[VoCamp Discuss] first take on Vocamp Glasgow

[Paola Di Maio]

I would say upload wherever convenient, and link to the wiki
if you want to send me the links, I ll post them to the wiki
cheers
P

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Pan, Dr Jeff Z. <jeff.z.pan at abdn.ac.uk>wrote:

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> Hi Paola,
>
> Thanks again for organising the helpful event. Could you advise where to
> upload the slides?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: swig-scotland at googlegroups.com
> > [mailto:swig-scotland at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paola Di Maio
> > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:46 AM
> > To: discuss at lists.vocamp.org; swig-scotland at googlegroups.com
> > Subject: first take on Vocamp Glasgow
> >
> > a quick take before I catch a train
> > P
> >
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> >
> >       Vocamp Glasgow 14-15 was a first to be held in
> > Scotland, also probably also the first to be co-faciliatated
> > by a 'girl' - not that gender matters.
> >
> >        We had a great bunch of people lined up to attend, and although
> >       a few defaulted (apologies received from Mounia, Harry,
> > Andrew, Maciej), it was still an impressive turnout, especially
> >       considering that people travelled from various parts of
> > the country to attend, and Serge came all the way from
> >       Brussells!
> >
> >       it was the first Vocamp for everybody, except for
> > Keith, who is a vocamp veteran having attended most of them
> > in the UK so far. I attended the one in Ibiza earlier this
> > year, but have  experience in facilitating unconference like
> > events, and participatory  learning workshops etc
> >
> >       We went through a quick round of intros, then decided
> > quickly to subvert the order of the in principle agenda, (see
> > the wiki Vocamp page for more details and links to materials)
> >
> >       Norman and Stuart showed the tools they are working on,
> > Jeff and Ed shared their tutorials and demos, then one by one
> > everybody had the chance to share their perspective, put up
> > some slides, say a few words.
> >
> >       Jenny showed her work in the direction of
> > socio-tecnical web, web of people, and was pointed to the
> > 'pragmatic web'  research group
> >
> >       Peter works for the UK Government and is very well
> > clued in, knows a lot of SW tools and techniques, and is
> > trying to promote the Semantic Community of Practice, check
> > out the links on the wiki. He says he would like this
> > community to be a vehicle for more knowledge dissemination,
> > please link your how to's questions and answers there if you have any
> >
> >       Gordon comes from a strong metadata background, and
> > works intensively in the librarianship community
> >       A mong other things  is doing some cool work on
> > Vocabulary Framework Initiative,  and he has promised to keep some
> >       tickets aside especially for vocampers and semwebbers
> > to the next meeting to be held at the British Library. Gordon
> > faces a huge vocabulary mapping task, they are looking at RDF
> > and ontologies as a way out. Their perspective is really
> > valuable and important as whatever solution they find to
> > crack their problem, is going to be largely applicable to any
> > other sector.
> >
> >
> >
> >       Martin is working on  assistive technologies and
> > interfaces for people who have trouble communicating - , and
> > recently meshed up an API for lastfm, he is thinking of how
> > to use vocabularies and possibly RDF to advance the
> > capabilities of his code
> >
> >       Serge shared his vision of location context aware
> > semantic services with everyone, a vision where the web can
> > help users locate not just information but also physical
> > things in the real world (wouldnt it be nice). He talked
> > about the role of location based services in relation to SW
> >
> >
> >       The next day a smaller group gathered around a table,
> > dealing with issues as they came up
> >       Peter mentioned an interest in developing a Pattern
> > Language, and was pointed to the ontology pattern wiki
> > organised by Eva, Aldo, Valentina of which some of us already
> > heard of.
> >
> >
> >        Norm and Stuart put up more stuff, and more
> > importantly,John Kerneay  a new friend and newcomer to the SW
> > had the chance of presenting his problem (his company is
> > making a transition to enterprise architecture) and he was
> > amazed to find out how much new stuff there is to learn
> > about. All remaining participants sat around him as he
> > presented his slides and had the chance to perform live
> > surgery, we all threw a tuppence at his problem space and I
> > think he left feeling that there is a communty of people not
> > far from him that he can go back to to develop his
> > understanding of sw stuff
> >
> >
> >       I finally had the chance to confront my domain range
> > ghosts, just to find out that despite me attending a few
> > rdf/owl workshops before, nobody had told me what i have
> > discovered today: there are two kind of  triples ( subject
> > predicate object )
> >
> >       class:relation:class  but also
> >       class:attribute:value  (is this right?)
> >
> >       I showed the diagram we are working on at EIIF xg, and
> > got valuable feedback, as well as an idea of the work ahead
> > and the problems that we may come across and address in the future
> >
> >       It was good to see people who have been around
> > relatively a long time to meet face to face for the first
> > time, it was great to meet government techies who know a lot
> > about the SW (are there more? where do they hide?), great to
> > have people come from other information and industry domains,
> > students, programmers, gathering around a table to share the
> > semantic web dog food.
> >
> >       Okay we did not produce any new vocabulary, but we
> > chewed a lot of vocabulary talk, and tried to do so in
> > relation to the bigger picture, the real world perspective.
> >
> >       And we left with the intent of meeting up again, and
> > again, maybe even simply at the wifi cafe down the road
> >       to hack a vocabulary anytime is needed, and follow up
> > with more targeted Vocamps, maybe we can have another one in
> > Edinburgh too at some point not too far away.
> >
> >
> >       Thanks a lot everybody, especially those who travelled
> > from outside town, and to the sponsors : University of
> > Strathclyde Information Directorate for giving us space (uhm,
> > the wifi access did not work as expected, but most of us
> > managed to get online
> >       eventually) and Talis for providing needed nourishment
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Some photos  (I was recently burgled and all my equipment is
> > gone, could not take any photos myself)
> >
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/55579041@N00/sets/721576223939860
> > 54/with/3927721793
> >
> >
> > Til next
> >
> >
> >
> >       Vocampers Glasgow
> >
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> > >
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