4th Search&Find Workshop Program

August 22 2008, Ghent University, Belgium

Context

Search&Find is a group of Dutch and Belgian technologists who meet at regular intervals to discuss state of the art applications, frameworks and other technologies to be used in library applications. The members of this group include: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), Ghent University (UGent), Tilburg University (UVT) and Seek You Too (CQ2).

Program

The 4th Search&Find Workshop themed "Complex Objects, RDF and OAI-ORE" will be at Ghent University Library, Belgium on August 22nd. We have an interesting panel of speakers who can provide a variety of viewpoints on this subject. We welcome anyone with an interest in digital libraries and implementation of Semantic Web standards in library contexts to attend this meeting. If you plan to attend, please send an email to Patrick.Hochstenbach@UGent.be before August 15th so that we can accommodate for a sufficiently large meeting room.
Workshop Program
10:30-10:50Arrival
10:50-11:00Welcome - Introduction
11:00-13:00 Detailed introduction into RDF and the Semantic Web [Slides] Ivan Herman, W3C, the Netherlands
13:00-14:00Break
14:00-16:00 An introduction into the OAI-ORE interoperability framework [Slides] Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
16:00-17:00Group Discussion
17:00Drinks and informal discussion


Route

The meeting will be at:

Room 0.11 of the HIKO next to:
University Library Ghent;
Rozier 9 ;
9000 Gent ; Belgium
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For a route description please see here or here.