AgLRs in Budapest

Last week, IE members Alberto Abián, Elena Mena and Raquel Rebollo were attending to the Technical Course on Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgLRs) which took place at FAO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR) in Budapest.

The main task for the IE members in this course was to learn about spcecific architectures to interconnect Learning Repositories and to expain the technology behind the Organic.Edunet Web Portal.

Alberto, Raquel and Elena in cold Budapest - Nov.2009

 

Ontology workshop at FAO

After a very fast taxi course from the Fumicino airport to the center of Rome, IE members Alberto Abian and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso reached the FAO premises where they organized the a workshop about the Organic Ontology created for the Organic.Edunet project. It has been a very good opportunity to look closer at what we have been doing during the last 6 months and to improve the current Organic Agriculture and Agreoecology ontology with the help of a bunc of experts from the Organic.Edunet consortium and from FAO. An important part of the meeting was devoted to the presentation of the Moki tool, aimed at easing the collaborative creation and improvement of ontologies. This tool has been created as part of the Aposdle project, whose representative Marco Rospocher participated in the ontology workshop.

In the photo below, UAH members with other participants in the workshop posing in the Philippines room at the FAO building.

From left to right: Nikos Palavitsinis, Alberto Abian, Marco Rospocher and Salvador Sanchez

 

SSFW09

Last week, IE member Leonardo Lezcano attended the SSFW09 workshop, held in Milan, where he presented an approach titled “Integrating Disease And Diagnosis Semantics In Clinical Archetypes”. This workshop was a follow up to the first workshop on Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes held in Dallas in 2008. The aim of both meetings was to achieve a better understanding of the pathogenesis of human disease in order to develop effective diagnostic, therapeutic and prevention strategies. This Milan edition was organized by the DISCo Bioinformatics Group at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
The workshop audience was pleased to watch the presentation of Nicola Guarino, one of the key names in the ontologies domain, as well as the one of Barry Smith, perhaps the most vociferous advocate of the philosophical approach to the study of ontologies in informatics.

SSFW09 participants

From left to right: Leonardo Lezcano, Gianluca Colombo, Daniele Merico

 

Ontose 2009

Today IE members Daniel Rodriguez and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso are attending to Ontose 2009, the latest edition of a series of bianual workshops on ontologies for information systems and engineering. Ontose was conceived as a forum promoting challenging discussions and cross-fertilization over multidisciplinary research areas from the ontologies point of view.

This year’s edition has has been organized by the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Austria) as part of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems, CAISE 2009. We have been lucky enough as to count with the presence of Nicola Guarino, one of the key names in the field of ontology in computer science. His keynote on the ontological foundations of Service Science has been not only thought provoking but also very interesting from the point of view of the challenges that the new service-based economy will have to face in the near future. In the photo below these lines, Christian Kop from Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Nicola Guarino and IE member Salvador Sanchez-Alonso.

 

Open health Spain 2009

Yesterday and today the first Open Health Spain symposium on clinical interoperability issues is taking place in Alcala. Organized by the IE, ATOS Research and Innovation and the Fuenlabrada University Hospital, this symposium aims at gathering together researchers and practitioners in the field of Health interoperability in Spain.

Pablo Serrano (Fuenlabrada Univ. Hospital), Josema Cavanillas (ATOS R&I) and Miguel A. Sicilia (Univ. of Alcala) in the first session

 

AgroLT at AUA

Miguel-Angel Sicilia gave a keynote at the “Workshop on Learning Technology Standards for Agriculture and Rural Development” (AgroLT), 19th September in Athens. The event was part of the 4th International Conference on ICT in Bio and Earth Sciences (HAICTA 2008). In the same session, Alberto Abián and Ramiro Cano talked about the latest progress in the Organic.Edunet platform. The event took place at the Agricultural University of Athens.

Incidentally, it was also collocated with the KKE Greek Communist Festival, so the University walls were full of slogans… that remembered older times in Spain.