----------------------------------------- * Newsletter TMRA - April 2006 * TMRA 2006 - "Leveraging the Semantics" * Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006 ----------------------------------------- Dear friends and supporters of TMRA, In the course of Emnekart 2006 in Oslo on March 29th it became more than obvious that topic mapping has outgrown its infancy, at least in Scandinavia. More than 220 attendees from industry, government and science discussed solutions of business problems with the help of Topic Maps technologies. Attracting participants by offering solutions to their business problems requires two important prerequisites: advanced technology and interesting case studies. TMRA is where new challenges in Topic Mapping are identified and open issues tackled. TMRA is the place for exchange, bringing people together to work on the technology and to present studies of emerging cases. "Leveraging the Semantics" is the motto of TMRA 2006 and you will experience the power of semantics in Topic Mapping and their countless facets. TMRA enables you to keep up with cutting-edge developments and discover ideas today that will be presented at Emnekart in a few years. Greetings from Leipzig Lutz Maicher PROCEEDINGS of TMRA 2005 are out ================================ Since February the proceedings of TMRA 2005 have been available, published by Springer in the LNAI series (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Lutz Maicher and Jack Park edited the collection of all papers, carefully revised after the conference. You can purchase "Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape"(ISBN: 3540325271) in your bookstore. For TMRA 2006, the publication of the proceedings by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series is again foreseen. Call for Papers =============== In February the Call for Papers of TMRA 2006 was published. The motto of TMRA 2006 is "Leveraging the Semantics". We invite original, high quality papers with substantial contributions. This year an industrial and a scientific track are foreseen. The conference language is English. Five kinds of submissions are invited: - full papers to be published (only scientific track) - short papers to be published (only industrial track) - presentation proposals (only industrial track) - posters (scientific and industrial track) - demonstrations (scientific and industrial track). Submission deadline is June 2, 2006. Please carefully adhere to the submissions guidelines given at our website: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/sg.html The Call for Papers can be found at the following URL: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/cfp/TMRA2006_cfp.pdf Please send the Call for Papers to all your colleagues who might be interested in TMRA. Invite your colleagues to subscribe to the TMRA newsletter. If you have any questions about your submission's suitability for TMRA or you need further advice concerning your submission, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Commitee: Lutz.Maicher@tmra.de Call for Tutorials ================== The TMRA Organization Committee invites tutorial proposals for the 2006 TMRA Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications. TMRA 2006 will feature half-day introductory to advanced tutorial sessions. The tutorials will be given on Tuesday, October 10 prior to the TMRA scientific program. The purpose of the tutorials@TMRA program is to provide participants with lectures and instruction, on either well established or new cutting-edge topics, relevant to the topic mapping field. Please submit your tutorial proposal until June 2, 2006. The full Call for Tutorials can be found at the following URL: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/cft.html A PDF version for download can be found at the following URL: http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/2006/cft/TMRA2006_cft.pdf We invite you to send the Call for Tutorials to all your colleagues who might be interested in teaching at TMRA 2006. New and simple URL - http://www.tmra.de ======================================= The TMRA series has a new and simple URL. Type "tmra.de" in your browser and you will always have the latest information about TMRA. RSS Feed - Your news channel for TMRA ===================================== We provide a new channels for the latest news of TMRA. Add http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~tmra/tmra.rss to your RSS-Reader and you will always be up to date. Semantic Web School Media Partner ================================= To increase the visibility of TMRA, new media partnerships are signed. We are proud to present the first media partner, the Semantic Web School in Vienna (http://www.semantic-web.at). The Semantic Web School will offer information about TMRA on its website and in the monthly newsletters. If you can provide contacts to other media partners, please do not hesitate to contact us: Miriam.Suehnel@tmra.de Miriam Sühnel joins the Local Organization Team =============================================== We are proud to announce that Miriam Sühnel has joined our local organization team. If you have any organizational problems or questions please do not hesitate to contact her: Miriam.Suehnel@tmra.de SPONSORS ======== TMRA is sponsored by * paperdyne - http://www.paperdyne.com If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of TMRA, please contact Miriam.Suehnel@tmra.de for detailed information. The TMRA Team hopes to keep you informed with our monthly newsletters, again available in May. If you have any questions, ideas, etc. concerning TMRA, we look forward to your email: info@tmra.de