Towards the Vision of Subject-Centric Computing

(The program is now completed)

Wednesday April 2    (show details)

09:00–12:00

Haakon Salen
Understanding Topic Maps

Steve Pepper (Ontopedia)

Maud Salen
Introduction to Ontology Design

Kevin Trainor (Ligent)

Lille Festsal
Topic Map Design Patterns

Kal Ahmed (Networked Planet)

Mauriske Sal
Open Source Topic Map Portals

Arnar Lundesgaard (Bouvet)

Hjørnestuen
Application Development with Ruby Topic Maps

Benjamin Bock (Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig)

Mauriske Salong
Querying Topic Maps with TMQL

Robert Barta (Austrian Research Centers)

13:00–16:00

Haakon Salen
Creating Topic Maps

Steve Pepper (Ontopedia)

Maud Salen
Practical Ontology Design

Kevin Trainor (Ligent)

Lille Festsal
Topic Maps in Library Science

Sam Gyun Oh (Sungkyunkwan University)

Mauriske Sal
Topic Maps for Information Architects

Alexander Johannesen (Bekk Consulting)

Hjørnestuen
Ruby Topic Maps in Action

Dmitry Bogachev (Ontopedia)

Mauriske Salong
Constraining Topic Maps with TMCL

Graham Moore (Networked Planet)

Thursday April 3    (show details)

09:00–10:30

Opening plenary
Bristol Hall

09:00 Welcome to Topic Maps 2008
Hans Christian Holte (DIFI)

09:10 Hierarchies, Networks, and the Web that Wasn't
Alex Wright (New York Times)

10:00 Topic Maps-driven Websites are Different
Lars Helgeland (Bouvet)

10:30–11:00

Coffee and exhibition

11:00–12:30

Information Integration
Haakon Salen

11:00 Information Integration, Topic Maps and the Struggle for Peace
Joachim Carlsen (Networked Planet), Agnete Schjønsby (PRIO)

11:30 Subject-Centric Content Syndication with Topic Maps
Karl Johan Sæth (Logica)

12:00 Connecting Content and Business Concepts
Axel Borge (Bouvet), Graham Moore (Networked Planet)

Education and e-Learning
Maud Salen

11:00 Topic Mapping the National Curriculum
Eirik Befring (NRK), Reidar Bratsberg (Ravn), Are Mjølsnes (UDIR), Åsmund Mæhle (Bouvet), Tommy Nordeng (Cerpus), Kristin Schjødt-Osmo (Cappelen Damm), Øystein Sørborg (Naturfag.no)

12:30–14:00

Lunch and exhibition

14:00–15:30

Product Documentation
Haakon Salen

14:00 Improving NetCom’s Customer Service with Topic Maps
Rune Rysstad (Avenir)

14:30 Enterprise Knowledge Integration Using Topic Maps
Heimo Hänninen (Nokia Siemens Networks)

15:00 DITA and Topic Maps: Bringing the Pieces Together
Joe Gelb (Suite Solutions)

E-Government
Maud Salen

14:00 Semantic Interoperability: The State of the Nation (Norway)
Robert Keil (Creuna), Marit Lofnes Mellingen (DIFI), Petter Thorsrud (Norwegian Government Administration Services)

15:00 Semantic Interoperability: The State of the Union (Europe)
Marco Aarts (ICTU), Peter Brown (Pensive)

15:30–16:00

Coffee and exhibition

16:00–17:30

Knowledge Management
Haakon Salen

16:00 Establishing Conclusive Proof in Forensic Data Analysis
Gabriel Hopmans (Morpheus)

16:30 Adding Value to a Quality Management System for Securities
Peter Crook (Steria)

17:00 Knowledge Management and Workforce Rehabilitation
Jelte Verhoeff (Arbo Unie)

Digital Libraries
Maud Salen

16:00 MARC, FRBR and RDA: The Topic Maps Perspective
Sam Gyun Oh (Sungkyunkwan University)

16:30 Topic Maps for Cultural Heritage Collections
Conal Tuohy (Victoria University of Wellington)

17:00 Visions for a Topic Mapped Library
Alexander Johannesen (Bekk Consulting)

17:30–19:30

Exhibition continues

19:30–23:00

Social event (Månefisken)

Friday April 4    (show details)

09:00–10:30

Opening Keynote
Bristol Hall

09:00 Everything is Miscellaneous
David Weinberger (Evident)

10:00 The RAMline – Rewriting Musical History
Antony Pitts (Royal Academy of Music)

10:30–11:00

Coffee and exhibition

11:00–12:30

Enterprise Architecture
Haakon Salen

11:00 Fluid ICT Strategies Enabled with Topic Maps
Roger Dols (Morpheus)

11:30 Published Subjects: Small Pieces, Meaningfully Joined
Stian Danenbarger (Bouvet)

12:00 Enterprise Search, Faceted Navigation and Subject-Centric Portals
Dmitry Bogachev (Ontopedia)

Cultural Heritage
Maud Salen

11:00 Musica migrans - Mapping the Movement of Migrant Musicians
Lutz Maicher (Topic Maps Lab, University of Leipzig)

11:30 Unrequited Love and the Ontology of Duckburg
Birte Fallet (University College Oslo), Kjersti Haukaas (University College Oslo), Asbjørn Risan (University College Oslo)

12:00 An Information Architecture for Frank Lloyd Wright
Kevin Trainor (Ligent)

12:30–14:00

Lunch and exhibition

14:00–16:30

Closing plenary
Bristol Hall

14:00 Explaining the Complexity of Life with Topic Maps
Volker Stümpflen (Research Center for Environmental Health)

14:30 Everything is a Subject
Steve Pepper (Ontopedia)

15:30 Visions of Subject-Centric Computing
Truls Berg, Dmitry Bogachev, Stian Danenbarger, Graham Moore, Steve Pepper, Shahzad Rana, David Weinberger, Alex Wright