TMRA 2009: Fifth International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications

Program for TMRA 2009

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Index of all contributions to TMRA 2009 is published here.
Index of the people contributing to TMRA 2009 is published here.

Tuesday 10 November 2009 – ISO Meeting (part 1)

The meeting of ISO/IEC SC 34/WG3 – the official ISO meeting for the Topic Maps standardization in conjunction with TMRA 2009 – takes place today and on Saturday 14 November 2009. If you like to attend / visit the meeting please contact Lars Marius Garshol or the TMRA organization team.
Start: 9.00 a.m.
Room: PC-Pool

Wednesday 11 November 2009 – tutorials day of TMRA 2009

	Room Schiller 2	Room Everth	Room Peterhans
morning 09:00 – 12:30	Ontopia Code, part 1 Camp by: Lars Marius Garshol, Geir Ove Grønmo	Hands on TMQL by: Sven Krosse	Semantic Mashups with Wandora by: Aki Kivela
afternoon 13:30 – 17:00	Ontopia Code Camp, part 2 by: Lars Marius Garshol, Geir Ove Grønmo	Hands on TMCL with Onotoa by: Hannes Niederhausen	Start: 14.00 h Improving Microsoft Sharepoint with Topic Maps by: Graham Moore, Axel Borge

Ontopia Code Camp

This full day event around the Ontopia Open Scource project is powered by Bouvet and the Topic Maps Lab. The registration to the Code Camp is free. Get all information about the Ontopia Code Camp here.

TMRA 2009 Warm up beer

There is a table reserved for the traditional TMRA warm up beer at 7 p.m.. The location is Kleine Träumerei which is located at Münzgasse 7, 04109 Leipzig. In the bar you get drinks and food. Please be aware that the TMRA warm up beer is not included in the conference fees.

Thursday 12 November 2009 – 1st conference day of TMRA 2009

All events in the left column of the program take place in the room Schiller 2.
All events in th right column of the program take place in the room Everth+Peterhans.

09.00	Welcome Note by Lutz Maicher
09:15	Sponsors Presentation Session
09:30	Opening Keynote Linked Topic Maps by: Michael Sperberg-McQueen
10:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Ontology Modelling 1 Chair: Geir Ove Grønmo	Applications Chair: Markus Ueberall
11:15	Creating Topic Maps Ontologies for Space Experiments by: David Damen, Rani Pinchuk, Bernard Fontaine	National Data Standardization: A Place for Topic Maps? by: Lars Johnsen
11:45	Onotoa – a Visual Topic Map Schema Editor by: Hannes Niederhausen	Construction of Authority Information for Personal Names Focused on the Former Japanese Nobility Using Topic Map by: Norio Togiya, Motomu Naito
12:00	Temporal Qualification in Topic Maps by: Christoph Teichmann, Lutz Maicher	idSpace: Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation by: Quintin Siebers
12:15		Development of a Trans-Field Learning System Based on Multidimensional Topic Maps by: Shu Matsuura
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
	Query and Update Chair: Robert Cerny	Information Logistics Chair: Gerhard Weber
13:30	Automated Focus Extraction for Question Answering over Topic Maps by: Rani Pinchuk, Tiphaine Dalmas, Alexander Mikhailian	Integrating SAP and SharePoint using Semantic Technology by: Graham Moore, Axel Borge
13:45		Building and Integrating Competitive Intelligence Reports Using the Topic Map Technology by: Tomas Kliegr, Jan Nemrava, Vojtech Svatek, Martin Ralbovsky, Jiri Splichal, Jan Rauch, Tomas Vejlupek, Vojtech Rocek
14:00	Towards Semantic Search with Topic Maps by: Lars Marius Garshol
14:15	TMSPARQL by: Graham Moore, Khalil Ahmed	Topic Maps for Association Rule Mining by: Tomas Kliegr, Jan Zemánek
14:30	Tolog Updates by: Lars Marius Garshol	topicmapslab.de – a Topic Maps community portal by: Lutz Maicher
15:00	COFFEE BREAK
	Authoring and Navigation Chair: Benjamin Bock
15:30	Shape not found for NilClass:
15:45	Bumblehood – a Topic Maps Based WYSIWYG Wiki for Travel Guides and Yellow Pages by: Matko Botincan, Claudiu Dobre, Boro Milivojevic, Sasa Saric
16:00	H-Maps: An Efficient Approach for Graphical Visualization and Navigation of Topic Maps and Data Representation in Computational Biology by: Markus Leber, Thilo Klöpfer, Steffen Hüttner
16:30	REFRESHMENT
16:45	Open Space Session
17:45	End of the first conference day
20:00	SOCIAL EVENT

TMRA 2009 Social Event

The social event starts at 8.00 p.m. The location is the restaurant Pilot which is located at Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig. At the social event you get drinks and food. The TMRA social event is included in the conference fees.

Friday 13 November 2009 – 2nd conference day of TMRA 2009

	Linked Topic Maps Chair: Lutz Maicher	Ontology Modelling 2 Chair: Reidar Bratsberg
09:00	Subj3ct – A Subject Identity Resolution Service by: Graham Moore, Khalil Ahmed	Topic Maps for Philological Analysis by: Fernando Sancho Caparrini, Miriam Pena Pimentel, Juan-Luis Suarez
09:30	Multidimensional Topic Maps – A brief introduction to the theoretical foundation of the Topic Grid by: Thomas Schwotzer	Modeling Names by: Xuân Baldauf
09:45	Topic Maps Web Service: Case Examples and General Structure by: Motomu Naito
10:00	Semantic Integration of Relational Data Sources With Topic Maps by: Thomas Neidhart, Rani Pinchuk	How to Model Names in Topic Maps? – Pitfalls and Guidelines by: Hendrik Thomas, Tobias Redmann, Bernd Markscheffel
10:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Infrastructure Chair: Rani Pinchuk	Poster session Chair: Steve Newcomb
11:00	JRuby Topic Maps by: Lutz Maicher, Benjamin Bock, Arnim Bleier, Uta Schulze	TMQL4J – javabased TMQL engine by: Sven Krosse Towards Topic Map-based e-Learning Environments by: Matthias Neubauer, Christian Stary, Stefan Oppl CouchDB and Topic Maps by: Hans-Henning Koch Implementing TMQL for Teaching: The straightforward approach with emphasis on understandability and modularity by: Sven Krosse, Benjamin Bock
11:30	Isidor-UI: Generating a User Interface with Topic Maps Constraint Language and JavaScript Object Notation by: Christoph Ludwig, Marc Wilhelm Küster, Lukas Gießmann
12:00	Networked Planet Web3 Platform by: Graham Moore, Khalil Ahmed
12:30	LUNCH BREAK
13:30	Open Space Session
	Best Topic Maps Contest
14:30	Maiana – a social Topic Maps browser by: Lutz Maicher, Marcel Hoyer, Michael Prilop
14:45	presentation of the best topic maps
15:00	COFFEE BREAK
15:30	Closing Keynote TMRA 2009 sum-up by: Steve Newcomb
16:15	Some impressions from the Ontopia code camp by Geir Ove Grønmo and Lars Marius Garshol
16:25	Closing note by Lutz Maicher
16:30	End of the conference

Saturday 14 November 2009 – ISO Meeting (part 2)

The meeting of ISO/IEC SC 34/WG3 – the official ISO meeting for the Topic Maps standardization in conjunction with TMRA 2009 – takes place today and on Tuesday 10 November 2009. If you like to attend / visit the meeting please contact Lars Marius Garshol or the TMRA organization team.
Start: 9.00 a.m.
Room: PC-Pool