For everyone's information ... (01)
Your participation in this year's Ontology Summit is welcome ... (02)
see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008
& http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid16TD (03)
=ppy
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From: Steve Ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Feb 10, 2008 4:41 PM
Subject: [ontology-summit] Proceedings of the Ontology Summit 2008 Launch Event
To: Ontology Summit 2008 <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (05)
On Thursday, February 7th, 2008, the highly productive launch of this
year's Ontology Summit took place. Detailed minutes of the launch can
be viewed at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_02_07,
supplemented as usual with a full audio recording of the event (see
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_02_07#nid18Z2). (06)
At the launch, four committees that have been formed to support the
summit were introduced. Their principal responsibilities are: (07)
· Organizing Committee, charged with the overall
responsibility for the summit (08)
· Content Committee to manage the ongoing discussion beginning
with the launch and lasting until the face-to-face meeting in April (09)
· Logistics Committee overseeing the arrangements for the
face-to-face meeting (010)
· Advisory Committee responsible for outreach and liaison with
other relevant organizations (011)
The five initial discussion threads were also identified, along with
those responsible for tracking and synthesizing the discusions: (012)
• Communiqué and Mission Statement (013)
• Synthesis by the Organizing Committee (014)
• Ontology Repository Architecture (015)
• Synthesis by Michelle Raymond and Ravi Sharma (016)
• Ontology of Ontologies (017)
• Synthesis by Michael Gruninger and Pat Hayes (018)
• Quality / Gatekeeping (019)
• Synthesis by Barry Smith (co-champion was solicited) (020)
• State of the Art Repository Work (021)
• Synthesis by Frank Olken (022)
There was strong involvement from those on the call, and everyone is
encouraged to join in the ongoing technical discussions that will be
taking place on the [ontology-summit] mailing list. (023)
Watch the [ontolog-invitation] list for further announcements of
Ontolog events that may be of interest, or browse the listing under
the "News & Announcements" section at the Ontolog WikiHomePage (at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW ) for
upcoming events. (024)
An archive of noteworthy past Ontolog events can be found at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (025)
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From: Peter P. Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Feb 5, 2008 6:51 AM
Subject: [ontolog-invitation] NIST-Ontolog-NCOR: "Ontology Summit
2008" Launch Event - Thu 2008.02.07
To: ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (026)
************************ Headlines ************************ (027)
Your are cordially invited to join us at the following
(virtual) event: (028)
*Thu 07 February 2008* - Ontology Summit 2008: "Toward an Open
Ontology Repository" - Launch Event (029)
[ see details at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_02_07
] (030)
Register your attendance by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
offline (kindly indicate the event when responding.) (031)
******************** Details ************************ (032)
Your are cordially invited to join us at the upcoming Ontology
Summit 2008 (virtual) launch events. (033)
This online events is open and free of charge. Anyone who is
interested, or (better still) who may have something to
contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details on the
session page, to which the hyperlink is given below, where you
will find session agenda, conference call dial-in and other
pertinent information. (034)
*Thu 07-February-2008* - This is the (virtual) kick-off for the
3rd Ontology Summit, a joint initiative by NIST-Ontolog-NCOR
(along with other co-organizers and co-sponsors.) The theme
adopted by the community for Ontology Summit 2008 is: "Toward an
Open Ontology Repository. The Summit will comprise three months
of virtual discourse - delving into the key issues like
architecture, ontology, quality and metric, as well as a survey
of the state-of-art in "Open Ontology Repository." The discourse
culminates in a two-day face-to-face workshop (April 28 & 29,
2008 at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) as part of the NIST
Interoperability Week 2008 program. Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) will
chair this session. He will be introducing the "Ontology Summit
2008" objective, organization, process, deliverables and
preliminary plans. That will be followed by an open discussion,
during which we solicit your input and participation to make this
initiative a success, in terms of how it could help advance the
field of ontology, ontological engineering and semantic
technology, and advocate their adoption into mainstream
applications and international standards. ... Please refer to
details at the session wiki page at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_02_07 (035)
*RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline so that
we can prepare enough resources to support everyone. (Kindly
include your affiliation and job title if you haven't joined us
before in similar virtual events.) Please state
"OntologySummit2008 Launch" in your registration response. (036)
Please note that this session will be recorded, and the audio
archive is expected to be made available as open content to our
community membership and the public at-large under our prevailing
open IPR policy (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32). (037)
Regards. =ppy (038)
For and on behalf of the (developing)
ONTOLOGY SUMMIT 2008 Organizing Committee: (039)
Professor Mark Musen (NCOR, NCBO, Stanford-BMIR)
Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE)
Dr. Steven Ray (NIST)
Ms. Michelle Raymond (Honeywell)
Professor Barry Smith (NCOR, SUNY-Buffalo)
Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog, CIM3) (040)
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- Steve Ray (042)
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