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http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2010

SMWCon Fall 2010 is the 5th International Semantic MediaWiki Conference. It will be held on the weekend of September 18-19, 2010 at the Open Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The conference provides an informal and engaging environment for discussing cutting-edge and emerging Semantic MediaWiki tools, extensions and applications.

General Information

SMWCon brings together developers, users, and organizations from the Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) community around the world. As with the previous SMWCons, SMWCon Fall 2010 will include presentations and discussions about current applications and the future development of Semantic MediaWiki and its extensions and applications. Participants are invited to present their own work and to discuss experiences and ideas. While the conference will have scheduled presentations, each will encourage free discussion and a rapid exchange of ideas. Registration for participation and proposals for contributions can be entered on the conference wiki homepage (see below).

Organizing Committee

Lloyd Rutledge, Open Universiteit Henk Scholten, BI-Team Michael Cariaso, KeyGene Daniel Hansch, Ontoprise GmbH Yaron Koren, WikiWorks Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford Denny Vrandečić, KIT Jesse Wang, Vulcan Inc.

Venue and Accommodation

The Open Universiteit Amsterdam Study Center is very close to public transport, the highway and Schiphol, Amsterdam’s international airport. The Study Center has wireless and non-stop free coffee. A variety of hotels are available in the neighborhood of the venue. For more information, see the conference wiki homepage, or send an email to Lloyd.Rutledge@ou.nl

