[ontolog-invitation] Registration Deadlines are fast approaching for the

["Steve Ray" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is an update for those considering participating in the 2008 Ontology Summit, to highlight two deadlines that are coming up:

 

Sunday, April 13^th is the last day you can book a room at the Holiday Inn in Gaithersburg for the $113/night conference rate. (See http://www.nist.gov/cgi-bin/exit_nist.cgi?url=""> to book the hotel, and mention you will be attending “Interoperability Week”)

 

Monday, April 21^st is the closing day for registration for the Summit if you plan to attend in person. This is because the meeting is being held at a government facility where preregistration is required. Go to http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm to register.

 

So, if you have put off taking action, the time has come to stop that procrastinating.

I have enclosed the earlier notice for the meeting should you want additional information. The on-line discussions have been fast and furious, so please check them out.

 

From: Steve Ray [mailto:ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:13 AM
To: 'ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Registration is now open for the 2008 Ontology Summit

 

On behalf of the Ontolog Forum, the National Center for Ontological Research, and NIST, I would like to invite you to participate in this year’s Ontology Summit face-to-face workshop, which is scheduled for April 28-29, 2008, as part of NIST’s annual “Interoperability Week” dedicated to a spectrum of issues surrounding effective exchange of information.

 

The theme of the 2008 Ontology Summit this year is the vision of an Open Ontology Repository. This vision forms the basis of the Open Ontology Repository community, and this year's summit will support their effort to produce such a repository (or set of repositories) by serving as a venue - both virtual and face-to-face - in which many of the issues relating to the design, implementation, and ongoing use of an ontology repository can be discussed and ultimately resolved. In particular, these issues will include the themes of the 2006 and 2007 Ontology Summits (Upper Ontologies, and a framework for classification of ontologies, respectively), and this year's summit will thus also provide an opportunity to revisit the conclusions reached at those two prior meetings.

 

Because NIST is a government facility, pre-registration for the physical meeting is required. Please visit http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm before April 21st to register. There is no registration fee.

 

We have already begun addressing the issues through an on-line discussion, which you can catch up with at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008. The workshop on April 28^th is simply the culmination of this process, so please jump in right away.

 

 

Steven R. Ray – Ontology Summit host

Email: ray@xxxxxxxx

Web: http://www.nist.gov/msid

 

 

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