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Semantic Networked Desktop event Collaborative Trip Report

Last night at dinner after the http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ workshop, a group of us (Peter Mika http://www.cs.vu.nl/~pmika/, Stefan Decker http://www.isi.edu/~stefan/, Leo Sauermann http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/, Eyal Oren http://sw.deri.ie/~eyal/, Jean, Isabel Cruz http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/, Heiko Haller http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/Personen/viewPerson?id_db=2115, Thoerston Kruger from Siemens - and I http://labs.elsevier.com/resources/adw/changingdoc/adw.htm) thought it was time to invent a new type of conference proceedings. What we call conference proceedings are really PREceedings - recording what was in the head of the speakers by the time of the deadline for papers, but not saying anything about what actaully happened at the event. We want to change all that, and present a collaborative, semantic trip report. A lot of discussion ensued. "We need a WIKI!" "No, we don't need a WIKI!" "Please stop this technical bullshit - I want to talk about my feelings!" We realised that if we just eat our dogfood and use all or some of the tools described in the workshop, we could start to really communicate in this way. Science is what scientists do. If this is how we exchange ideas - then this is how we can change the document-centric way of doing things into a new! improved! semantically linked, desktop enabled, collaborative THING. Welcome.

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We should let people know of this -- so someone should email the workshop participants. Alternatively, maybe we could have it announced at the conference?

In fact - today (8/11/05) the next step was taken - we decided on the ABCDE Format - Author, Background, Contribution, Discussion, Entities - a semantic structure conference proceedings. The page is here http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/ABCDEF: take a look and join us, the ABCDEFG! (ABCDE Format Group)