NETTAB 2010 on "Biological Wikis"
November 29 – December 1, 2010, Naples, Italy
http://www.nettab.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
See below for Topics, Contributions sought, Deadlines, Instructions and Committees.
RATIONALE
It is now clear that wiki systems offer a variety of advantages for the management of biological data and information.
Some of the specific aims of wikis for biology (bio-wikis) include:
   * Collaborative development and sharing of knowledge
   * Collaborative annotation of database contents
   * Collaborative creation of database contents
The collaborative development and sharing of documentation and knowledge allows communities to promote, exploit, discuss and reach consensus on procedures, data, experiences, news, and other varied information. Indeed valuable expertise and interests in special topics are usually distributed, and are rarely concentrated in a unique site or research group.
The collaborative annotation of biological databases is increasingly under consideration because extended and accurate curation of an ever increasing volume of data is extremely costly and time consuming. Such distributed networks can help to improve and extend databases curation beyond that which is possible with, typically, limited numbers of curation staff. It allows users to contribute their expertise and observations  independently of database central organizations. Although the contents of the database are collaboratively annotated, the underlying databases themselves are left unchanged.
Furthermore, collaborative creation of community databases can capture emerging structure in rapidly developing fields. These database-wikis are indexes of biologically relevant data that emerge from focused and rapidly developing communities. They form a stopgap between unstructured discussion in fora and on mailing lists and the ‘mature’ databases that emerge subsequently. Hence they can be useful for discerning trends and promoting best practices, as well as  collect unique and timely information.
In the future, collaborative ‘wiki’ updates of almost all database contents can be envisaged. However several important issues need to be addressed:
   * How reliable are user contributions?
   * What format should annotations take?
   * How is this information feed back into ‘authoritative’ databases?
Procedures should be implemented to support assessment of users’ contributions, extraction of structured data from annotations, uptake of original data into reference databases. The authoritativeness of contributions is essential: how can quality be assessed? How do we deal with contributions from casual end users, since these are usually not considered adequate when compared with professional annotation at service centers. Can the open edition model of many wiki systems, e.g. Wikipedia, be as successful in life sciences?  Alternatively, should the usual criteria for assessing quality of research be applied, including peer-evaluation of contributions and identification of users? Crediting users for their contributions (e.g. authorship assignment) may be necessary to stimulate  the broadest possible participation.  Which further benefits may be imagined to acknowledge user investment (subscriptions to services, journals, …)?
Special features may be required to cater for the specificity of biological data: textual information is only a small part of biological data, how can the numerous and heterogeneous biological data types be catered for, e.g.  images, plots, diagrams? An adaptation of current wiki systems is needed. A survey of existing systems as well as current development efforts will be useful, so that possible synergies can be identified and supported, as well as ensure a coherent set of interoperable biological wikis.
TOPICS
The following list is not meant to be exclusive of any further topics as stated above.
Submitted contributions should address one or more of the following topics:
   * Wiki development tools
         o Wikimedia
         o Wikimedia extensions
         o Semantic Wikis
         o Wiki-coupled CMSs
         o Other wikis
   * Arising issues for the biomedical domain:
         o Authoritativeness of contributions and sites
         o Quality assessment
         o Users acknowledgement
         o Stimulatation of quality contributions
         o Authorships management and reward
         o ‘Scientific production’ value for contributions
         o Management of bioinformatics data types
   * Wikis and collaborative systems for:
         o Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics
         o Proteins analysis and visualization
         o gene and proteins interactions
         o metabolic pathways
         o oncology research
   * Issues to be tackled by wiki and collaborative research for:
         o Genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, any -omics
         o Proteins analysis and visualization
         o gene and proteins interactions
         o metabolic pathways
         o oncology research
TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS
The following possible contributions are sought:
   * Oral communications
   * Posters
   * Software demos
All accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.
DEADLINES
*  September 24, 2010: Oral communications submission
         o Decisions announced: October 24, 2010
* October 17, 2010: Posters submission
         o Decisions announced: October 24, 2010
* October 29, 2010: Early registration ends
* November 29 – December 1, 2010: Workshop and Tutorials
INSTRUCTIONS
Kindly follow the instructions carefully when preparing your contribution and submit your contribution through the EasyChair system athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nettab2010.
All contributions should follow the same format, as specified here:
font type: Times New Roman, font size: 12 pti, page size: A4, left and right margins: 2.0 cm, upper margin: 2.5 cm, lower margin: 2.0 cm.
The lenght of contributions for oral communications should be between 3 and 5 pages, including tables and figures.
They should include: Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion, References.
All contributions for oral communications will be evaluated by at least three referees.
The length of contributions for posters should be no more then 3 pages, including tables and figures.
They should include: Introduction, Methods, Results, References.
All posters will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance fot the workshop’s topics only.
For any further information or clarification, please contact the organization by email at info@nettab.org.
ORGANIZATION
Co-chairs
   * Angelo Facchiano, CNR-ISA, Avellino, Italy
   * Paolo Romano, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy
Scientific Committee
   * Claudia Angelini, IAC, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
   * Roland Barriot, Université Paul Sabatier – CNRS, Toulouse, France
   * Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
   * Dan Bolser, University of Dundee, Scotland, United kingdom
   * Philip E. Bourne, University of California, San Diego UCSD, La Jolla, USA
   * Mike Carasio, Keygene N.V., Wageningen, The Netherlands
   * Maria Luisa Chiusano, University of Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy
   * Italia De Feis, IAC, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
   * Angelo Facchiano, ISA, National Research Council, Avellino, Italy
   * Carl Herrmann, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
   * Pascal Hingamp, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
   * Eran Hodis, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
   * Robert Hoehndorf, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
   * Robert Hoffmann, Computational Biology Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
   * Thomas Kelder, BiGCaT Bioinformatics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
   * Alexander Pico, The Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, USA
   * Jaime Prilusky, Bioinformatics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
   * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Italy
   * Andrew Su, Bioinformatics, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Diego, USA
   * Joel Sussman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
   * Tim Vickers, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
   * Wyeth Wasserman, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
   * and further members yet to be confirmed
Organizing Committee
   * Claudia Angelini, IAC, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
   * Maria Luisa Chiusano, University of Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy
   * Italia De Feis, IAC, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
   * Angelo Facchiano, ISA, National Research Council, Avellino, Italy
   * Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics, National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy
Supporting Institutes, Scientific Societies and Projects
This list is still under definition.
  * National Research Council (CNR), Italy
  * National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Genoa, Italy
  * Italian Network for Oncology Bioinformatics (RNBIO)
Sponsors
Sponsorships are still under definition. You are welcome to email us for further information if you are interested in sponsoring this workshop.
We look forward to meeting you in Naples!
Paolo Romano and Angelo Facchiano
on behalf of the Scientific Committee
Paolo Romano (paolo.romano@istge.it)
Bioinformatics
National Cancer Research Institute (IST)
Largo Rosanna Benzi, 10, I-16132, Genova, Italy
Tel: +39-010-5737-288  Fax: +39-010-5737-295  Skype: p.romano
Web: http://www.nettab.org/promano/

