OntologySummit2012

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= Ontology Summit 2012: Ontology for Big Systems =

This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD, and is the 7th in the series of 3-month open annual events, by and for the Ontology Community and their collaborators.

see: OntologySummit2012_Communique, our Website, and OntologySummit


 * Focus and Objectives
 * Process, Organization & Workspace
 * Calendar & Events
 * The Team
 * Join us!

What's New:

 * see this year's Communique here - http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2012/communique.html
 * Ref. OntologySummit2012_Communique
 * (endorsement solicitation is now closed; the following is retained here for the record only!) ... we solicit and welcome the endorsement of this Communique by members of the broader community of ontologists, system engineers and "big systems" and "big data" stakeholders
 * note that your endorsement will be made by you as an individual, and not as a representative of the organization(s) you are affiliated with
 * your endorsement shall apply to OntologySummit2012_Communique version 1.0 (as adopted at 14:28 EDT on 13-Apr-2012) plus any non-substantive edits which the co-lead editors have been empowered to make subsequently. (It's currently on v1.01 now)
 * this solicitation will be open for one month (and was closed as of end-of-day 12-May-2012; then extended for a week) ...  as such, endorsement is now closed; we thank each and every individual who had contributed to this historic document, or who had sent in his/her endorsement. 


 * 2012_04_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: review and follow-up action planning ("postmortem") session - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2012_04_26


 * 2012_04_13 - the OntologySummit2012_Communique was formally adopted by the community at the OntologySummit2012_Symposium
 * see this year's Communique here - http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2012/communique.html


 * 2012_04_12 - a new community Survey, developed by AmandaVizedom, MikeBennett and SimonSpero, is released
 * share your "Experiences with Ontology Quality and Big Systems" with the community by completing this open online survey questionnaire


 * 2012_04_12 & 13 - Thursday and Friday: OntologySummit2012 Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - Co-chairs: RamSriram & MichaelGruninger - OntologySummit2012_Symposium ( see also: OntologySummit2012/WorkshopRegistration )


 * 2012_04_10 - The (public facing) Ontology Summit 2012 website, developed by AliHashemi and ThomasGetgood, was launched - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2012/


 * Public review and input by way of "change requests" to the communique draft is solicited, especially from those in the Ontology Summit community, on this year's summit communique - see details at: OntologySummit2012_Communique/Draft ... review period ends on Tue 2012.04.10


 * 2012_04_05 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 Pre-symposium preparation &amp; Communique Review-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger, ToddSchneider &amp; AliHashemi - ConferenceCall_2012_04_05


 * 2012_03_30 - Friday: 8th OntologySummit2012 Organizing Committee Meeting - ~1.5-Hr. meeting starting 7:00am PDT / 10:00am EDT / 4:00pm CEST / 14:00 UTC - see details here! ... (organizing committee members only)


 * 2012_03_29 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-12 - "Organizing the 'Big' Communique" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & AliHashemi - Panelists: OntologySummit2012 chairs & champions - ConferenceCall_2012_03_29


 * 2012_03_22 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-11 - Track-1&2 - Chair: MatthewWest - "Big Systems: The ontology of System Components, and System Modelling Language Requirements" - Briefings from: NicolaGuarino, ChrisPartridge, DavidLeal (presented by MatthewWest) & HensonGraves - ConferenceCall_2012_03_22


 * 2012_03_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-10 - Track-3: "Challenge: Ontology and Big Data - III" - Co-chairs: MaryBrady & ErnieLucier - Panelists: TimFinin, KyoungsookKim, MikeFolk, MarioPaolucci, UrsulaKattner, EdinMuharemagic - ConferenceCall_2012_03_15


 * 2012_03_08 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-09 - Track-4: "Large-Scale Domain Applications - II: Biomedical, earth & environmental science & engineering" - Co-chairs: TrishWhetzel & SteveRay - Panelists: DavidPrice, MikeKellen, DamianGessler, BlazejBulka, IlyaZaslavsky, LinePouchard - ConferenceCall_2012_03_08


 * 2012_03_01 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-08 - Cross-Track-A2: "Ontology for Federation and Integration of Systems" - Co-champions: CoryCasanave & AnatolyLevenchuk - Panel Briefings from: TommiKarhela, AnatolyLevenchuk, DennisWisnosky, CoryCasanave - ConferenceCall_2012_03_01


 * 2012_02_23 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-07 - Cross-Track-A1: "Implementing Ontology Quality Measures in Big Systems Engineering" - Co-chairs: AmandaVizedom & MikeBennett - Panel Briefs from: AldoGangemi, JenniferWilliams, NicolaGuarino, AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2012_02_23


 * 2012_02_16 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-06 - Track-4: "Large-Scale Domain Applications - I: Energy, Government and Geography" - Co-chairs: SteveRay & TrishWhetzel - Panelists: - AndrewCrapo, KrzysztofJanowicz, BruceBauman, MillsDavis - ConferenceCall_2012_02_16


