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Theme
I-6: Innovative Web Design and Applications – O. Signore (Italy)
and H. D. Flack (Switzerland)
Presentation abstracts
will appear here as soon as possible.
The web is defined
by its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, and should be perceived by the
users, as a universe of network-accessible information. The web,
at its full potential, can be seen first as a means of human-to-human
communication, and then as a space in which software agents can,
through access to an immense knowledge pool representing society,
science and its problems, become tools for us to work with. We
must assume that the goals of interoperability, and creating an
evolvable technology, are taken for granted and assumed throughout.
The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware
or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture,
geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core
values in web design. The "semantic web" is the challenge of the
next decade.
The session will focus
on how innovative applications can fit in this framework. It will
foster an exchange of ideas on all aspects of all disciplines
that will contribute to make the "semantic web" a reality.
The goals of the session are to ring together some of the most
active and well known researchers and developers in web design
and applications to discuss the following:
- Surveying what is
currently being done in designing applications that make use
of new and innovative web technologies
- Identifying future
research and development issues and trends in web application
design and discussing how advances in research and technology
can help to design and implement innovative applications that
can lead the web to its full potential
- Forging research
collaborations.
Submitted
abstracts include:
Multimedia Presentation
of Scientific Data in the WWW.
Horst Bogel and Robert Spiske, Germany
XML Technologies for
the Representation and Management of Spatiotemporal Information
in Archaeology
F. Grandi and F. Niccolucci,Italy
An Integrated Web
Resource for Crystallography
Brian McMahon, UK
Interoperability Approach
in Designing a Geo-Data Server for Antarctic Data
L. Fortunati, O. Salvetti, A. Galligani, S. Biagioni and C. Carlesi,
Italy
XML in the Documentation
Field: Designing "semantic web" Applications
Giuseppe Fresta, Paola Carrara, Italy
Towards Semantic Web:
User Needs and Available Technologies
Oreste Signore, Italy
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