Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe?

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1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

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Who's cloning who?

Who's cloning who? 03/29/2005 02:16 PM
Clonus (AKA Parts: the Clonus Horror) was released on DVD today. This ultracheap 1979 sci-fi thriller is about a compound where clones are raised, unaware that their purpose in life is to provide harvested organs (more detail here). MST3K sent it up, the Onion sneers at it, but this NY Times review (reg. reqd., scroll down) is respectful. You can rent it now, or you can wait until July for the megabudget, Michael Bay-directed version of the same damn story.

U.N. Shelves Cloning Ban

U.N. Shelves Cloning Ban 11/07/2003 08:51 AM
CBS News Nov 7 2003 7:32AM ET

U.N. Balks at Cloning Ban

U.N. Balks at Cloning Ban 12/10/2003 05:45 AM
The United Nations postpones a decision on cloning for a year instead of banning the procedure outright. Stem-cell researchers, who believe the science will lead to medical treatments, hope the year will be fruitful. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S. 02/13/2004 05:53 AM
Korean researchers leapfrogged American scientists Thursday when they announced they had derived the first embryonic stem cells from a human clone. So why wasn't the U.S. first? Kristen Philipkoski reports from Seattle.

Cloning Fluffy

Cloning Fluffy 01/04/2005 01:12 PM
Is the pet cloning industry fertile ground for finding Rule Breakers?

Cloning Window Groups

Cloning Window Groups 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S.
Help

Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S.
Help 02/15/2004 01:12 AM
If American researchers lose their technical lead in the cloning race, Washington will also forfeit the chance to set the ethical rules of the game.

Scientists given cloning go-ahead

Scientists given cloning go-ahead 08/11/2004 08:18 AM
The first request by British scientists to clone human embryos has been granted by experts.

Britons attack US cloning ban bid

Britons attack US cloning ban bid 08/29/2004 06:05 PM
Britain's Royal Society is backing a campaign to stop the US securing a world ban on all forms of human cloning.

Cloning embryos: Your Views

Cloning embryos: Your Views 02/12/2004 10:00 AM
South Korean scientists have cloned 30 human embryos to obtain cells they hope could one day be used to treat disease. Tell us what you think about embryo cloning.

Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood

Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood 12/30/2004 06:38 AM

U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning

U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning 12/12/2003 05:36 AM
Slashdot Dec 12 2003 5:00AM ET

The Truth Behind Fear and Cloning

The Truth Behind Fear and Cloning 02/12/2004 06:16 AM
Some people are enraged by the prospect of human cloning. Some are grossed out. Some see it as their only hope to one day get well. Biotech author Brian Alexander sets us straight. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Should embryo cloning be allowed?

Should embryo cloning be allowed? 06/16/2004 05:22 AM
Scientists are asking for permission to clone a human embryo for the first time in the UK. Should this be allowed?

Cloning Creates Human Embryos

Cloning Creates Human Embryos 02/12/2004 10:10 AM
Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

Korean Cloning Rekindles Debate

Korean Cloning Rekindles Debate 02/13/2004 09:20 AM
CBS News Feb 13 2004 1:22PM GMT

Debate Over Cloning in U.S. Remains
Intense

Debate Over Cloning in U.S. Remains
Intense 02/12/2004 01:21 AM
Human cloning and stem cell medicine have long been the subject of intense political and religious debate in the United States.

Human embryo cloning OKed in UK

Human embryo cloning OKed in UK 08/11/2004 08:13 AM
Rich sez, "British scientists have been granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research, it was announced today."

They plan to duplicate early-stage embryos and extract stem cells from them which can be used for radical new treatments.

The embryos are destroyed before they are 14-days old and never allowed to develop beyond a cluster of cells the size of a pinhead.

The green-light was given by the research licensing body the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority after weeks of discussion.

Dr Miodrag Stojkovic, from the university’s Institute of Human Genetics, said: “We are all set up and ready to go immediately as soon as the paper work is sorted out.

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Expert fights horse cloning ban

Expert fights horse cloning ban 05/05/2004 02:31 AM
Britain's leading scientific expert in horse breeding is to appeal against a government ban on cloning.

Therapeutic Cloning Prompts Call for Ban
(AP)

Therapeutic Cloning Prompts Call for Ban
(AP) 02/12/2004 08:48 PM
AP - In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo — and the extraction of stem cells from it — has ignited new calls for a ban on all forms of human cloning in the United States.

Scientists Claim Cloning Success

Scientists Claim Cloning Success 02/12/2004 01:18 AM
Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

International Cloning Project Due Next
Month

International Cloning Project Due Next
Month 03/29/2005 09:03 AM
Hankooki Mar 29 2005 1:17PM GMT

Human cloning license issued in UK

Human cloning license issued in UK 08/12/2004 07:35 AM

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning

U.N. delays treaty on human cloning 11/07/2003 09:59 AM
globetechnology.com Nov 7 2003 9:19AM ET

Specter of Cloning May Prove a Mirage

Specter of Cloning May Prove a Mirage 02/16/2004 07:53 PM
Is a normal human blastocyst, a microscopic bubble of proto-life that forms about five days after sperm meets egg, the same as a cloned blastocyst?

Bullish Hopes for Serial Cloning

Bullish Hopes for Serial Cloning 05/24/2004 04:50 AM
A famous bull made history in 2000 when researchers announced they created six clones of him. Now they've done it again by cloning one of those clones -- they call it serial cloning. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Human Cloning: The State of the Science

Human Cloning: The State of the Science 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week Feb 17 2004 10:18AM GMT

Mac Gems: Super disk cloning

Mac Gems: Super disk cloning 06/22/2005 02:33 AM
SuperDuper! is the easiest way to “clone” your hard drive—and then some.

The clone is out of the bottle; what's
next? A cloning timeline

The clone is out of the bottle; what's
next? A cloning timeline 02/14/2004 06:34 PM
US News Feb 14 2004 11:16PM GMT

U.N. Puts Cloning Talks On Hold

U.N. Puts Cloning Talks On Hold 12/09/2003 03:44 PM
CBS News Dec 9 2003 2:16PM ET

Apathy hobbles equine cloning

Apathy hobbles equine cloning 07/30/2004 07:14 PM
globetechnology.com Jul 30 2004 10:30PM GMT

Dolly scientist backs baby cloning

Dolly scientist backs baby cloning 02/18/2004 05:33 PM
The man who led the team which created Dolly the sheep backs human cloning "under certain circumstances".

Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning
(AP)

Japan Science Council OKs Human Cloning
(AP) 07/24/2004 04:56 AM
AP - The government's top science council has voted to adopt policy recommendations that would permit limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research in Japan, an official said.

Movie Web site stirs cloning controversy

Movie Web site stirs cloning controversy 04/26/2004 07:04 PM
CNET Apr 26 2004 11:20PM GMT

Scientists Create Human Embryos Through
Cloning

Scientists Create Human Embryos Through
Cloning 02/11/2004 11:06 PM
Scientists in South Korea report that they have created human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

FDA considers ethical concerns of animal
cloning

FDA considers ethical concerns of animal
cloning 11/01/2003 03:02 AM
USA Today Nov 1 2003 2:31AM ET

Cloning experiment shows cancer
reversible

Cloning experiment shows cancer
reversible 08/04/2004 01:25 AM
Content.sina.com - Mon Aug 2, 08:38 pm GMT

Copy cats here after cloning
breakthrough (Reuters)

Copy cats here after cloning
breakthrough (Reuters) 08/05/2004 09:00 AM
Reuters - Two cloned kittens have been born using a new cloning method that may be safer and more efficient than traditional methods, according to a U.S. company.
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