Past Events

The 2011 AGU Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 20,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. KEOD aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and development of methodologies and technologies for Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.

This call is soliciting submissions of work-in-progress reports for the afternoon session. We are especially interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:

1. Identification systems and standards for scientific metadata
2. Scientific metadata architecture and models in Semantic Web
3. Interoperable taxonomies and vocabularies in [biology, astronomy, etc.]
4. Metadata linking mechanisms and technologies and their applications in scientific metadata
5. Organizational and technical challenges in linking scientific metadata

Tentative agenda: http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1109tcagenda

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FOSS4G is the global and annual conference hosted by OSGeo in venues all around the globe. It attracts the best Open Source geospatial software projects and their developers making it the gathering of the tribes. FOSS4G addresses the needs of users and developers alike and this year intends to also bridge the gap between the suits and the geeks by explaining how the business models can be used to address the needs of small and large organizations alike.

Check website below for more information on the developing proposal for FOSS4G 2011.

Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating humongous volumes of information from diverse sources to enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one of the most significant challenges of current times. Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and applications.

The European Geophysical Union General Session will be held April 3 to 8, 2011.

Stefano Nativi sends out the following Dear colleague mail.

Dear colleague,

I am writing to invite you to submit an abstract to the forthcoming Earth and Space Sciences Informatics (ESSI) sessions of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, 03-08 April 2011. Please, see http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/sessionprogramme/ESSI

Authors are invited to submit abstracts by Monday 10 January 2011.

In February of 2011, scientists from around the world will converge on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico to discuss emerging science on Limnología y Oceanografía en un Mundo en Cambio, Limnology and Oceanography in a Changing World. We are entering a new epoch, where anthropogenic impacts on climate are affecting our world in a myriad of yet to be understood ways. Islands, such as Puerto Rico, are particularly vulnerable due to rising sea level, increasing human populations, and stress on freshwater supplies.

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The AGU Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 16,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.