Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:19:32 +0530 (IST)
From: DRTC General
DRTC Workshop on
SEMANTIC WEB
8th - 10th December, 2003
Organised by
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)
Indian Statistical Institute
Bangalore 560059
http://drtc.isibang.ac.in
Semantic web, as the name suggests, is an attempt to make the chaotic
World Wide Web (WWW) meaningful. Robots of web search engines can not
collect information about the content of documents from the web pages
(HTML pages), as a HTML tags provide no semantic clues about the content
of the document. This leads to noise in indexing. One solution is
providing meaning to web content by adding metadata. Semantic web is
based on Resource Description Frame work (RDF) using eXtensible Markup
Language (XML) for syntax and Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) as a
naming
convention.. DRTC announces a 3 day workshop focusing on the various
standards and Request For Comments (RFC) to enable library and information
professionals in creating semantic web. The workshop will emphasize on
comprehensive theory and practice.
Themes:
* Semantic Web: Overview
* Metadata
* Automatic Extraction of Metadata Using a Context Thesaurus
* Mobile Access to the Semantic Web
* Metadata for Learning Objects on the Web
* Retrieval in Indian Languages
* RDF
* XML
* Web Ontology and Taxonomy
* OWL (Web Ontology Language)
* Naming Conventions URI, URN, etc
Resource Persons: Experts from Dalhousie University, Canada and
University of Hyderabad, DRTC faculty.
As we plan an intensive training, we are limiting the number of
participants
to 25, selected on first-cum-first basis
I.K. Ravichandra Rao
Head, DRTC
