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    A reminder of this Thursday's session for Ontology Summit 2016: <br>
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    GeoScience and Semantic Interoperability<br>
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    Report on activities such as NSF’s EarthCube that feature different
    GeoScience domains working on semantic interoperability issues to
    promote understanding of the state of the art across different
    approaches and what challenges remain.<br>
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      onmouseout="mouseoverOff('vs_hid1A')">Session Co-Chairs: <b><a
          href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php/GaryBergCross"
          title="GaryBergCross"> Gary Berg-Cross</a> and <a
          href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php/KenBaclawski"
          title="KenBaclawski">Ken Baclawski</a></b> </div>
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    The speakers are: <br>
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      onmouseout="mouseoverOff('vs_hid1C2A')">- Brandon Whitehead
      (University of Auckland, Auckland) Broad and deep view of
      semantics in GeoScience together with a list of issues
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    - Ruth Duerr (BCube) Semantics and the discovery and use of data and
    data services<br>
    - Adila Krisnadhi (Wright State) Dealing with semantic heterogeneity
    in data integration using modular ontology patterns<br>
    - Matthew Mayernik (UCAR) Building Geoscience Semantic Applications
    Using Established Ontologies<br>
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    * Date: Thursday, 25-Feb-2016 <br>
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    * Start-time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST /
    1730 UTC <br>
    ** world clock:
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    ** Duration: ~1.5 hours <br>
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    All other details can be found at <br>
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    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_02_25">http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ConferenceCall_2016_02_25</a> <br>
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    - Donna Fritzsche and Michael Gruninger <br>
    Chairs, Ontology Summit 2016
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