[seek-kr-sms] [Fwd: [Fwd: Ecoterm environmental terminology mtg]]

[Peter McCartney]

their website seems to inidicat a lot of activities that overlap with
our community, although its hard to tell how mature many of them are.
the immediate workshop topic is directly relevant and timely though. i
think someone should go. 

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:56 -0900, Matt Jones wrote:
> Forwarding again, got the seek-kr-sms address wrong last time.  Oops.
> 
> Matt
> 
> email message attachment ([Fwd: Ecoterm environmental terminology
> mtg])
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:56 -0900, Matt Jones wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> > This meeting seemed relevant to the KR and maybe SMS groups.  Gail 
> > Hodges used to be involved in the Ceres/NBII thesaurus project, and now 
> > appears to be in the EU.  I also hadn't seen this Ecoinformatics 
> > Initiative web site before.  Interesting.  Do you think we should send 
> > anyone over that has knowledge of our ontologies?
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
> > email message attachment (INVITATION: 2nd ECOTERM MEETING ON
> > ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL TERMINOLOGY)
> > On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:56 -0900, Matt Jones wrote:
> > > SOME OF YOU RECEIVED AN INVITATION TO A MORE LIMITED VERSION OF
> > > THIS MEETING LAST YEAR IN GENEVA BUT WEREN'T ABLE TO ATTEND.  WE
> > > HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN US THIS YEAR. NEW GROUP MEMBERS
> > > ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.
> > > 
> > > PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE TO OTHERS WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED.
> > > THIS IS BEING DISTRIBUTED TO SEVERAL LISTS.  APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE
> > > FOR DUPLICATION.
> > > 
> > > ANNOUNCING THE 2ND ECOTERM MEETING
> > > The German Federal Environment Agency
> > > (UBA- Umweltbundesamt)
> > > Offices 1, Berlin Grunewald 
> > > Bismarckplatz 1,
> > > Berlin, Germany
> > > 15 April 2005
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In April 2004 the Ecoterm Group was formed by parties interested
> > > in working together on environmental terminologies, their
> > > integration and their use with semantic web technologies. The
> > > Ecoterm Group is a working group of the Ecoinformatics Initiative
> > > (http://ecoinfo.eionet.eu.int/ ).
> > > 
> > > The second meeting of the Ecoterm Group will take place at the UBA
> > > in Berlin on 15 April 2005.
> > > 
> > > The agenda will include an update on the activities that resulted
> > > from the Ecoterm Meeting in Geneva in April 2004, updates on
> > > individual projects from the participants, and an update on
> > > progress in relevant standards and tool development.  A formal
> > > agenda is still being prepared. 
> > > 
> > > There is no registration cost. Meals will be on your own.
> > > 
> > > Please register at http://ecoterm.infointl.com
> > > Note that this registration form will not register you for the
> > > OpenForum. (See the OpenForum information below.)
> > > 
> > > You can find information about the location of UBA at:
> > > http://www.umweltdaten.de/down-e/anreise.pdf
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >From Crowne Plaza, the location for the OpenForum, you can reach
> > > UBA within 20 minutes with Bus X10. The following hotels are very
> > > close to UBA (within 10 minutes of walking distance) should you
> > > choose to be closer to the location for the Ecoterm Meeting:
> > > http://www.kronprinz-hotel.de/
> > > 
> > > and
> > > http://www.hotel-haus-bismarck.de/index.html
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The meeting will take place the day after the Open Forum on
> > > Metadata Registries, which will include a significant number of
> > > terminology related presentations.  We encourage you to come early
> > > and attend the Open Forum. The topic, "Semantic Interoperability:
> > > Where Meaning Meets Metadata" will be very relevant to our
> > > discussions on Friday.  Information about the Open Forum,
> > > including hotel reservations, can be found at
> > > http://www.berlinopenforum.de/.  Note that the OpenForum
> > > registration form will not register you for the Ecoterm Meeting.
> > > (See the registration information above.) We encourage you to come
> > > early and attend the OpenForum. 
> > > 
> > > We look forward to seeing you in Berlin.
> > > 
> > > Gail Hodge
> > > Ecoterm Meeting Organizer
> > > 
> > > Sr. Information Scientist
> > > Consultant to the US Geological Survey
> > > Information International Associates, Inc.
> > > 312 Walnut Place
> > > Havertown, Pennsylvania 19083 USA
> > > +1 865-742-5430 (cell)
> > > +1 865-481-0390 (fax)
> > > gailhodge at aol.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >