for Seamless Natural Resources Data Exchange and Sharing
Chair	Seishi Ninomiya (NARO), Asanee Kawtrakul (KU)
Objective	Ontology Development for Seamless Natural Resources Data Exchange and Sharing: Language Barriers are obstacles for communication; therefore it is vital to have multilingual translation and ontology. Multilingual translation and ontology is one of the information technology used as tools for linking knowledge and information of diverse languages. This will eventually bring information societies together and create a better understanding.
Target Audience	Ontology and Multilingual communities
Expected No. of Participants	15-20
Session Chair & Speakers	Session Chairs: Asanee Kawtrakul (KU) and Margherita Sini (FAO) 09:00-10:30 (AG-WG) Ontology-Standard and Representation (chair Asanee Kawtrakul) 1.Title: Opening Plenary Speaker: Margherita Sini, Seishi Ninomiya and Asanee Kawtrakul 2.Title: Technology and standard Keynote Speaker:Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria 3.Title: Accessing Distributed Meteorological Data using Ontology Speaker:Kiura T., Yamawaka A., Yu X., and Ninomiya S. 4.Title: Open Forum: How to profit from available multilingual resources by using the standards (SKOS, TBX, OWL ). What are the problems? 11:00-12:30 Ontology - Applications and Tools (chair Margherita Sini) 1.Title: Tools and Applications Keynote Speaker:Prof. Balai - IIT India 2.Title: Key step to Ontology and Cross language KM: AOS/CS workbench Speaker: Margherita Sini and Asanee Kawtrakul 3.Title: Integrating global observation data by ontology development Speaker: Masahiko Nagai, Shigenobu Tachizuka, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Takashi Oguchi, Hiromichi Fukui 14:00-15:30 (AG-WG) Ontology (chair Asanee Kawtrakul) 1.Title: Round Table Discussion Speaker: Gerhard Budin, Balai, Margherita Sini , Seishi Ninomiya, Asanee Kawtrakul Experience Sharing (All) 2.Title: Open Forum: Research Extension (China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos and/or representative from Industries)
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Last Updated 20 Jun 2006