October 18 th, 2004
First annual scientific
conference of the LORNET Research Network
I2LOR-04-04 « Towards the Educational Semantic Web »
Montreal, October 18th, 2004 - The LORNET Research
Network (Learning Objects Repositories Network), steered by Dr
Gilbert Paquette, of the Télé-université,
announces the holding of its first annual scientific conference
which will take place on November 18th and 19th, 2004 at the
Université du Québec in Montreal.
This conference called I2LOR-04 « Towards
the Educational Semantic Web » will gather,
under the same roof, the Leaders of the LORNET Research Network,
its researchers and collaborators, its industrial partners
as well as scientific partners outside Canada. This conference
is opened to anyone interested in the education and the management
of the knowledge by means of the technologies of the Internet
and the evolution of these towards the Semantic Web.
The Conference will provide, to all the participants,
an occasion to share the concrete results as well as the orientations
concerning the 6 themes under investigation by each of the universities
which compose the network: Theme 1, [Simon Fraser University]
- Interoperability of Learning Objects Repositories and Ontology
Referencing; Theme 2, [Télé-université]
- Learning Design and Multi-actor Scenario Support; Theme 3,
[University of Saskatchewan] - Active and Adaptive Learning Objects;
Theme 4, [University of Waterloo] - Learning Objects Data Mining
and Knowledge Extraction; Theme 5, [University of Ottawa] - Creation,
search and distribution of advanced multimedia learning objects
(TELOS); Theme 6, [Télé-université and the École
polytechnique de Montréal] - TeleLearning Operation System
-TELOS.
The afternoon of Friday will be dedicated to
a joint Symposium on Semantic Web, in cooperation with the Canadian
Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) of the Canadian Society for
the Computational Studies of Intelligence ( SCEIO / CSCSI).
For more information, or to join on-line, one
can visit the site of the conference at the following address: http://www.lornet.org/i2lor/index_en.htm
LORNET is a research network subsidized by the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
It groups together over one hundred of researchers, research
associates and graduate students. In terms of financing and resources,
LORNET benefits from the support of industrial partners who joined
the network to ensure a technological transfer of the results
of the research in their organization.
LORNET aims at concrete deliverables for society,
universities, as well as public and private organizations: tools,
methods, systems, technology watch, benchmarking, technical reports,
scientific publications and support to around 40 graduate students
each year.
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Supplementary information:
Karima ElKechai, Administrative assistant
(514) 840-2747 ext.m2310 elkechai@licef.teluq.uquebec.ca |
