Our OWLED 2008 EU Plans
by Kendall Clark
OWLED is a community event, to be sure; but we’ve always felt a special kinship with it, since Bijan Parsia was one of the founders and all that happened while many of us were at UMD’s Mindlab. In some sense, it’s our “home conference” — which is a bit weird for a startup, granted, but our biz model is commercializing early-stage research, so that suggests having at least a few toes of one foot firmly in academia.
We’ve sponsored OWLED corporately over the past few years, and I helped organized (with Peter Patel-Schneider) the previous OWLED this past April in Washington, DC.
That said, OWLED 2008 EU is in Karlsruhe, Germany, colocated with ISWC 2008, and that’s a long and expensive (thanks to the dollar’s weakness in the EuroZone) trip. But we’ve got a lot planned for OWLED, so while we’re not yet sure who will be there representing C&P, someone will be. We’re busy now writing papers about:
- Pellint, our ontology lint tool for Pellet
- extending OWL2 with Integrity Constraint semantics
- ontology change management server (think SVN for OWL)
- Owlgres, our OWL2 RL (i.e., DL-Lite) reasoner
- extending OWL2 with quantitative units for equational reasoning
I don’t know how many of these will be accepted, but we’ll post PDFs for all them once they’re submitted.