9:00
am - 10:30 am: Green Track - Topics for Managers
KM
and Dehumanization: A Reason to Resist
Presented by: Donald A. Belles, Senior Software Process Analyst/Architect,
The Boeing Company
As KM becomes more dynamic, we teeter on the brink of a new definition
of "being human". Knowledge Management dehumanizes employees.
Understanding how and why this happens leads to effective strategies
and lowered implementation costs. Unfortunately, the only people
capable of addressing this issue are the very ones who must resist
its implementation. Learn more in this session.
Effective
Knowledge Organization Across All Media Types
Presented by: John-Henry Gross, Product Marketing Manager,
Convera
This presentation will highlight that an increasing percentage
of an organization's knowledge assets are created and stored in
complex media formats. As a result, the information infrastructure
that supports knowledge portals must now be capable of handling
text, images, video and other multimedia file formats.
9:00
am - 10:30 am: Blue Track - Knowledge Organization Strategies
Document
Ontologies in Library and Information Science: An Introduction
and Critical Analysis
Presented by: Allyson Carlyle, Assistant Professor, Information
School, University of Washington
Two
document ontologies will be presented and analyzed, the first
having to do with the temporal nature of documents, and the second
with the intellectual nature of documents. Implications of these
ontologies for knowledge technologies will be explored.
Strategies for Subject Navigation of Linked
Web Sites Using RDF Topic Maps
Presented by: Carol Jean Godby, Senior Research Scientist,
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
This presentation explores the possibility of using subject metadata
encoded in RDF to alleviate the problems of navigating complex
Web sites.
9:00
am - 9:45 am: Gold Track - Late Breaking News (single
session)
The
Reference Model for ISO 13250 Topic Maps
Presented by: Michel Biezunski, Consultant and Steven Newcomb,
Consultant, Coolheads Consulting
This
presentation will illustrate the work in progress of the proposed
Reference Model for ISO 13250 Topic Maps - to the Topic Maps ISO
standard working group. Considerable progress has been made since
the last time this material has been publicly presented (Extreme
2001). The Reference Model makes the conceptual underpinnings
of the common understanding of Topic Maps (Topics, Names, Occurrences,
Associations, ...) explicit.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Green Track - Wireless
Knowledge
Knowledge Building Through Wireless: A Philippines
Case Study
Presented by: Janette C. Toral, Editor, DigitalFilipino.com
The Philippines is a third world country, but considered
as the text messaging capital of the world. This session intends
to showcase how wireless technologies and messaging are changing
the way people communicate and interact. How enterprises are utilizing
this trend to to build knowledge about their clients better and
the application development challenges it presents.
Speed to Knowledge
Presented by: Roger K. Mizumori, Chair, Mobile Management Forum
By focusing on the business rationale for Knowledge Management and
on tools available today, this presentation addresses the opportunities
for leveraging Tacit Knowledge to Create Knowledge.
11:00
am - 12:30 pm: Blue Track - KO Technical Topics
Layered
Information Modeling and a Knowledge Organization Paradigm: Inherent
Classification and the Design of Interoperable Systems
Presented by: Joseph T. Tennis, Ph.D. Student, University of
Washington, Information School (iSchool)
In a June 2000 article, Parsons and Wand separate classes from
instances in information modeling in order to free instances from
what they call the "tyranny" of classes. They attribute
a number of problems in information modeling to inherent classification
- or the disregard for the fact that instances can be conceptualized
independent of any class assignment. By faceting instances from
classes, Parsons and Wand strike a sonorous chord with classification
theory as understood in Library and Information Science (LIS).
In the practice community and in the publications of LIS, faceted
classification has shifted the paradigm of knowledge organization
theory in the twentieth century. Here, with the proposal of inherent
classification and the resulting layered information modeling,
a clear line joins both the LIS classification theory community
and the information modeling community. Both communities have
their eyes turned toward networked resource discovery, and with
this conceptual conjunction a new paradigmatic conversation can
take place. This presentation will examine the common ground between
inherent classification and faceted classification, establishing
a vocabulary and outlining some common principles. It then will
turn to the issue of schema and the horizons of conventional of
subject access. Finally, a framework is proposed that deploys
an interpretation of the layered information modeling approach
in a knowledge technologies context. In order to design subject
access systems that will integrate, evolve and interoperate in
a networked environment, knowledge organization specialists must
consider a semantic class independence like Parsons and Wand propose
for information modeling.
