Language Technology Data Category workshop 23-24 April, University of Sydney

[Linda Barwick]

Details below about an upcoming Language Technology Data category workshop, further details via the link below.

http://users.monash.edu.au/~smusgrav/ARGILaRe/Data_Categories.htm


Data category standards in language technology research infrastructure
Workshop sponsored by Australian National Data Service
hosted by the Australian Reference Group for Interoperability in Language Resources (users.monash.edu.au/~smusgrav/ARGILaRe/) 
and the University of Sydney Library

 
Dates: Tuesday 23 - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Venue: Fisher Library Seminar Room 218, level 2, Fisher
 
The purpose of the meeting is to share information between Australian and EU providers of language technology infrastructure around standards and some of the tools that are being developed to deal with and implement them. Our guest speaker is Menzo Windhouwer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, and Data Archiving Networked Services) http://www.mpi.nl/people/windhouwer-menzo
 
For further information contact Linda Barwick, PARADISEC, University of Sydney
linda.barwick at sydney.edu.au
 
PROGRAMME
Day 1 (23 April)
9:30 Welcomes - Anne Bell, University of Sydney Library; Andrew Treloar (ANDS); Linda Barwick (PARADISEC)
10:00 Introduction to Australian Reference Group for Interoperability in Languages Resources - Simon Musgrave
10.30 Australian participation in ISO - Standards Australia (TBC)
 
11:00 Morning Tea
 
11:30 Introduction to ISOcat (http://www.isocat.org/): Menzo Windhouwer, MPI/DANS
12:30 Discussion session 1
 
1:00 LUNCH (catered in situ)
 
Data categories in Australian research infrastructure
2:00 Ontologies and data categories in Human Communication Science vLAB - Steve Cassidy and others TBA (Macquarie/HCSvLAB)
2:30 Ontologies and data category standards in HuNI (Humanities Networked Infrastructure) vLAB - Conal Tuohy (VerSI) (TBC)
3:00 Discussion session 2
 
3:30 afternoon tea
 
Researcher perspectives
4:00 Describing linguistic data through data categories and ontologies: a comparison - Alexander Borkowski (School of Languages and Linguistics, Griffith University)
4:30 Discussion session 3
5:00 close
 
Symposium dinner (venue TBA)
 
 
Day 2 (24 April)
9:30-12:30 - Hands-on workshop - using ISOcat (led by Menzo Windhouwer)
 
12:30 - lunch
 
1:30-3:30
Research Data Alliance Working Groups/Interest Groups, next directions - Discussion led by Andrew Treloar (ANDS)
http://rd-alliance.org/working-groups/general-introduction/.
 

3:30 close