Todd, (01)
Believe you worked on an "out-of-date" copy of the Communique draft. (02)
Ref. the discussion at the Mar-11 community session
(http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_03_11 )
Fabian has already update the Communique draft (to something quite
different) ...
see (what's there now):
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_Communique/Draft (03)
You might want to communicate with BarrySmith and FabianNeuhaus (Lead
Editors of the Communique) to try to coordinate getting further input
into the draft. (04)
Regards. =ppy
-- (05)
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Todd J Schneider
<todd.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's my revision of the summit communique.
>
> Summary (2ASQ)
> Increasingly, major national, international, and commercial projects,
> systems, and products employing semantic technologies are being undertaken
> by governments, scientific, and industrial organizations. A key aspect of
> semantic technologies are ontologies, without which these efforts will
> fail. This creates a growing need for ontology expertise and thus for new
> methods and institutions for the training of ontologists. The goal of the
> 2010 Ontology Summit was to develop a strategy for the education of
> ontologists, both in the academic and commercial worlds. To achieve this
> goal we studied (i) how ontologists are currently trained, (ii) the
> requirements by organizations that hire ontologists, and (iii)
> developments that might impact the training of ontologists in the future.
> (2B98)
> The main findings and results of the Ontology Summit are: (2B99)
> 1. There is already a large demand for ontologists, and the demand is
> expected to increase as semantic technologies become more successful.
> (2B9A)
> 2. There are very few training opportunities for ontologists.
> (2B9I)
> 3. Organizations that want to hire ontologists often have
> difficulties in identifying qualified candidates since there is no
> professional organization that certifies ontologists
> 4. Very few educational institutions that offer training for
> ontologists. (2B9B)
> 5. A list of recommended knowledge and skills that should be taught
> to future ontologists was developed. These recommendations are intended as
> guidelines for institutions that might consider establishing a program for
> training ontologists. (2B9H)
> As next steps, the Ontolog community recommends a more detailed
> description of the requisite knowledge and skills. Further, we recommend
> the development of a repository that allows educators to exchange training
> material for ontologists. Most importantly, we encourage educational
> institutions to establish programs that address the growing need for
> ontologists. (2B95)
>
> Todd (06)
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