Application
and Evaluation of the Topic Map for the Japanese Cultural Resource
Data---Experiment for the Graphic Database of the Tale of Genji
Presented by: Mari Nagase, Professor, Shizuoka University and
Motomu Naito, Director of Synergy, Incubate Inc.
The
purpose of this presentation is to discuss and investigate whether
the Topic Map would be effective for the use of large scale data
compiled in various archives, museums and libraries. Japan has
been late behind in developing machine-readable texts and museum
data in humanities compared to the West, which has started in
early 70's. Thus, for the last decade, we have made our efforts
to produce large-scale data, corpus and archives. On the other
hand, our government has recently announced that the optical fiber
cables will be furnished all over Japan by 2005 and asked universities
to provide contents, especially for the educational use. Though
we have so far developed various academic databases, we have not
paid much attention to the software, neglecting user's side. We
are now in need of good and effective methods and tools for the
use of large data. Collaborating with the Synergy Incubate Inc.,
I have just started the joint project for the research of the
Topic Map to reply this request. We have a big expectation that
the method of Topic Map would solve this problem and contribute
to cultivate various cultural data and produce new knowledge out
of them. Accordingly, our research is not directly targeting commercial
world rather than academics and educational use. But if the method
would be proved effective for the knowledge creation from large
literary and museum data, which would bring us big business chances.
11:00
am - 12:30 pm: Gold Track - K
M Implementation Strategies
Building
a Topic Maps Repository
Presented by: Xia Lin, Professor, Drexel University
and Jian Qin, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
This
presentation will discuss a topic maps repository for creating
topic maps without having to know the syntaxes of topic maps and
XML.
Making
Knowledge Management Work with XML, XLink, Topic Maps, and AI
Presented by: H. Holger Rath, Director Research & Development,
empolis GmbH
Enterprise knowledge management deals with knowledge about products,
processes, people. This session will present KM methodologies,
discuss uses of XML, XLink, Topic Maps in KM, introduce practical
AI approaches, and describe a general system architecture.
2:00
pm - 3:30 pm: Green Track - Topics in KO
& KR
netOrganization
Presented by: Angelo A. Canaletti, Engineer, BrainWorkers Ltd.
This presentation converned with the possibility that now is given
by technological tools to create a cyber space in which the workers
are knowledge workers, and that is in fact a social space.
A
Common Ontology for Linguistic Concepts
Scott O. Farrar, Reseach Assistant, University of Arizona
As part of a project called Electronic Metastructure for Endangered
Languages Data (EMELD), this presentation will discuss how we
have developed an ontology of concepts that encompasses a wide
range of linguistic phenomena. The idea was initially conceived
to facilitate both the knowledge sharing of annotated linguistic
data and the searching of disparate language corpora. Such an
ontology, however, is needed outside of the EMELD project for
enhancing performance of the semantic web, for developing expert
systems capable of linguistic analysis, and for providing a theory-neutral
backbone in the processing of scientific documents pertaining
to the linguistics domain.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Blue
Track - Knowledge Representation
Context
Graphs, Concepts, Knowledge and the Semantic Web
Presented by: David Dodds, Senior Software Engineer, DDWyndham
During this presentation computer programs will be shown and discussed
which explain what context graphs are and how they work. Context
graphs representation uses situated generation and provides for
inference and contextualization that is consistent with the experimental
literatures on human memory and anticipation, and work done at
Computing Science UC Berkeley.
A
Standard for Knowledge Verification Through Source Representation
Presented by: John G Spragge, President, Dancing Cat Software
This presentation aims to outline methods of connecting statements
made in computer communications with the sources of information
which underlie those assertions. This process has three objectives:
>To distinguish between statements supported by the available
information, and statements not so supported. >To permit participants
in a discussion to determine the level of verification they will
require to take note of a statement.>To link the veracity of
a statement with the likelihood that others will see and believe
that statement.
2:00
pm - 3:30 pm: Gold Track - Tools and Services
Electronic
Publishing: weLEAD in Learning
Presented by: Howard Baker, Assistant Professor CIS, University
of Louisiana Monroe
weLEAD in Learning is a new section of weLEAD magazine (www.leadingtoday.org)
to be launched this spring. The presenter of this session has
recently been named Editor of this new section in January, 2002.
