Compliments for this achievement! (01)
I think that, eventually, some Institution should take on
the job to maintain the Common Standard as the Custodian of the
General Public. (02)
Roberto Bordogna. (03)
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 21:10, Cassidy, Patrick J. wrote:
> ONTACWG members:
> A meeting will be held from 1 to 5 PM on March 15th at the NIST in
> Gaithersburg, Maryland at which the custodians (developers and
> maintainers) of the most widely used upper ontologies will discuss how
> their different top-level ontologies might be related to each other.
> As this is closely related to the COSMO working group effort, and
> might, if successful, supersede the COSMO effort, it is a meeting that
> should be of interest to many of our members. The meeting will be
> accessible by VTC and teleconference for those who will not be able to
> attend in person.
>
> Pat
>
> Patrick Cassidy
> MITRE Corporation
> 260 Industrial Way
> Eatontown, NJ 07724
> Mail Stop: MNJE
> Phone: 732-578-6340
> Cell: 908-565-4053
> Fax: 732-578-6012
> Email: pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx
>
> =====================================================================
>
> Apologies for cross-postings, duplicate announcements.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> *ANNOUNCEMENT: Upper Ontology Summit, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, March 15,
> 2006*
>
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
>
>
> PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL HOTEL RATE CUTOFF OF FEB. 25, BELOW.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> On March 15, 2006 the Ontolog Forum [1], the United States National
> Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [5] and the Semantic
> Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) [2], along with its two
> sub-groups: the Ontology and Taxonomy Coordination Working Group
> (ONTAC-WG) [3] and the Common Semantic Model Working Group COSMO-WG)
> [4] are organizing an Upper Ontology Summit (UOS) [7]. This UOS will be
> a full-day workshop / panel discussion event to be held at NIST in
> Gaithersburg, MD, hosted by Dr. Steven Ray of NIST. The workshop will
> focus on developing a method and the resources to relate existing upper
> ontologies to each other, and to share the information on this very
> important effort with the public.
>
> We are especially pleased that we are finally able to bring together
> all the key public top-level ontology creators /
> custodians, including OpenCyc, the Standard Upper Merged Ontology
> (SUMO), the Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive
> Engineering (DOLCE), DOLCE Description & Situation extension
> (DOLCE-D&S), Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), ISO15926, and the Process
> Specification Language (PSL), to the same workshop to consider how to
> interrelate those ontologies in such a way as to provide a freely
> available common ontology that has sufficient detail to precisely
> specify meanings of terms and concepts in domain ontologies and which
> is compatible with each of the starting upper ontologies.
>
> *PANELISTS/SPEAKERS*:
>
> Dr. John Bateman - Spatial Cognition
> Dr. Patrick Cassidy (SICoP / ONTAC, MITRE, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Aldo Gangemi - DOLCE-D&S (Description & Situation extensions)
> Dr. Michael Gruninger - PSL / ISO 18629
> Dr. Nicola Guarino - DOLCE
> Dr. Douglas Lenat - OpenCyc
> Dr. Brand Niemann (Session Chair, SICoP, EPA, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog, MITRE, UOS-org-comm)
> Mr. Adam Pease - SUMO
> Dr. Steven Ray (Meeting Chair, NIST, UOS-org-comm)
> Dr. Barry Smith - BFO (remote, from Europe),
> with Dr. Werner Ceusters (ECOR)
> Dr. Matthew West - ISO 15926-2
>
> More details (developing) on this Upper Ontology Summit event is
> available at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
>
>
> *DATE/VENUE DETAILS*:
>
> Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
>
> 9 am ~ 12 noon EST - "Upper Ontology Application Dialog"
> Session Chair: Dr. Brand Niemann, EPA & SICoP Chair
> In addition to the panelists, organizers, and key participants,
> early adopters, potential users and potential funders of ontology
> development will be invited to discuss mutual concerns.
>
> 1 pm ~ 5 pm EST - The "Upper Ontology Summit" Panel Session
> Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray, NIST
> The purpose of this panel is to bring together those who
> recognize the value of open upper ontologies, and in particular,
> the custodians (developers or maintainers) of the public versions
> of existing upper ontologies to find a way to interrelate those
> ontologies in such a way as to provide a freely available common
> ontology that has sufficient detail to precisely specify meanings
> of terms and concepts in domain ontologies and which is
> compatible with each of the starting upper ontologies. Key
> drivers and benefits of such endeavor will be explored in detail.
> This session is open to the public.
>
> The sessions are accessible both on-site at NIST (Gaithersburg,
> Maryland, USA) as well as through remote dial in.
>
> More details regarding on-site attendance is available at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogi
> stics
>
> Dial-in information will be posted closer to the time of the
> event. (Please be on the look out for further announcements.)
>
> The entire Upper Ontology Summit session will be recorded and
> made available as open content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR
> policy (see:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
>
> We look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass
> this announcement along to those who might be interested to
> participate and contribute to the discussion. All are welcomed.
>
>
> *REGISTRATION*: [IMPORTANT DATES, please note!]
>
> On-site attendees *must register with NIST* on/before Monday,
> March 6, 2006 to enter their facilities. Online registration is
> available at:
> https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/conf_ext.cfm?conf_id=1536
> (No on-site registration will be accepted. See also:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogi
> stics#nidK7W)
>
> Note also that the special hotel rates for rooms blocked off for
> this event will only apply if you make your reservation on/before
> this Friday, Feb. 25, 2006. See details at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogi
> stics#nidK81
>
> Remote attendees should e-mail Peter Yim at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
> offline on/before Saturday, March 11, 2006.
>
>
> For and on behalf of the UOS
> Organizing Committee,
>
> Patrick Cassidy
> Ontolog Forum, co-convener
>
> Members of the UOS Organizing Committee:
> Patrick Cassidy (SICoP/ONTAC, Mitre)
> Kurt Conrad (Ontolog, Sagebrush)
> Brand Niemann (SICoP, EPA)
> Leo Obrst (Ontolog, Mitre)
> Steven Ray (NIST)
> Dagobert Soergel (SICoP/COSMO, UMD)
> Peter Yim (Ontolog, CIM3)
>
>
> P.S. This Upper Ontology Summit is being organized as part of
> the NIST's Interoperability Week event [6]. Members of the
> community are invited and encouraged to participate in other
> meetings that are being held at the NIST the same week. Please
> refer to details at:
> http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm
>
>
> References:
>
> [1] Ontolog - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB
>
> [2] SICoP - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP#nid2YPR
>
> [3] ONTAC-WG -
> http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG#ni
> d2QJO
>
> [4] COSMO-WG - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CosmoWG#nid306M
>
> [5] NIST - http://nist.gov
>
> [6] NIST Interoperability Week -
> http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/index.htm
>
> [7] Upper Ontology Summit -
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit
>
>
>
>
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