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In 2016, the TICAL community cycle of thematic meetings will begin with the presentation of the inter-institutional projects presented in TICAL2015. The first one, scheduled for March 17th, at 15h UTC, invites the entire academic community to meet and join the "Semantic Repository of Researchers" project. The activity will be held by video conference and registration is now open.

The institutions interested in participating in this first TICAL thematic meeting can sign up until the 15th of March. The event will focus on an ecuadorian pilot project in testing phase, the Semantic Repository of Researchers. The initiative is based on the automatic detection of similar areas of knowledge among researchers in Latin America through the use of approaches oriented to the integration of information by using Semantic Web technology.

Today, each IHE (Institution of Higher Education) maintains a repository with data from their researchers and, in some cases, with publications. When it is necessary to propose projects with several researchers in a specific area belonging to different IHEs, the question is: Who works in similar lines of research? Moreover, when the researchers belong to different IHEs in the region, the question is how to create a network of researchers in the same area when you do not know if they exist or, if they do, their location is not known.

To expand the scope of this knowledge base throughout Latin America will enable higher education systems in our region to rely on a repository. This project is intended to encourage interagency collaboration and thus obtain a validated semantic repository with a tool for locating researchers in similar areas that will provide updated information about them, their published articles, magazines where they were accepted, among others. Thus, potentiate the generation of research networks with academic peers in the region, expanding their possibilities and offering to the participating institutions greater opportunities for cooperation and collaboration.

Agenda: Thursday, March 17th, 2016

15:00 GMT | Welcome and connection settings
Marcela Larenas, RedCLARA, Chile
15:10 GMT | Semantic repository of Latin American Researchers
Víctor Saquicela, PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Professor at the University of Cuenca.
15:40 GMT | The interest of Ecuadorian national network, RedCEDIA, in this initiative.
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Executive Director of the Ecuadorian Consortium for Advanced Internet Development (CEDIA)
16:10 GMT | At what stage is the initiative? Who can be part of it? What should I do to participate? among other questions, will be reviewed in this block.
Víctor Saquicela, PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Professor at the University of Cuenca.
16:30 GMT | Round of questions and comments from participants

Important dates

Last day to complete the registration form: Tuesday, 03.15.2016, until 18h UTC
Test equipment, single and mandatory: Wednesday 16/03/2016, between 16h and 18h UTC (only those who have completed all required fields on the registration form may participate)
TICAL Thematic Meeting: Thursday, 17.03.2016, between 15h and 17h30 UTC (only the rooms that performed the equipment test may attend the event)

For more information and registration, visit: https://eventos.redclara.net/indico/event/646/overview