Dear
Colleagues,
The Ontology Summit 2009, “Toward Ontology-based Standards,” was held this week
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with
representation from major standards development organizations, industry,
government, and academia. As is traditional at these summits, a summit resolution
and endorsement statement was released in the form of a communiqué, and can be
reviewed at http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009_Communique.
This email is to invite you, as an interested practitioner, to be listed as an
endorser of the communiqué, which we hope will accelerate the incorporation of
ontology practices in current and future standards, yielding the benefits identified
in the communiqué. If you would like to be associated with this movement,
please send an email to Peter Yim (peter.yim@xxxxxxxx)
and me (steve@xxxxxxxxxxx), and we will
ensure your name is listed as an endorser, or you can simply click here.
Note that the site carries a disclaimer
that your endorsement is made as an individual and not as a representative of
your organization.
We will be closing this invitation at the end of Friday, April 17th,
so please respond soon.
Best
regards, and thanks for your support.
Steven
R. Ray
Chair,
Ontology Summit 2009