As promoting the use and publicizing "upper ontologies" is one of
the main goals of this Upper Ontology Summit, we are hoping to
get as many organizations to endorse the effort as we can. (01)
To this end, the UOS Organizing Committee has designated the
label of 'Co-sponsors' for enlisting institutional support.
'Co-sponsors' are organizations who would provide technical or
funding support (which all of you are already doing), and/or
endorsing the purpose of this Upper Ontology Summit effort. No
other 'cost' or requirement are involved ... other than
everyone's good intentions. (02)
We are hoping we can include all the relevant organizations each
and everyone of us (here on this [uos-convene] list) are directly
involved with to be a co-sponsor. (03)
I have compiled a draft list as follows (no particular order): (04)
# NCOR (BarrySmith & MarkMusen)
# ECOR (WernerCeusters & BarrySmith)
# MITRE (LeoObrst & PatCassidy)
# CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies /
Laboratory of Applied Ontology (Trento & Rome) (NicolaGuarino &
AldoGangemi)
# Cycorp (DougLenat)
# Aritculate Software (AdamPease)
# Shell (MatthewWest)
# IBM (ChrisWelty)
# Boeing (MichaelUschold)
# Ontology Works (BillAndersen)
# University of Bremen (JohnBateman)
# University of Toronto (MichaelGruninger)
# University of Maryland (DagobertSoergel)
# Texas A&M University (ChrisMenzel)
# University at Buffalo (BarrySmith)
# Stanford University (MarkMusen)
# EPA (BrandNiemann)
# National Center for Biomedical Ontology [cBio] (MarkMusen)
# IEEE P1600.1 SUO-WG (JimSchoening)
# ISO 15926 Working Group (MatthewWest)
# ISO 18629 Working Group (MichaelGruninger)
# DERI ? (DieterFensel)
# USC and/or ISI ? (JerryHobbs)
# UMBC ? (SergeiNirenberg)
# NSF ? (MariaZemankova ... please help confirm)
# HITOP (MarcWine ... BrandNiemann please help confirm)
# FEA-DRM ? (BrandNiemann please help confirm)
# NIH and/or NCI and/or UMLS ? (MarkMusen please help confirm)
# UBL ? (PeterYim please help confirm)
# OASIS ? (PeterYim please help confirm) (05)
So far, I've got every organization there as a 'candidate' for
now, and will hope to move them to the 'confirmed' co-sponsor
list quickly ... a latest version of this list will be updated
and posted under:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIOJ (06)
Also, I have a few names with "?" behind them ... there are some
dependencies in these cases. Will the people cited with these
names please help and work on them. (07)
I would need to know, from everyone: (08)
1. if they can't be or don't want to be listed as a 'co-sponsor',
or would need some time to get clearance to do so. (09)
2. if they want the co-sponsorship to be worded in a particular
way, say to a broader or narrower organizational designation.
(e.g. Mark might want "Stanford Medical Informatics" instead of
"Stanford University" because the latter would probably take too
long to clear, ... etc.) (010)
3. if there are more institutional support that you can help
round up, please help by seeking the same and providing their
name. (e.g. Nicola and/or Mark may help get the Journal of
Applied Ontology as a co-sponsor, ... etc.) (011)
4. Other comments or suggestions regarding this matter, and more
broadly on how we can improve on the promotional effort. (012)
Let's try to hear from everyone by end-of-day Tuesday 2/28 or by
the time of our conference call (which Steve Ray is calling.) We
need to get the list compiled as quickly as we can, so we could
incorporate them into press releases, etc. (013)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
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