HCSNet Hands-on Workshop on Mashups - Site for Macquarie University Students

Details 27-28 July 2009, Macquarie University
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CALL FOR MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Mashups are all about presenting information from various sources in an integrated Web application. While early experiments with multimedia-multiweb application integration were done by savvy programmers who would effectively decode yet unpublished APIs of applications such as Google Maps, currently there is a wide range of software platforms for the development of mashups, and building a mashup is becoming increasingly easier by everyone. In this hands-on workshop, experts from leading mash-up development technologies will introduce their products and then groups will be formed to build mash-ups on the spot. Emphasis will be given to mashups related to HCSNet's Priority Areas but anybody from Macquarie University can attend.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

There will be presentations by the following people; for further details see the HCSNet workshop website:

  • Neil Wilkinson, Technical Director at Yahoo! 7
    • An intro to Yahoo!'s Open Strategy - focus on YQL (Yahoo! Query Language)
  • Pamela Fox, Developer Programs Engineer for the Google Maps API
    • Creating Maps Mashups: From Data to Map
  • James Hogan, from Queensland University of Technology
    • Making Mashups for Data Intensive Research

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will run over two days. The central component of the workshop will take place in PC labs with all the software required to build mashups, and with technical assistance. There will be extensive tutorials and presentations by experts in mashups, and the workshop will conclude with presentations of the mashups built over the two days.

AUDIENCE

The workshop will attract leading researchers and developers in language technology and human communication sciences but we are also targetting students at Macquarie University. The tutorials will be accessible to anyone with some programming experience, and there are no restrictions on the types of mashups to build at the workshop.

Students of COMP and ISYS units, Honours, Masters, and PhD students are especially encouraged to participate by submitting an expression of interest.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Submit a paragraph of 100-150 words in length indicating the reasons why you are interested in participating in this workshop and a topic on which you would like to develop a mashup, and a paragraph describing your background BY MONDAY 6 JULY. Please send the submissions by using the submission form on top of this page.

The reason why we want you to submit this information is to help us decide if there are more people than places available. We have extended the deadline to 6 July. If you want to be at the workshop, submit by the due date to avoid disappointment.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission of Expressions of Interest: 6 July 2009 (was 29 June) -- CLOSED
  • Notification of Acceptance: 13 July 2009
  • Registration Closes: 20 July 2009 -- CLOSED
  • Workshop: 27-28 July 2009

CONTACT

Diego Molla-Aliod Diego.Molla-Aliod@mq.edu.au