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Started by Ontolog and NIST in 2006, the Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and other communities related to each year's theme. The summit is largely a self-organizing, bottom-up, volunteer driven effort, that solicits contributions from participants around the world in both industry and academia. Participants use multiple communication platforms to share and develop ideas, and work towards a consensus. {nid 39BZ}
Started by Ontolog and NIST in 2006, the Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and other communities related to each year's theme.
Founded by experienced, senior leaders in the community, each driven by a desire to collaborate across companies, projects, subfields to address issues relevant across the field and to advance the technology and practice generally. The summit is largely a self-organizing, bottom-up, volunteer driven effort, that solicits contributions from participants around the world in both industry and academia. Moreover, the community successfully exploits a variety of communication platforms to share and develop ideas, and work towards a consensus. {nid 39QS}

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Each year's Summit consists of a series events and continued discourse spaning three months, culminating in a two-day face-to-face workshop and symposium at the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Discussions employ email, chat and teleconferences, including presentations given by experts speaking about issues relevant to each year’s theme. A Communique is developed throughout the summit and finalized at the symposium, endorsed by participants and capturing the most important findings. {nid 39C0}
Each year's Summit consists of a series events and continued discourse spanning three months, culminating in a free, two-day face-to-face workshop and symposium at the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Discussions employ email, chat and teleconferences, including presentations given by experts about issues relevant to each year’s theme. A Summit Communique, capturing the most important findings is developed throughout the summit and finalized at the symposium, endorsed by participants. {nid 39QT}

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Bringing together a diverse and dispersed group of volunteers to self-organize and contribute toward a common goal is a particularly difficult collective action problem. A unique attribute of the ontology summit is that it accomplishes this outside the traditional conference framework. Its open IP policy, coupled with continued commitment and support by Ontolog, ensures that all generated material, including ideas, stories, arguments, presentations, audio recordings and transcripts are archived and available in the public domain. {nid 39QU}

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Vigorous discussions have been spread over the past three months in the guise of virtual panel sessions, where invited speakers present a topic to groups of up to 60 live participants, alongside a live chat. The audio, presentation and transcripts of all the virtual sessions have been generously and diligently archived by Ontolog and have developed into a valuable and rich content resource. Discourse is furthered by ongoing emails that flesh out points of contention and propose a variety of views on the topic matter. {nid 39C1}
A group of initial volunteers organize and facilitate the summit activities, while seeking panelists and soliciting participation from leading companies and labs. Additionally, the community maintains low barriers to participations, welcoming both well-established professionals and those new to the field. Consequently, personal or corporate agenda are largely overwhelmed in this framework, allowing discussions to focus the challenges associated with each year’s theme. {nid 39QV}

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After three months of weekly virtual panels and email discussions, the summit culminates in a two-day face-to-face workshop and symposium at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.) The publication of a Summit Communique each year, at the end of the face-to-face symposium, to get an annual message from the participants to the world-at-large, has also been a signature activity of this Ontology Summit series. {nid 39C2}

The Ontology Summit program is now co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA, NCO_NITRD along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives. {nid 39C3}
The Ontology Summit program is now co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA, NCO_NITRD along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives. {nid 39QW}