21-25 March 2011, TaiChung, Taiwan
http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacwt11/
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Aims and rationale
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Web-related technologies are becoming more and more pervasive and
powerful, with the advent of new exciting concepts, protocols,
languages, and technologies such as Social Software, Web Services, the
Semantic Web, AJAX.  Web applications are progressively evolving into
rich and flexible environments where users can easily access documents,
publish new content, share resources, and interact with others.  This
new class of ubiquitous software systems is emerging, and fostering the
evolution of new cooperation paradigms among people. Novel approaches
and techniques, new tools and frameworks are needed to address the
increasing complexity of these applications.  The Web Technologies
track of ACM SAC aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners from industry and academia working on practical and
foundational aspects of Web technologies as well as other technologies
that in the Web have found new and unexpected application fields.  We
seek original, unpublished contributions that are mainly focused on,
but not necessarily limited to, the following aspects of Web
technologies:
* Web Engineering
* Collaboration on the Web: Wikis, Social Software, and Web 2.0
* Electronic Publishing on the Web
* Emerging Web Technologies
* Expanding the reach of Social Software: Enterprise 2.0, Social
  Software, Business, Process Management, …
* Hypertext, hypermedia, markup languages, and XML-related
  technologies
* Performance, Scalability, and Quality of Service on the Web
* Web Metrics, Monitoring, and Analysis
* (Process-aware) Web Information Systems
* Rich User Experiences and Human Computer Interaction in Web
  applications
* Semantic-enhanced Web applications
* Web Browsers and Web Interfaces
* Web Accessibility
* Mobile Web and Cross-device Content Delivery
* Web Searching
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Proceedings and Post-Proceedings
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Papers accepted for the Web Technologies track will be published by ACM
both in the SAC 2011 proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their work to a forthcoming special issue of Software:
Practice and Experience, Wiley
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/1752/home).
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Paper Submission
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Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be
considered.  This includes three categories of submissions:
1) original and unpublished research;
2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts,
   sciences, engineering, business, government, education and
   industry;
3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.
Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review
process by at least three referees.  The accepted papers in all
categories will be published in the ACM SAC 2011 proceedings.
Submission instruction will be published in a few days on the track web
site (http://www.cs.unibo.it/sacwt11/).
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Relevant Dates
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Aug. 24, 2010: Paper submission
Oct. 12, 2010: Author notification
Nov. 2, 2010: Camera-Ready Copy
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Track chairs and contacts
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Davide Rossi, University of Bologna
Angelo Di Iorio, University of Bologna
Stefano Zacchiroli, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7
E-mail: sacwt11@cs.unibo.it

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Personal Semantic Data: PSD 2010 http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Personal_Semantic_Data co-located with EKAW 2010 11th – 15th October, Lisbon, Portugal

Personal Semantic Data is scattered over several media, and while semantic technologies are already successfully deployed on the Web as well on the desktop, data integration is not always straightforward. The transition from the desktop to a distributed system for Personal Information Management (PIM) raises new challenges which need to be addressed. These challenges overlap areas related to human-computer interaction, privacy and security, information extraction, retrieval and matching.

This workshop will bring together academics and industrial practitioners with the goal of fostering cross-domain collaborations to further advance the use of technologies from the Semantic Web and the Web of Data for PIM and to explore and discuss the challenges and approaches for improving PIM through the use of vast amounts of (semantic) information available online. At the same time we want to provide a platform for discussing research topics and challenges related to personal semantic data.

IMPORTANT DATES • 9 July 2010 – Submission deadline • 9 August 2010 – Notification • 27 August 2010 – Camera-ready version

TOPICS

The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: • Bridging the gap between Semantic Desktop Data and Linked (Open) Data • Interlinking personal desktop data with Semantic Web data • Enriching desktop information with Web data • Publishing semantic personal data from the desktop to the Web, including trust and privacy issues • Mapping and synchronizing personal semantic data from heterogeneous sources • New forms of visualization of mashed and hybrid personal data from the desktop and Web • Managing personal data across heterogeneous social media sites • Mapping and synchronizing personal social data across heterogeneous social media and the desktop • Searching and browsing personal social data across heterogeneous data sources and using heterogeneous interfaces (e.g. mobile devices) • Modeling of semantic information for personal and social use • Generation of personal semantic data from novel sources • Semi-automatic and automatic generation of semantic data from personal information • Fusion of mobile and desktop environments • Interlinking newly generated semantic data with existing sources SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We encourage full papers (max 12 pages), short paper (max 6 pages) and short demo papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain. Submissions should follow the LNCS guidelines. Papers should be submitted in pdf format to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psd2010 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on July 9, 2010. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Laura Dragan – Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland • Bernhard Schandl – Department of Distributed and Multimedia Systems, University of Vienna, Austria • Charlie Abela – Department of Intelligent Computer Systems, University of Malta, Malta • Tudor Groza – Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland • Gunnar Grimnes – DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany • Stefan Decker – Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland FURTHER INFORMATION Further information is available on the workshop website at http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Personal_Semantic_Data or by emailing the workshop organizers.

http://www.cbms2010.curtin.edu.au/

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010) is intended to provide an international forum for discussing the latest results in the field of computational medicine. The scientific program of CBMS 2010 will consist of invited keynote talks given by leading scientists in the field, and regular and special track sessions that cover a broad array of issues which relate computing to medicine.

