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Re: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship

To: "Smith, Barry" <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Upper Ontology Summit convention <uos-convene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:17:16 -0800
Message-id: <4402531C.6040708@xxxxxxxx>
Thanks, Barry.    (01)

... Updated accordingly - see: 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit#nidIOJ    (02)

Regards.  =ppy
--    (03)


Smith, Barry wrote Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:37:24 -0500:
> and for ECOR put Nicola Guarino, who is taking over from Werner and myself
> BS    (04)


> At 03:40 PM 2/26/2006, you wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> I would spell out NCOR and ECOR. I would also add NIST.
>>
>> Leo
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [ mailto:uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter P. Yim
>> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 3:34 PM
>> To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
>> Subject: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I have compiled a draft list as follows (no particular order):
>>
>> # 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)
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> I would need to know, from everyone:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> 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.)
>>
>> 4. Other comments or suggestions regarding this matter, and more
>> broadly on how we can improve on the promotional effort.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
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