[expertfinder-dev] Re: ExpertFinder Lunch Meeting/Expertise Vocab

[Axel Polleres]

Dear all,

sorry for the delay due to constant travelling, please find below a
summary of the discussion we had on the ExpertFinder-Lunch at ESWC (last
Tuesday, noon) in Innsbruck:

Summary of ACTION ITEMS:

ACTION: Tom Heath to circulate a *simple* draft vocabulary for
expressing expertise, experience, and a few other relations.

ACTION: Soeren and the others from Leipzig promised to add to the Wiki
page an extensible list of sources/Webpages which we could think about
wrapping/annotating with this new vocabulary (ie citation indexes,
sourceforge database, FP7 experts list, etc.)

ACTION: Alexander/Uldis promised to ... (shame on me, I cannot read my
notes here properly anymore, it had something to do with "tools" ;-) )

ACTION: Axel to pick up/drive again the initial effort on creating
declarative mappings between overlapping vocabs
(http://www.rdfweb.org/topic/ExpertFinder_2fmappings)


Meeting details:

Attendees:

Chris Bizer | chris at bizer.de
David (surname not on the list) | david at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Soeren Auer | auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Andreas Blumauer | a.blumauer at semantic-web.at |
http://www.semantic-web.at/people/blumauer/card
Uldis Bojars | uldis.bojars at deri.org
Harold Boley | harold.boley at nrc.ca
Tom Heath | tom.heath at gmail.com (for maillists) / t.heath at open.ac.uk
(for personal/official email)
Jens Lehmann | lehmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Malgorzata Mochol | mochol at inf.fu-berlin.de
Asma Ounnas | ao05r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Adrian Paschke | paschke at in.tum.de
Alexandre Passant | alex at passant.org
Tassilo Pellegrini | t.pellegrini at semantic-web.at
Axel Polleres | axel at polleres.net
Raphael Volz | volz at fzi.de



Here my notes:

First, all told a bit on their background/interest in the topic.

Tassilo mentioned their SemNetMan (http://www.semnetman.net/) project
which is very related.

Andreas mentioned tagging, skills matching against DBPedia as an
interesting topic (http://dbpedia.org/docs/) Soeren supported this.

Soeeren and Jens told about their LDAP binding to open RDF data.
(poster presented at ESWC).

In a biref discussion of how/what can be done towards standardization,
the SWEO interest group was mentioned http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/
which overlaps in purpose partly with the goals of ExpertFinder.

Harold/Adrian mentioned their ruleresponder system: responder.ruleml.org
- a Web agent for collaborative Team Organizations which is based on
RuleML, RuleML could also be interesting for vocab mappings.

Asma mentioned her project on student group coordination (which she also
presented a poster on during ESWC's PhD Symposium)


We discussed the necessity for a simple vocab to annotate/describe
expertise as a simple extension of e.g. FOAF or SIOC.

Tom volunteered to share an initial vocab he uses already along these
lines... this might be the most important outcome of this meeting, if we
manage to create and spread such a mini-vocabulary a bit!

Some basic properties could be:

    interestedIn (domain foaf:Agent range ???:topic)
    hasExpertiseIn (domain foaf:Agent range ???:topic)
    providesExpertiseIn (domain foaf:Agent range ???:topic)

the difference bertween these three being:
interest doesn't imply expertise, having expertise doesn't imply that
you want to share/sell/provide this expertise. (I am not sure about the
last one, still, since it seems then somehow missing *how* this
expertise is provided...)

More interesting than just the simple properties might be *who* states
these properties, ie. it might be much more interesting if I say that
someone else is expert in XYZ than if I state that I have expertise
myself in XYZ.

issues like SPAM/privacy/trustworthyness arise from just such a simple
set of properties, but maybe this is just a good reason to start with
something VERY small.

We then discussed which sites might be a good starting point to
extract/wrap such expertise vocab from. citation indexes, sourceforge
database, FP7 experts list, LinkedIn, Xing, easychair were mentioned...
obvoulsy not all of them provide their data.
  Soeren volunteered to set up an initial list of possible candidate
sources to wrap there and set up a page on the expertfinder wiki.

I have two more action items that Alexandre and Uldis promised something
which I cannot read anymore, unfortunately ;-) (please complete this
missing part!), and that I promised to pick up the issue of publishing
vocab mappings again.


That was it, as far as I remember,
additions/follow-ups *very* welcome!

Axel



Bojars, Uldis wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> It was great to meet you all at the ExpertFinder lunch meeting during
> ESWC'2007.
> 
> As promised, please find attached a list of participants of the lunch
> meeting and their email addresses.
> If you are not on the mailing list yet, you are more than welcome to
> join at:
> http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/expertfinder-dev
> 
> CC: ExpertFinder-Dev list
> 
> Please correct me if there are any spelling mistakes.
> 
> Best,
> Uldis
> 
> [ http://captsolo.net/info/ | http://sioc-project.org/ ]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: expertfinder-dev-bounces at lists.foaf-project.org
> [mailto:expertfinder-dev-bounces at lists.foaf-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Tom Heath
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:45 PM
> To: expertfinder-dev at lists.foaf-project.org
> Subject: [expertfinder-dev] ExpertFinder Lunch Meeting/Expertise Vocab
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for an interesting meeting at lunch. I actioned myself to
> circulate my draft vocabulary for expressing expertise, experience, and
> a few other relations. I *will* deliver on my promise, but unfortunately
> due to time pressue I'll have to renege on my commitment to doing it
> this afternoon!
> 
> Apologies. More soon,
> 
> Tom.
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ExpertFinder Lunch Table - 2007-06-05:
> 
> David (surname not on the list) | david at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
> Soeren Auer | auer at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
> Andreas Blumauer | a.blumauer at semantic-web.at | http://www.semantic-web.at/people/blumauer/card
> Uldis Bojars | uldis.bojars at deri.org
> Harold Boley | harold.boley at nrc.ca
> Tom Heath | tom.heath at gmail.com (for maillists) / t.heath at open.ac.uk (for personal/official email)
> Jens Lehmann | lehmann at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
> Malgorzata Mochol | mochol at inf.fu-berlin.de
> Asma Ounnas | ao05r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> Adrian Paschke | paschke at in.tum.de
> Alexandre Passant | alex at passant.org
> Tassilo Pellegrini | t.pellegrini at semantic-web.at 
> Axel Polleres | axel at polleres.net
> 
> Raphael Volz | volz at fzi.de


-- 
Dr. Axel Polleres
email: axel at polleres.net  url: http://www.polleres.net/