RELEVANT TOPICS

Network and Telemedicine Systems
Medical Databases & Information Systems
Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Medical Devices with Embedded Computers
Bioinformatics in Medicine
Software Systems in Medicine
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
Web-based Delivery of Medical Information
Medical Image Segmentation & Compression
Content Analysis of Biomedical Image Data
Knowledge-Based & Decision Support Systems
Hand-held Computing Applications in Medicine
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
Signal and Image Processing in Medicine
Multimedia Biomedical Databases

CBMS 2010 invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Many of the above listed topics are represented by corresponding Special Tracks, while others are solely covered by the general CBMS track. Prospective authors are expected to submit their contributions to one of the corresponding Special Tracks or to the general track if none of the special tracks is relevant.

SPECIAL TRACKS

ST1: Computational Proteomics and Genomics
ST2: Knowledge Discovery and Decision Systems in Biomedicine
ST3: Ontologies for Biomedical Systems
ST4: HealthGrid & Cloud Computing
ST5: Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education
ST6: Intelligent Patient Management
ST7: Data Streams in Healthcare
ST8: Supporting Collaboration among Healthcare Workers
ST9: Telemedicine
ST10: Computer-Based Systems for Mental Health
ST11: Image Informatics in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine
ST12: e-Health

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair online submission system. The papers must be prepared following the IEEE two-column format and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages. LaTeX or Microsoft Word templates can be used when preparing the papers. Please, note that only PDF format of submissions is allowed.

Submission web site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbms2010

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register and present the work at the conference; otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for regular papers: 24 June 2010
Deadline for tutorial submission:  24 June 2010
Notification of acceptation for papers and tutorials:  2 Aug 2010
Final camera ready due: 2 Sep 2010
Author registration: 2 Sep 2010

INTENDED AUDIENCE

Engineers, scientists, clinicians and managers involved in medical computing projects are encouraged to submit papers to the symposium and/or attend the symposium. The symposium provides its attendees with an opportunity to experience state-of-the-art research and development in a variety of topics directly and indirectly related to their own work. In addition to research papers, keynote speakers and tutorial sessions it provides participants with an opportunity to come up-to-date on important technological issues. The symposium encourages the participation of students engaged in research/development in computer-based medical systems.

Organizing Committee

GENERAL CHAIRS

Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Daniel Rubin, National Center for Biomedical Ontologies, USA
William Gallagher, University College Dublin, Ireland

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Amandeep Sidhu, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Alexey Tsymbal, Siemens, Germany

PUBLICATION CHAIRS

Mykola Pechenizkiy, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Tony Hu, Drexel University, USA

SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS

Maja Hadzic, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Jake Chen, Indiana University, USA

TUTORIAL CHAIRS

Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Carolyn McGregor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Meifania Chen, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Please join us for FOIS 2010 to be held May 11-14, 2010 at The
Sutton Place Hotel, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

To register, please visit the online registration and information page
http://www.aaai.org/Forms/torontoregistration-form.php

FOIS 2010 will be co-located with AAMAS, ICAPS, KR, and NMR. Options for cross-registration are available.

FOIS is intended to provide a meeting point for researchers with an
interest in formal ontology, where both theoretical issues and concrete applications can be explored in a spirit of genuine interdisciplinarity. The FOIS 2010 program will feature invited talks by John Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany), Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK), and Francis Jeffry Pelletier (Simon Fraser University, Canada), as well as two workshops on Modular Ontologies and Ontology Education.

For complete conference information, please see
http://fois2010.mie.utoronto.ca/

For inquiries regarding registration, please write to AAAI at
toronto10 at aaai.org.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto this May!

The FOIS 2010 Conference Committee

Dear all,

I have the pleasure to announce that the new IAOA Web site is online at http://www.iaoa.org.

