[esip-semantictech] between-meeting opportunities for ESIP Sem Tech folks

[John Graybeal]

Hi everyone,

At Beth's request I am writing to summarize a few opportunities that we may want to exploit in coming weeks via this email list. More details can be read at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vdHTXbp1G6wiwdyrC0Uw9IKgTgJF4G6vjThR2eNJ-q8/edit

First, rolling off of Adam's presentation of schema.org<http://schema.org/> outcomes, there was a lively discussion of how the Committee might focus on specific semantic targets from the Semantic Roadmap discussed last month. A number of comments emphasized bottom-up approaches that built on getting uptake of specific solutions for common problems, and (if successful) learning to replicate that process for other solutions, and entrain larger organization based on those positive results. We want to continue this discussion via email as we can. For those of you who missed the discussion, have a look at the notes and then chime in (start a new thread please).

A topic we didn't get to was proposing sessions for USTS. The announcement from Pascal is copied below, and Brandon already suggested a Geoscience session. The plan for the Semantic Technologies Committee is to start organizing our thinking about sessions via the Committee's email list, and if necessary Beth can call an extra meeting before the one next month, 24 October if I am not mistaken. ( And again, may I suggest you use Brandon's email or start a new thread for this topic?)

John


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                   U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series
                              US2TS Call for Sessions Proposal
                                        http://us2ts.org/2019/
                                          https://easychair.org/cfp/us2ts2019
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Semantic Web is an inherently multi-disciplinary field. With an ever-growing dependence on the Web and the continuously increasing importance of large-scale data sharing, integration, and reuse, natural science researchers, geoscience, biology, library science, health care, the humanities, just to name a few, have also taken an increasing interest in the Semantic Web.  The U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium (US2TS) series provide a forum to ease the division between computer science, natural science, and academia/government/industry.

We solicit anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web to propose a session for US2TS 2019. A session is any scientifically relevant activity that can fit into a 90 minutes slot (you can also propose a session that takes more than one slot).

Examples of sessions are:

. a panel discussion
. a series of presentations on a topic
. breakout-style discussions on a proposed topic
. a tutorial
. etc.

As the main goal of the Symposium is to foster synergies and collaborations from different fields, we strongly recommend that:
1. At least 2-3 people, preferably from different institutions, propose the session.
2. All the session leaders are asked to confirm and commit to participate at the time of submission.
3. If your proposal already names speakers or panelists, you must state whether their participation is already confirmed.
We encourage session proposals about cross-discipline topics which are of concern for participants from existing sub-communities

Submission Guidelines
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Please prepare a (max) 2 page submission indicating:

. Name of the session
. Topic: please indicate which cross-discipline topics the session will tackle. Here you can also specify if there is any particular vertical of interest (e.g. legal, life science, medical, publisher/scholarly data, cultural heritage, library, museum, oil/gas, engineering, airplane, e-commerce, etc)
. Type of session: Panel | Presentations | Break-out discussion | Tutorial | Other (please specify)
. Short description of the session
. The 2/3 person team (names & affiliations) that will lead the session
. Speakers(when applicable). It is strictly required to specify the speakers if you are proposing a panel, in which case they must be already confirmed.
. Expected participation (give a prediction of who would be interested in attending your session)
. Submit your proposal on easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=us2ts.

Symposium outcome
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After the Symposium we will invite all session chairs to co-edit a summary of the event, which will be formally published.

Important Dates
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. Deadline for submissions: October 31st  2018
. Notifications: November 16th 2018
. Confirmed outline of the sessions: December 10th 2018
. Final program for the sessions: January 14th 2019
. Symposium dates: March 11-13, 2019

Contact
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All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact-us2ts2019 at googlegroups.com<mailto:contact-us2ts2019 at googlegroups.com>


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U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series
March 11-13, 2019 at Duke University in Durham, NC
http://us2ts.org/2019/
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John Graybeal
Technical Program Manager
Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval /+/ NCBO BioPortal
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
650-736-1632


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