Practical Ontology Construction
ADAMS ROOM

Instructor: Carsten Tautz, Manager Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge Management Division, Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group

Overview of Topic Maps
OLYMPIC ROOM

Instructors: Michel Biezunski, Consultant and Steven Newcomb, Consultant, Coolheads Consulting

Opening Keynote - VASHON ROOM

Once & Future Knowledge
Dr. Richard L. Ballard, Knowledge Foundations, Inc.

Fasten Your Taxonomies; Hold on for the Classification Revolution
Dr. Claude Vogel, Semio Corporation

• Knowledge Management Strategies to Improve Business Performance
  Chris Paladino, Accenture
• A 12 Step Guide to Calculating the ROI of Knowledge Sharing Solutions
  Hossein Mousavi, AskMe Corporation

• Managing Communities of Practice
  Greg Searle, Tomoye
• Building an XML Community of Practice
  Scott Tsao, The Boeing Company

Gold Track: Knowledge Topics for Newcomers - CASCADE 1C

• The Role of Ontologies & Taxonomies in Knowledge Technologies
  Carsten Tautz, empolis knowledge management GmbH
• Introduction to RDF
  Uche Ogbuji, Fourthought, Inc.

• Call Centers Powered by Knowledge Technologies
  Jasmin Franz, empolis GmbH
• Text Mining: Tools, Techniques, and Applications
  Nathan Treloar, AvaQuest

• Nexist: An Open Source Knowledge Toolkit
  Jack Park, ThinkAlong Software
• KM: Practical Application of Advanced Technology
  James Bair, Strategy Partners International

Gold Track: Knowledge Topics for Newcomers - CASCADE 1C

• Introduction to Topic Maps
  H. Holger Rath, empolis GmbH
• Introduction to Semantic Web
  Eric Miller, World Wide Web Consortium

• KM and Dehumanization: A Reason to Resist
  Donald Belles, The Boeing Company
• Effective Knowledge Organization Across All Media Types
  John-Henry Gross, Convera

• Document Ontologies in Library and Information Science
  Allyson Carlyle, Information School, University of Washington
• Strategies for Subject Navigation of Linked Web Sites using RDF Topic Maps
  Jean Godby, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

• The Reference Model for ISO 13250 Topic Maps
  Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb, Coolheads Consulting

• Knowledge Building Through Wireless: A Philippines Case Study
  Janette Toral, DigitalFilipino.com
  
• Speed to Knowledge
  Roger Mizumori, Mobile Management Forum
  

• Layered Information Modeling and a Knowledge Organization Paradigm
  Joseph Tennis, University of Washington, Information School (iSchool)
• Application and Evaluation of the Topic Map for Organizing Japanese Cultural Resource Data
  Mari Nagase, PhD, Shizuoka University and Motomu Naito, Incubate Inc.

• Building a Topic Maps Repository
  Xia Lin, Drexel University
  Jian Qin, Syracuse University
  
• Making Knowledge Management Work with XML, XLink, Topic Maps, and AI
  H. Holger Rath, empolis GmbH

• netOrganization 
  Angelo Canaletti BrainWorkers Ltd.
• A Common Ontology for Linguistic Concepts
  Scott O. Farrar University of Arizona

• Context Graphs, Concepts, Knowledge and the Semantic Web
  David Dodds, DDWyndham
• A Standard for Knowledge Verification Through Source Representation
  John Spragge, Dancing Cat Software

Gold Track: Tools and Services - ST. HELEN ROOM

• Smart Knowledge Management for Uncertain Times
  Sudheer Koneru, Click2learn

• Methods for the Automatic Construction of Topic Maps (double session)
  Eric Freese, ISOGEN International and Steve Pepper, Ontopia

• RDF Powers the Next-Generation Application
  Uche Ogbuji, Fourthought, Inc.

Gold Track:  Knowledge Technology Futures - ST. HELEN ROOM 

• Metaphorical Processing in Knowledge Technology and AI
  David Dodds, DDWyndham
• Metaphorical Interfaces
  Kurt Cagle, Cagle Communications

• Towards a Semantic Taxonomy
  Kurt Conrad, Sagebrush Group and Bo Newman, The Knowledge Management Forum
• Introduction to the Semantic Web
  Suellen Stringer-Hye, Vanderbilt University

• Where are the Sematics in the Semantic Web?
  Michael Uschold, The Boeing Company
• DAML and RDF Topic Maps
  Nikita Ogievetsky, Cogitech, Inc.

• The empolis Knowledge Suite - A Unique Combination of Unique Tools
  H. Holger Rath, empolis GmbH
• The Omnivore: Knowledge Interchange using Topic Maps in Arbitrary Syntaxes
  Sam Hunting, eTopicality, Inc.

Closing Keynote - CASCADE 1 A

Negotiation Instead of Legislation
John Sowa, Chief Scientist - Genumerix, Inc.