Semantic Academy | Intensive School 2023

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The LifeWatch ERIC Intensive School: Boost your research with semantic artifacts

In recent years, one of the major challenges in Environmental and Earth Sciences has been managing and searching larger volumes of data, collected across multiple disciplines. Many different standards, approaches, and tools have been developed to support the Data Lifecycle from Data Acquisition to Data Curation, Data Publishing, Data Processing and Data Use. In particular, modern semantic technologies provide a promising way to properly describe and interrelate different data sources in ways that reduce barriers to data discovery, integration, and exchange among biodiversity and ecosystem resources and researchers. This course is built as a five-day intensive school providing the knowledge on how to create semantic artifacts for a specific domain and use them to annotate and analyse data in a Virtual Research Environment.

Semantic Academy 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE! Interested persons are invited to apply by 30 July by filling in the sign-up form here

When and where

25 – 29 September 2023, Lecce, Italy

Target audience

The School is mainly aimed at IT architects, Research Infrastructure (RI) service developers and user support staff, and RI staff.

Learning objectives

  • Compare the most important approaches to
    Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering, presenting their main characteristics
  • Discuss the main steps of the design and
    development of ontologies and semantic artifacts repositories
  • Examine the most critical elements and
    tools for designing thesauri
  • Demonstrate how to annotate and query your
    data in a Virtual Research Environment
  • Create your Virtual Research Environment,
    using tools such as NaaVRE

Programme Overview

  • Day 1 – Welcome
  • Day 2 – Semantic Web and Ontology Engineering (Theory and Practice)
  • Day 3 – Design Thesauri and Annotate your data (Theory and Practice)
  • Day 4 – AI and Ontologies
  • Day 5 – Closing

Trainers

  • Nicola Fiore, LifeWatch ERIC
  • Armando Stellato, Tor Vergata University of Rome
  • Manuel Fiorelli, Tor Vergata University of Rome
  • Naouel Karam, InfAI, Leipzig University
  • Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam
  • Yifang Shi, University of Amsterdam
  • Gabriel Pelouze, LifeWatch ERIC
  • Clement Jonquet, INRAE (MISTEA), University of Montpellier (LIRMM)
  • Joaquín López Lérida, LifeWatch ERIC
  • Mark Musen, Stanford University (TBC)

Participation

EXTENDED DEADLINE – Interested persons are invited to apply by 30 July by filling in the sign-up form here.

Participation is free, but registration is compulsory. Three grants are made available by LifeWatch ERIC  to support applicants younger than 30 years. Successful candidates will be offered accommodation for the whole duration of the intensive school on the basis of their motivation letter and their curricula, while travel must be self-funded. LifeWatch ERIC is an equal opportunity organisation, and encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of race, gender, age, national origin, or sexual orientation. 

What to expect

You can find information about other Summer Schools on Data FAIRness previously organised by LifeWatch ERIC and the ENVRI Community on our Training & Education page.