Speaker
B. White
(SLAC)
Description
During a recent visit to SLAC, Tim Berners-Lee challenged the High
Energy Physics community to identify and implement HEP resources to
which Semantic Web technologies could be applied. This challenge
comes at a time when a number of other scientific disciplines (for
example, bioinformatics and chemistry) have taken a strong
initiative in making information resources compatible with Semantic
Web technologies and in the development of associated tools and
applications.
The CHEP conference series has a strong history of identifying and
encouraging adoption of new technologies. The most notable of these
technologies include the Web itself and Grid computing. The Semantic
Web could have a similar potential.
Topics of discussion in this BoF include (but are not limited to):
Definition of the Semantic Web; Semantic Web component technologies; Review of
current Semantic Web-related efforts in HEP; Semantic Web resources that are
publicly available; What needs to be done next.
Primary author
B. White
(SLAC)
