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Invited Speakers

SPEAKING INFORMALLY (provisional title)

Pat Hayes (IHMC, Univ West Florida)

THE MONTAGUES AND THE CAPULETS: PART II

Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK)

The School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

Email: carole@cs.man.ac.uk

Knowledge engineers (The Montagues) work on knowledge management techniques and technologies that should benefit the Life Scientist. Life Scientists (The Capulets) have practical, realistic problems and are a community of enthusiastic early adopters of knowledge technologies. Despite the obvious mutual benefit, these two communities often find themselves in conflict, mostly due to misunderstandings over motivations, poor self-awareness, and reluctance to compromise. In the opening plenary for the 2^nd Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (http://www.sofg.org/meetings/sofg2004/) I compared their rivalries and reconciliations to the conflict between the houses in Romeo and Juliet [1]. This hit a nerve with the audience of mainly Capulets. Throughout the meeting delegates identified themselves as Montagues or Capulets. I will conduct a repeat performance for an audience of mainly Montagues. Sweeping generalizations will be made throughout for the sake of effect.

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[1] Goble, C.A., and Wroe C.J., The Montagues and the Capulets, in Comparative and Functional Genomics December 2004, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 618-622(5)