Thank you to those who attended yesterday’s call that
covered the 2009 Ontology Summit. As a result of the call:
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I have amended the phrasing of the summit communiqué to
better clarify the listing of the nine projects as *examples* that
illustrate the intent of the community. I hope that more of you will now be
comfortable in endorsing the communiqué.
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We will have a dedicated mailing list on which to
continue discussions arising from the summit (such as the current discussion on
units and measures). Stay tuned for the announcement of that list.
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Peter Yim has posted the chat transcript and audio
archive of yesterday’s call.
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We have agreed to revisit the nine projects, and
possibly other additional projects, on a quarterly basis, to maintain the
momentum and visibility as they move forward.
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A number of ideas have been put forward for
consideration as topics for next year’s summit, including:
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Natural language / controlled language research
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Use cases and business cases for ontologies
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Education and training
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Categories of ontology applications (possibly
combined with the use-case idea above)
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Barriers to ontology use
Please see the chat transcript for other related ideas. I
hope that you will continue to be engaged as we help, as a community, to move
this technology into the mainstream.
Steven R. Ray, Chair
2009 Ontology Summit