*REMINDER* (01)
*Last Day to Register for On-site Attendance* (02)
On-site attendees *must register with NIST* on/before Monday,
March 6, 2006 to enter their facilities. Online registration is
available at: https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/conf_ext.cfm?conf_id=1536
(No on-site registration will be accepted. See also:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics#nidK7W) (03)
These meetings are open to all (who find the subject relevant).
There is no cost for attendance. However, all attendees must
register beforehand on/before the deadlines listed below. Feel
free to forward this to colleagues of yours who might find this
event of interest. (04)
For and on behalf of the UOS
Organizing Committee, (05)
Peter P. Yim
Ontolog Forum, co-convener
-- (06)
Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:58:04 -0800:
> *ANNOUNCEMENT*
>
> On March 15, 2006 Ontolog, NIST and SICoP (along with its two
> sub-groups: ONTAC-WG (Ontology and Taxonomy Coordination Working Group)
> and COSMO-WG (Common Semantic Model Working Group) are organizing an
> "Upper Ontology Summit" ("UOS"). This UOS will be a full-day workshop /
> panel discussion event to be held at the US National Institute of
> Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, hosted by Dr.
> Steven Ray of NIST. The workshop will focus on developing a method and
> the resources to relate existing upper ontologies to each other, and to
> share the information on this very important effort with the public.
>
> We are especially pleased that we are finally able to bring together all
> the key public top-level ontology creators / custodians (including
> OpenCyc, SUMO, DOLCE, DOLCE-D&S, BFO, ISO15926 & PSL) to the same
> workshop to consider how to interrelate those ontologies in such a way
> as to provide a freely available common ontology that has sufficient
> detail to precisely specify meanings of terms and concepts in domain
> ontologies and which is compatible with each of the starting upper
> ontologies.
>
>
> *Panelists/Speakers*:
>
> Dr. John Bateman - Spatial Cognition
> Dr. Patrick Cassidy (SICoP / ONTAC, Mitre, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Aldo Gangemi - DOLCE-D&S (Description & Situation extensions)
> Dr. Michael Gruninger - PSL / ISO 18629
> Dr. Nicola Guarino - DOLCE
> Dr. Douglas Lenat - OpenCyc
> Dr. Brand Niemann (Session Chair, SICoP, EPA, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog, Mitre, UOS-org-comm)
> Mr. Adam Pease - SUMO
> Dr. Steven Ray (Meeting Chair, NIST, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Barry Smith - BFO (remote, from Europe),
> with Dr. Werner Ceusters (ECOR)
> Dr. Matthew West - ISO 15926-2
>
> More details (developing) on this Upper Ontology Summit event is
> available at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
>
>
> *Date/Venue details*:
>
> Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
>
> 9 am ~ 12 noon EST - "Upper Ontology Application Dialog"
> Session Chair: Dr. Brand Niemann, EPA & SICoP Chair
> In addition to the panelists, organizers, and key participants, early
> adopters, potential users and potential funders of ontology development
> will be invited to discuss mutual concerns.
>
> 1 pm ~ 5 pm EST - The "Upper Ontology Summit" Panel Session
> Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray, NIST
> The purpose of this panel is to bring together those who recognize the
> value of open upper ontologies, and in particular, the custodians
> (developers or maintainers) of the public versions of existing upper
> ontologies to find a way to interrelate those ontologies in such a way
> as to provide a freely available common ontology that has sufficient
> detail to precisely specify meanings of terms and concepts in domain
> ontologies and which is compatible with each of the starting upper
> ontologies. Key drivers and benefits of such endeavor will be explored
> in detail.
> This session is open to the public.
>
> The sessions are accessible both on-site at NIST (Gaithersburg,
> Maryland, USA) as well as through remote dial in.
>
> More details regarding on-site attendance is available at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics
>
>
> Dial-in information will be posted closer to the time of the event.
> (Please be on the look out for further announcements.)
>
> The entire Upper Ontology Summit session will be recorded and made
> available as open content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR policy (see:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
>
> I look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass this
> announcement along to those who might be interested to participate and
> contribute to the discussion. All are welcomed.
>
>
> *Registration*: [IMPORTANT DATES, please note!]
>
> On-site attendees *must register with NIST* on/before Monday, March 6,
> 2006 to enter their facilities. Online registration is available at:
> https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/conf_ext.cfm?conf_id=1536
> (No on-site registration will be accepted. See also:
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics#nidK7W)
>
>
>
> Note also that the special hotel rates for rooms blocked off for this
> event will only apply if you make your reservation on/before this
> Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. See details at:
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics#nidK81
>
>
>
> Remote attendees should e-mail me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline
> on/before Saturday, March 11, 2006.
>
>
> For and on behalf of the UOS
> Organizing Committee,
>
> Peter P. Yim
> Ontolog Forum, co-convener
>
> Members of the UOS Organizing Committee:
> Patrick Cassidy (SICoP/ONTAC, Mitre)
> Kurt Conrad (Ontolog, Sagebrush)
> Brand Niemann (SICoP, EPA)
> Leo Obrst (Ontolog, Mitre)
> Steven Ray (NIST)
> Dagobert Soergel (SICoP/COSMO, UMD)
> Peter Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
>
>
> P.S. This "Upper Ontology Summit" is being organized as part of the
> NIST's "Interoperability Week" event. Members of the community are
> invited and encouraged to participate in other meetings that are being
> held at the NIST the same week. Please refer to details at:
> http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm
>
>
> P.P.S. Reference Links:
>
> Ontolog - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
>
> SICoP - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP#nid2YPR
>
> ONTAC-WG -
> http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG#nid2QJO
>
>
> COSMO-WG - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CosmoWG#nid306M
>
> NIST - http://nist.gov
> NIST Interoperability Week -
> http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/index.htm
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