OntologWiki: Relevant Events Of Interest 2008

Calendar of Relevant Open Events in 2008 that may be of Professional Interest to the Ontolog Community (PAO)

  Ontolog members are invited to post event information on open events that meet the subject criteria. 
  Ontolog members: please post if you are involved (organizing, presenting) at the event. 
  Please do not post information on 'member-only' or 'private' events.
  A short entry, in reverse chronological order (please refer to other entries as examples) should be made, 
  please make sure you include a link pointing to the event website (where more details can be found).
  Please also specify whether the event is 'Free' (free-of-charge) or Fee-based ('$': below US$800; '$$': US$800 or above)

  The Ontolog co-conveners reserve the right to remove any entry that they deem inappropriate. =ppy/2006.08.03 T    (PAP)

Year 2009 Events - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2009 (1L4P)

Q4/2008 (PAQ)

Dec. 11, 2008 - Thursday 7pm The Washington Semantic Web Meetup - Vocabulary Round-Up and Semantic Bash-Up. Reyes+Davis, 923 F Street, NW, Suite 302, Washington, DC 20004 (1PQ0)

Oct. 31 ~ Nov. 3, 2008, Wednesday~Saturday - FOIS 2008, the 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - at Saarbrücken, Germany - ($) - see: http://fois08.dfki.de/joomla/ (1ACC)

October 26~30, 2008, Friday~Tuesday - ISWC 2008, the 7th Inernational Semantic Web Conference - at Karlsruhe, Germany - ($) - see: http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ (1ACD)
- Semantic Wiki BOF (birds-of-a-feather) informal meeting at ISWC-2008 - Sunday 26-Oct-2008 - see: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SemWiki_Meeting_ISWC_2008 (1NRK)

Q3/2008 (PAR)

September 29 - October 3, 2008 (Monday ~ Friday) - EKAW 2008: "Knowledge Patterns" - 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - at Acitrezza, Catania, Italy - ($) - see: http://ekaw2008.inrialpes.fr/ (1DOG)

September 11, Thursday, 2008 -- - NEW DIMENSIONS IN KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS, Sponsored by CENDI and the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Working Group, Hosted by The World Bank, Washington, DC. Registration fee $100, by Sept.3. The workshop will focus on advances in terminology systems and services. It will cover aspects such as interoperability, mapping, collaborative KOS development, metadata for terminology and terminology resources, registries and standards. Speakers will represent government, academic and commercial organizations from a variety of disciplines including agriculture, the environment and biomedicine. The registration form, a preliminary program and additional information are available at CINDI event site (1LA5)

July 28 - August 1, 2008 - ESAS 2008: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland. Main theme: Applying Semantic Web Technologies in Research and Development of Software Agents, Mobile Agents and Multi-Agent Systems towards INTEGRATING THE DISTRIBUTED WORLDS. Paper submission deadline is March 17, 2008 (final extension). Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press - ($) - see: Registration menu tab at http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2008/ (195Z)

June 25, 2008, Wednesday - "DESI II - Second International Workshop on Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings" - at London, UK - ($) - see: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Attfield/desi/ (1AC8)

Q2/2008 (PAS)

April 28~30, 2008 - NIST Interoperability Week - Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - (Free) - url: (coming!) (19AO)
- April 28~29, 2008, Monday & Tuesday - OntologySummit2008 Face-to-face Workshop, as part of the "NIST Interoperability Week" program - (Free) - url: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008#nid1BRH (1AC9)
- April 30, 2008. Wednesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #72, as part of the "NIST Interoperability Week" program - "Exploring the Identity Management Landscape for Convergence and Risk Mitigation in Open Cyberinfrastructure" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/ExploringIdentityManagementLandscapeInNationalPreparednessAndResponseScenarios_2008_04_30 (1ACA)

April 28~29, 2008 - Search Engine Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - This annual meeting provides a forum and point-of-reference for all those interested in the intricacies of Search and Retrieval. The meeting draws those with a professional interest in search engines -- such as search engine designers and developers -- and those interested in applying search engines in their own professional environments. Presentations are given sequentially; there are no parallel sessions or parallel presentations at this meeting. - ($$) - see: http://infonortics.com/searchengines/sh08/08pro.html (1A6V)

April 12~13, 2008 - A two-day intensive training course in biomedical ontology will be held in Buffalo, New York, USA, under the auspices of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. The course will provide an introductory survey of methods and an overview of current developments and best practices in ontology in the life sciences. No prior knowledge of ontology is presupposed. All sessions will be highly interactive and designed to be of interest to those with a background in medicine or biology. - ($) - see: http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Introduction_to_Biomedical_Ontologies (19AM)

Q1/2008 (PAT)

March 27, 2008, Thursday - The Knowledge Congress LIVE Teleconference: "The New E-Discovery Snafu: Failures, Disputes, & Skyrocketing Legal Costs" - ($) - see: http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2008_ediscovery.html (19HV)

March 18, 2008, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #71, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Best Practices in Emerging Technology Evaluation" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop (1ACB)