This session will describe the new weLEAD in Learning section
which will address learning organizations of all kinds. The web
site will focus on both theory and practice connected with all
five learning disciplines identified by Peter Senge. It will integrate
this with the thinking of Greenleaf, Covey, and many others. It
is envisioned that the weLEAD in Learning section will pioneer
in the use of hypertext and electronic document technology to
facilitate learning about learning using a systems thinking model
of What, How, and Why.
Smart Knowledge Management for Uncertain Times
Presented by: Sudheer Koneru, Executive Vice President of Products
and Strategy, Click2learn
Organizations have been suddenly forced to take a close look
at the business problems that can arise during times of crisis
and uncertainty. Reevaluating knowledge management systems and
establishing sound practices for protecting intellectual capital
have become a top priority for businesses looking to safeguard
against unforeseen circumstances. In this presentation, Mr. Koneru
will explore the challenges that uncertain times can impose on
a business enterprise and its employees, and what organizations
can do to specifically protect intellectual assets and accumulated
organizational knowledge.
4:00
pm - 5:30 pm: Green Track - Topic Maps for Implementers
Methods
for the Automatic Construction of Topic Maps
Presented by: Eric Freese, Senior Consultant, ISOGEN International
and Steve Pepper, CEO, Ontopia
A topic map can be regarded as an indexing layer that provides
unified access to information resources emanating from multiple,
disparate sources. Because of its emphasis on capturing semantics,
topic mapping is more akin to "intellectual indexing" (a term
which covers back-of-book indexes, thesauri, and glossaries) than
to the "mechanical indexing" typical of full-text indexes. This
accounts for topic maps' superiority in terms of increased precision
and recall, but raises the question of whether the effort required
to create and maintain topic maps may be prohibitive.
This
double session seeks to address that question and to demonstrate
how the creation and maintenance of topic maps can be partially
or even, in many cases, wholly automated. The first part of the
presentation will describe the tasks involved in creating topic
maps and then enumerate various sources of topic map data, including
pre-existing ontologies, document metadata, structured and unstructured
document content, and information systems. Following this, a number
of data extraction techniques will be described and rules of thumb
provided for when best to use each one. Finally, practical demonstrations
will be given of an open source application employing Natural
Language Processing and a toolkit that exploits the synergies
between topic maps and RDF to generate topic maps from semi-structured
data.
4:00
pm - 4:45 pm: Blue Track - RDF (single session)
RDF Powers the Next-Generation Application
Presented by: Uche Ogbuji, CEO/Principal Consultant, Fourthought,
Inc.
RDF is primarily a format for managing Web-based metadata, but
because of its simplicity and flexibility, it can just as well
be used as a general-purpose metadata management system for applications.
In fact, stretching customary definitions of metadata a bit, it
can be used for any management of discrete, semi-structured data,
including the sort of material that is typically maintained in
database indices: names and labels, prices, quantities, etc. Actually,
while avidly following the development of the Semantic Web, and
offering assistence where possible, the consultants of Fourthought,
Inc. have put RDF to heavy use in just such modest projects as
outlined above. They have delivered several real-world Web applications
for clients using RDF as a unified metadata system. These applications
involve Web-based forms, XML databases, Web services, business-rule
management, flexible search and decision support. In this presentation,
Uche Ogbuji illustrates specific problems to which RDF has been
applied in the Fourthought practice, particular techniques that
have been developed to best effect in solving these problems,
and the various pitfalls encountered, along with lessons to be
learned from these. It will revolve around code samples which
illustrate important patterns for the effective use of RDF in
general-purpose applications.
4:00
pm - 5:30 pm: Knowledge Technology Futures
Metaphorical
Processing in Knowledge Technology and AI
David Dodds, DDWyndham
Metaphorical
Interfaces
Presented by: Kurt Cagle, Cagle Communications
Knowledge
management involves more than just the effective management of
resources, it also requires a vehicle for the effective display
of that information, a vehicle that can easily and quickly adapt
to different forms depending upon the type of information being
worked with. Declarative XML interface languages such as XHTML,
XForms, SVG, and XSL-FO are designed to work well with the XML
underpinnings of modern knowledge management, and provide the
flexibility, ease of use, and sophistication required to generate
such interfaces in real time. In this session, the implementation
and use of dynamic interfaces is explored in depth. Participants
will be able to see how the various "X" technologies can work
together, how they can be tied into the emerging Web Services
paradigm and why they offer superior capabilities compared to
more rigid GUI languages such as Visual Basic or Java Swing.
5:30
pm - 7:00 pm: IDEAlliance Sponsored Reception