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http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 (01)
*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the
"Ontology Summit 2007" program which we are launching
at this conference call. This will be three months of
virtual discourse that culminates in a two-day
face-to-face workshop (April 23 & 24, 2007 at
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) and a written communiqué
that would help clarify what everyone means when they
use the term "ontology." At this launch, we will be
introducing the "Ontology Summit 2007" objective,
organization, process, deliverables and preliminary
plans to you, and we welcome your ideas and participation. (03)
We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this
virtual event. (04)
*Conference call-in details*: (05)
Date: Thursday, 18-January-2007
Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
(World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=18&year=2007&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224) (06)
Session Duration: 1.5 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 Co-Moderators :
*Dr. Steven Ray* (NIST, US)
*Dr. Leo Obrst* (Ontolog, MITRE)
*Mr. Peter Yim* (Ontolog, CIM3) (08)
Topic: *Ontology Summit 2007 Project Launch* (09)
*Abstract*: (by Steve Ray / Leo Obrst / Peter Yim) (010)
Building upon the successful model of last year's
UpperOntologySummit, co-organizers from NIST, Ontolog,
NCOR, NCBO, NIH, W3C, the Web 2.0 community and others
(to be confirmed) are initiating a second summit during
the spring of 2007. (011)
We are hoping to convene key players in both research
and applications who profess in developing or
facilitating the evolution of "ontologies" to join us
in our Ontology Summit 2007 activity to help answer the
simple, yet very important question: "What is an
Ontology?". The challenge put before the ontology
community this year is to clarify what everyone means
when they use the term "ontology". Our objective is to
define and agree to a systematic means of categorizing
the many kinds of things that are referred to as "an
ontology." 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 so-called "folksonomies",
taxonomies, thesauri, conceptual models, and formal
logic-based models to name just a few flavors. The
Ontolog Forum plans to initiate a vigorous on-line
discussion of promising strawman structures to
characterize all of these possibilities, and more,
culminating in a face-to-face meeting during NIST's
Interoperability Week 2007 (scheduled for the week of
April 23, 2007). Similar to last year's summit, the
meeting will release a written communique to the
international press, laying out the final
categorization structure and locating some key
ontologies within it. (012)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 (013)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented
conference call. The session is expected to include a
presentation followed by a Q&A and discussion between
the participants and the organizing committee members.
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). (014)
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. (015)
*RSVP* 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.) (016)
Regards. =ppy (017)
Peter P. Yim Co-convener, Ontolog
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