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http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_21 (01)
*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the second
event of the joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR mini-series on
"Ontology Measurement and Evaluation." Professor Barry
Smith, Director of the US National Center for
Ontological Research (NCOR) will be our invited speaker
on Thursday, 21-Dec-2006. He will be giving a talk
entitled: "Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO
Foundry Initiative". (03)
We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this
virtual event. (04)
*Conference call-in details*: (05)
Date: Thursday, 21-Dec-2006 Start Time: 10:30am PST /
1:30pm EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
(World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=21&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224) (06)
Session Duration: 1.5~2.0 Hours Dial-in Number:
o from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
o from a phone (Europe): 0870-119-1313 (UK)
or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
o callers from other countries please dial into
either one of the US or European numbers
o Conference ID: "5823120#"
o Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
Shared-screen support will be available (07)
Session Chair : *Dr. Steven Ray* (Chief, MSID, US-NIST)
Invited Speaker: *Professor Barry Smith* (NCOR
Director, SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA.) (08)
Topic: *Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine:*
*The OBO Foundry Initiative* (09)
*Abstract*: (by Barry Smith) (010)
The OBO Foundry (http://obofoundry.org) is a subset of
ontologies drawn from the Open Biomedical Ontologies
library, whose developers have agreed to adhere to an
evolving set of principles governing best practices in
ontology development. We describe initial lessons
learned from this collaborative experiment as concerns
ontology evaluation and evolution. (011)
*About the Speaker*: (012)
*Barry Smith* is Director of the National Center for
Ontological Research (NCOR), and Julian Park
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University
at Buffalo, NY, USA. He is also the Director of the
Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information
Science at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. (013)
Professor Smith has authored some 400 scientific
publications, including 15 authored or edited books. He
is also editor of The Monist: An International
Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. His
research has been funded by the US, Swiss and Austrian
National Science Foundations, the Volkswagen
Foundation, and the European Union. In 2002 he
received, in recognition of his scientific
achievements, the 2.2 Million Euro Wolfgang Paul Award
of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. (014)
Professor Smith’s current research focus is ontology
and its applications in biomedicine and biomedical
informatics, including a variety of projects relating
to biomedical terminologies and electronic health
records. He is also collaborating with Hernando de
Soto, Director of the Institute for Liberty and
Democracy in Lima, Peru, on the ontology of property
rights and social development. (015)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_21 (016)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented
conference call. The session is expected to start with
a 1 Hour presentation followed by a Q&A and discussion
between the participants and the speaker. The entire
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). (017)
As usual, this Ontolog event is open to all. I look
forward to having you at this session. Please pass the
announcement along to those who might be interested to
join us too. (018)
*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 aren't already a member of the Ontolog
community.) (019)
Regards. =ppy (020)
Peter P. Yim Co-convener, Ontolog
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