----------------------------------------- * Newsletter TMRA - June 2007 * TMRA 2007 - "Scaling Topic Maps" * Leipzig, Germany, * * tutorials@TMRA - October 10, 2007 * TMRA 2007 - October 11-12, 2007 ----------------------------------------- Dear friends and supporters of TMRA, only nine days left for your submission to TMRA 2007. Take the opportunity to present your work to the community at TMRA 2007. All kinds of submissions are welcome: scientific or industrial. Decide whether you want to submit a paper, a presentation, a poster or a demonstration. The conference management system is ready for your submission! The deadline is 22 June 2007. If you have the idea to stage group meetings, panels or other events outside the normal conference schedule please contact us. If appropriate, we will arrange a slot or a room for you. Like last year TMRA 2007 will be proceeded by tutorials@TMRA, a full day of tutorials around Topic Mapping. Take the opportunity and teach a tutorial! Normally, a tutorial is half-day and you will have the opportunity to teach your technology or methodology to interested people. Moreover a tutorial might be a good place to acquire members for a user group around your Topic Mapping technology. Please help us to promote TMRA 2007 and recommend the conference to your colleagues or friends interested in Topic Mapping. Or post it at your blog. The website of TMRA 2007 is available at [1]. If you want to link directly to TMRA 2007, please use [2]. Greetings from Leipzig Lutz Maicher [1] http://www.tmra.de [2] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/ SUBMISSION ========== The call for contributions is available at [1]. The motto of TMRA 2007 is "Scaling Topic Maps". Due to numerous requests the deadline for all submissions to TMRA 2007 was extended. The new deadline is *22 June 2007*, Friday next week! Five different types of submissions are invited to the conference: Full papers, short papers, posters, presentation proposals, and demonstrations. Details about the submission are given at [2]. The conference management system is ready for your submission. The success of the conferences mainly depends on the input of the community. For this reason we cordially invite you to present *your work at TMRA 2007*. If you feel uncertain in respect to a possible submission, please do not hesitate to contact us via email. Please invite your colleagues to submit their Topic Mapping work at the conference. Or recommend the conference website to them. Or publish a link to the conference website in your blog. All your input will help to make TMRA 2007 to the exciting event for the Topic Maps community. [1] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/cfp.html [2] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/sg.html TUTORIALS ========= Teaching a tutorial at the conference will be a perfect place to introduce your technology or methodology to a skilled audience. A tutorial might be a good starting point for building a user group around the thaught technology. Please submit your tutorial proposal by using the conference management system due 22 June 2007. All details about tutorials@TMRA are given at [1]. [1] http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2007/cft.html PROCEEDINGS TMRA 2006 ===================== Springer has been published the proceedings of TMRA 2006 end of April. Within the proceedings you will find 23 articles presented last year at the conference. The full reference of the book is: Maicher, L.; Sigel, A.; Garshol, L.M.: Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps. Springer:Berlin (2007). ISBN: 978-3540719441 SPONSORS ========= To provide TMRA 2007 in a stimulation setting, the organization team depends on sponsorships. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of TMRA, please contact Lutz.Maicher@tmra.de for detailed information. TMRA 2007 is already supported by: -------------------------------------------- *** Topic Maps 2008 *** The International Topic Maps User Conference *** http://www.topicmaps.com/ -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- ** Media Foundation of the Sparkasse Leipzig ** http://www.leipziger-medienstiftung.de/ -------------------------------------------- The TMRA Team hopes to keep you informed with our newsletters. If you have any questions, ideas, etc. concerning TMRA, we are looking forward to your email: info@tmra.de _______________________________________________ Tmra-newsletter mailing list Tmra-newsletter@lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de http://lists.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/tmra-newsletter ====================================== TMRA - International Conferences on Topic Maps Research and Applications TMRA 2007 "Scaling Topic Maps" http://www.tmra.de ====================================== Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Inf. Lutz Maicher phone: +49-341-97/32 303 (backup: +49-341-97/32 358) fax: +49-341-97/32 299 email: tmra@informatik.uni-leipzig.de email: Lutz.Maicher@tmra.de TMRA - Organization (Lutz Maicher) c/o Zentrum für Informations-, Wissens- und Dienstleistungsmanagement e.V. University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 D-04103 Leipzig (Germany)