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*INVITATION* (02)
*Ontology Summit 2007* -
*Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions* (03)
After three months of preparation, survey, analysis and rigorous
virtual discourse, the Ontology Summit 2007 Symposium, which is a
part of the NIST Interoperability Week's program, is finalizing
arriving next Tuesday, 24-April-2007. (04)
For those who are not coming to the summit in person (at NIST,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA), we invite you to join us remotely
via our augmented phone conferencing facility. (05)
*Conference call-in details*: (06)
Date: Tuesday, 24-April-2007
Start Time: 1:00 PM EDT / 10:00 AM PDT / 17:00 UTC
(World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=24&year=2007&hour=13&min=00&sec=0&p1=263 (07)
)
Session Duration: 4.0 Hours
On-site Location: Lecture Room-D, NIST - Main Building
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Remote Participant Dial-in Number:
o from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
o from Europe, call:
* Belgium 070-35-9989
* France 0826-100-277
* Germany 01805-00-7649
* Ireland 0818-270-034
* Italy 0848-390-175
* Switzerland 0848-560-195
* UK 0870-738-0763
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 (08)
Summit Symposium Co-Chair:
*Dr. Steven Ray* (NIST) & Dr. Deborah McGuinness (Stanford-KSL) (09)
Keynote Speaker: *Dr. Tom Gruber* (TagCommons) (010)
Speakers: (011)
* Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank)
* Dr. Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, NIH)
* Mr. Peter Brown (eGovernment Expert, EU Parliament)
* Professor Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto)
* Professor Christopher Menzel (Texas A&M University)
* Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE)
* Dr. Frank Olken (NSF) (012)
*Abstract*: (013)
Building upon the successful model of last year's
UpperOntologySummit, co-sponsors from NIST, Ontolog, MITRE, NCOR,
NCBO, NLM/NIH, W3C, TagCommons, Stanford-KSL and others (see: our
list of co-sponsors) are initiating a second summit during the
spring of 2007. (014)
We are convening key players in both research and applications
who profess in developing or facilitating the evolution of
"ontologies" and structures that help model semantics, to join us
in our Ontology Summit 2007 activity to help everyone understand
the distinctions between Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy and all
the terms in between that various communities employ to label
those "ontologies" or "structures." (015)
The challenge, this year, put before the various constituencies
and communities involved, is to clarify what everyone means when
they use the term "ontology" or when they refer to these semantic
structures. Our objective is to define and agree to a systematic
means of categorizing the many kinds of things that fall broadly
within the "ontology" spectrum. By doing so, the research,
development and Internet communities would have a better way of
comparing, combining and mapping ontologies to one another
(apples to apples). The range of what people call "ontologies"
covers folksonomies, taxonomies, thesauri, conceptual models, and
formal logic-based models to name just a few flavors. (016)
The Ontolog Forum has initiated a vigorous online discourse on
the subject matter, and has come up with promising strawman
structures to characterize all of these possibilities, and more.
This session culminates the three months of virtual discourse,
survey, syntheses and the last two days' face-to-face workshop.
We are here to deliver the broad perspectives, findings and
conclusions of "Ontology Summit 2007." (017)
*Please refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Symposium (018)
... as well as details of the entire "Ontology Summit 2007"
initiative, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007 (019)
Both on-site* and remote participation are supported. For the
remote participants, this will be a virtual session over an
augmented conference call. (020)
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). (021)
As usual, this joint NIST-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. (022)
*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.) (023)
Regards. =ppy (024)
Peter P. Yim
for and on behalf of,
the Ontology Summit 2007 organizing committee (025)
P.S.
1. *please note that prior registration is mandatory (especially
for on-site attendees). Please refer to details at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007#nidV3W (026)
2. there are 3 other technical summit workshops (Apr-23 am/pm &
Apr-24 am) immediately preceding this symposium. Those, too, are
open to the public. Anyone interested (who is not a convener of
the summit) is welcomed to attend as an observer. See:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007#nid104W
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