Setting up this Web site (which finally includes the membership management system) has been the result of a genuine, more difficult than expected international effort, resulting from the cooperation of several people: John Bateman and the Bremen Ontology Research Group for organizational support and Web content management, Valter Cavecchia from IFN-CNR and the Trento-based company Doitonline.it for application form development, Sira Greco of ISTC-CNR for administrative support, Oliver Kutz of Bremen University for Web site design and development, Peter Yim and Shinya Yamada of CIM3 for the web site infrastructure support, the Ontolog Forum for hosting the previous Web site on the Ontolog collaborative work environment, and finally our treasurer, Laure Vieu from IRIT-CNRS, for her scrupolous supervision of the membership management process.

You are now warmly encouraged to officially subscribe to IAOA, clicking on “Joining IAOA”. The subscription form includes a short questionnaire, please don’t be lazy filling it since the information you put there will be extremely useful to actively involve you in the Association’s activities.

Please note that, according to our statute, new members need to be approved by the Executive Board. So after you confirm your subscription you will receive a message announcing that your membership request will be processed in a few days. A subsequent message will announce you that your payment has been received and the request approved. From this moment you will have access to the member’s area, which, among other things, will allow you access to the Applied Ontology journal, as well as the FOIS and FOMI proceedings.

New members-only facilities are planned for the future.

Your address will also be included in the iaoa-members mailing list (to be announced soon), which you will be allowed to use for news and short announcements within the Association’s scope. Please note that this is not intended as a general discussion mailing list, as we believe that the ontolog forum is more appropriate for this purpose.

The address info@iaoa.org can be used at any time for information and general requests.

Welcome to IAOA!

Nicola Guarino
on behalf of the IAOA Executive Board

Mission Statement:

The International Association for Ontology and its Applications is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general. IAOA is open to all individuals and institutions who share its goals.

http://bit.ly/SMWCamp09

November 7–8 2009 (this weekend), Karlsruhe, Germany

The programme includes various introductory talks and numerous exciting demos and experience reports around SMW:

http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/SMW_Camp_09_-_Schedule

Further demos/break-out sessions can be planned during the event. Or you can just add your own demo to the bottom of the programme page. We will also have quite some discussions about the next steps of SMW and its extensions.

See you in Karlsruhe!

Cheers,

Markus Krötzsch
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute AIFB
Englerstraße 11 (Geb. 11.40), 76131 Karlsruhe,  Germany

phone: +49 (0)721 608 7362
fax:   +49 721 608 6580
email: markus.kroetzsch@kit.edu
web:   http://korrekt.org

http://semantic-web-book.org
http://semantic-mediawiki.org

KIT – Universität des Landes Baden-Württemberg und nationales
Großforschungszentrum in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

*alphanumerics in parens are purplenumbers

5th in the series of a 3-month annual event by and for the Ontology Community. This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA, … (more, coming!)    (22PR)*

What's New:    (22PS)

Preliminary organization work is now on-the-way – see: /GettingOrganized    (22PT)

The 2010 NIST Interoperability Week is going to be on the week of 15-Mar-2010    (22PU)

Our 2-day OntologySummit2010_Symposium has now been scheduled for March 15 & 16, 2010 (Monday and Tuesday), and, like the previous years, it will be held at the NIST campus at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.    (22PV)

Objective:    (22PW)

Theme: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future"    (22US)

Description, Goals & Objectives:    (22PZ)

(draft) Increasingly, major national and international projects centered on ontology technology are being advanced by governments and by scientific and industrial organizations. This brings a growing need for ontology expertise and thus for new methods and institutions for the training of ontologists. The 2010 Ontology Summit will explore strategies to address this need in terms of curriculum, establishment of new career tracks, role of ontology support organizations and funding agencies, as well as training in the analysis and comparison of methodologies for designing, maintaining, implementing, testing and applying ontologies and associated tools and resources.    (22UT)

Process & Deliverables    (22V3)

Similar to our last 4 summits, this Ontology Summit will comprise of 3 months of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), and will culminate in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium to be held on Mon & Tue, 15 & 16-March-2010 at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US) during which we will, among other things, distill our thoughts into a collaboratively developed Communiqué (and possibly even a range of follow-up projects and action items.)    (22V4)

The Team    (22PX)

Organizing Committee:    (22PY)

BarrySmith    (22UU)

FabianNeuhaus    (22UV)

LeoObrst    (22UW)

MarkCarlisle    (22UX)

MarkMusen    (22UY)

NicolaGuarino    (22UZ)

PeterYim    (22V0)

SimonFrechette    (22V1)

SteveRay    (22V2)

… (more, coming!)