[iaoa-general] Survey on present ontology education content and quality

[Nicola Guarino <nicolguar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

as you might be aware already, IAOA is co-organizing (together with Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO and others) the Ontology Summit 2010 (http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010), which will be focused this year on education and training initiatives centered on applied ontology and ontology-related technologies. This is clearly a very important event for our Association, and we really count on your active involvement to contribute shaping our community, promoting high-quality ontological research, and offering young people – everywhere in the world – concrete training opportunities. 

For this reason, I warmly recommend everybody to respond to the surveys described by the attached message from Peter Yim.

Let me take this opportunity to remind you that the present list - IAOA-general - is a TEMPORARY list: according to our Statute, to be a member of the Association you have to make an official application and to pay the subscription fee (valid throughout 2010), by visiting the web site www.iaoa.org, which is now fully operational and completely redesigned. Only official members will have the right to participate to the Association's activities and to enjoy the facilities reserved to them, such as the full-text access to the Applied Ontology journal, the FOIS conference proceedings and other ontology-related publications. Moreover, only members will be allowed to post announcements on the members mailing list, and the present mailing list will slowly disappear, being substituted by iaoa-members@xxxxxxxx.

Best wishes everybody for a great 2010,

Nicola Guarino

President, IAOA

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Subject: Fwd: Invitation to participate - Survey on "Present Ontology
Education/Training Content & Quality"
To: "[ontolog-invitation]" <ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Folks,


This is the first of 3 surveys that form a part of the research
conducted in the course of Ontology Summit 2010.

The three surveys will revolve around:

1. Present ontology[*] education/training content and quality.

2. Ontology education/training requirments and quality expectations, and

3. The future of ontologists

If you are currently or potentially,
 (a) an educator/trainer of ontologists,
 (b) an employer/manager of ontologists or ontology-related
professionals , or
 (c) an ontologist or aspiring ontologist yourself

... we need your input and insights.

  [*]  Note: by “ontology” here, we mean "Ontology for Information
Science" (and not "Ontology" as the philosophical study that is a part
of metaphysics.)

In this first study, we are looking to those who are currently
providing education and training in Ontology and ontology-related
disciplines. Your response will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks & regards.  =ppy

For and on behalf of the
OntologySummit2010 Organizing Committee
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010


P.S.  Do note that responses will be made available as open content to
our community and the public at-large under our prevailing open IPR
policy
(ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 ).
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sanchez, Arturo <asanchez@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Subject: Invitation to participate
To: ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>, peter.yim@xxxxxxxxx


Dear Fellow Ontologist,

As you may know, the theme of this year's Ontology Summit
is "Creating the Ontologists of the Future". Detailed
information about it can be found at

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010

In preparation for the summit, we are collecting information
to establish the nature and extent of current educational
and training provision in Ontology throughout the world.
To this end, we invite you to participate in the survey
which you can access at

https://survey.unf.edu/survey/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D237A2884B

The survey will be available until 11'30 PM
on February 15, 2010 (US/EST).

We estimate that completing the survey should take between
10 minutes and half an hour of your time, depending on how
much information you are able to supply. Please feel free
to forward the link to anyone else who you think may be able
to supply information.

When the survey is complete, the results will be reported
at the final summit Symposium in March. They will also be
made available to the community on-line.

Yours sincerely

Dr. Antony Galton (School of Engineering, Computing,
and Mathematics. University of Exeter, UK):
A.P.Galton_AT_exeter.ac.uk

Dr. Arturo Sánchez-Ruíz (School of Computing,
University of North Florida, USA):
ASanchez_AT_unf.edu

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Nicola Guarino

Head, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR

Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

National Research Council 

Via alla Cascata, 56/C

38100 Povo (Trento), Italy

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President, Int. Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)

www.iaoa.org

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