It may be difficult to get a large organization like Boeing to endorse
anything officially. There are strict rules about what can be said
publicly. (01)
It could take arbitrary amounts of time getting this through official
channels, agreeing on exact text etc. (02)
I'm not anxious to go through that exercise. (03)
Mike (04)
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter P. Yim [mailto:peter.yim@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 12:34 PM
To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
Subject: [uos-convene] UOS co-sponsorship (05)
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. (06)
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. (07)
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. (08)
I have compiled a draft list as follows (no particular order): (09)
# 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) (010)
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 (011)
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. (012)
I would need to know, from everyone: (013)
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. (014)
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.) (015)
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.) (016)
4. Other comments or suggestions regarding this matter, and more broadly
on how we can improve on the promotional effort. (017)
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. (018)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
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