 * 2012_02_09 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-05 - Track-3: "Meeting Big Data Challenges through Ontology - I & II" - Co-chairs: ErnieLucier & MaryBrady - Panelists: BarrySmith, ChrisMusialek-JeanneHolm, BryanThompson-MikePersonick, JamesKirby - ConferenceCall_2012_02_09


 * 2012_02_02 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-04 - Track-1&2: "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - II : a response to the problem space and setting out the working program for this Summit Track" - Chair: HensonGraves - Panelists: LeoObrst, VictorAgroskin, ChrisPartridge, DavidLeal, ElisaKendall, joined by the panelists of session-03 - ConferenceCall_2012_02_02


 * 2012_01_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-03 - Track-1&2: "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - I : The Systems and Systems Engineering Problem Space" - Chair: MatthewWest - Panel Briefs: JackRing, AnatolyLevenchuk, GiancarloGuizzardi, MatthewWest - ConferenceCall_2012_01_26


 * 2012_01_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-02: "Ontology for Big Systems: What's In Scope?" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & NicolaGuarino - Panelists: MatthewWest, HensonGraves, CoryCasanave, ErnieLucier, MaryBrady, SteveRay, TrishWhetzel, AmandaVizedom, ToddSchneider, AliHashemi - ConferenceCall_2012_01_19


 * 2012_01_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: "Ontology for Big Systems" - Launch Event - Co-chairs: NicolaGuarino & LeoObrst - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12


 * 2011_12_08 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 (Pre-Launch) Community Input & Planning Session - co-chairs: SteveRay & PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2011_12_08 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!

= Ontology Summit 2012 Theme: "Ontology for Big Systems" =

Description, Goals & Objectives:
This year's Ontology Summit is titled "Ontology for Big Systems" and seeks to explore, identify and articulate how ontological methods can bring value to the various disciplines required to engineer a "big system." The term "big system" is intended to cover a large scope that includes many of the terms encountered in the media such as big data, complex techno-socio-economic systems, intelligent or smart systems, cloud computing, netcentricity and collective intelligence. Established disciplines that fall within the summit scope include (but not limited to) systems engineering, software engineering, information systems modelling, and data mining.

The principal goal of the summit is to bring together and foster collaboration between the ontology community, systems community, and stakeholders of some of the "big systems." Together, the summit participants will exchange ideas on how ontological analysis and ontology engineering might make a difference, when applied in these "big systems." We will aim towards producing a series of recommendations describing how ontologies can create an impact; as well as providing illustrations where these techniques have been, or could be, applied in domains such as bioinformatics, electronic health records, intelligence, the smart electrical grid, manufacturing and supply chains, earth and environmental, e-science, cyberphysical systems and e-government. As is traditional with the Ontology Summit series, the results will be captured in the form of a communique, with expanded supporting material provided on the web.

Process & Deliverables:
This is our 7th annual OntologySummit season. Similar to our last 6 summits, this OntologySummit will comprise of 3 months of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), and culminate in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium held on April 12 & 13, 2012 at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the greater Washington, DC Area (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA to be exact) during which we, among other things, will distill our thoughts into a collaboratively developed communique.

Co-chairs, Tracks and Champions:

 * Summit General Co-chairs ... Dr. NicolaGuarino & Dr. LeoObrst


 * Symposium Co-chairs ... Dr. RamSriram & Professor MichaelGruninger


 * Track-1&2: Ontology for Big Systems and Systems Engineering - Co-Champions: MatthewWest, HensonGraves
 * Track-3: Challenge: Ontology and Big Data - Co-Champions: ErnieLucier, MaryBrady
 * Track-4: Large-Scale Domain Applications - Co-Champions: SteveRay, TrishWhetzel
 * Cross-Track-A1: Ontology Quality and Large-Scale Systems - Co-champions: AmandaVizedom, MikeBennett
 * Cross-Track-A2: Ontology for Federation and Integration of Systems - Co-champions: CoryCasanave, AnatolyLevenchuk


 * Communique Co-Lead Editors - ToddSchneider, AliHashemi
 * Co-editors: all other champions


 * Public Relations - champion: AliHashemi

Research / Study - Workspaces:

 * Track-1&2: Ontology for Big Systems and Systems Engineering
 * OntologySummit2012_BigSystemsEngineering_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2012_BigSystemsEngineering_Synthesis (maintained by MatthewWest, HensonGraves)


 * Track-3: Challenge: Ontology and Big Data
 * OntologySummit2012_BigDataChallenge_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2012_BigDataChallenge_Synthesis (maintained by ErnieLucier, MaryBrady)


 * Track-4: Large-scale Domain Applications
 * OntologySummit2012_Applications_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2012_Applications_Synthesis (maintained by SteveRay, TrishWhetzel)


 * Cross-Track-A1: Ontology Quality and Large-Scale Systems
 * OntologySummit2012_Quality_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2012_Quality_Synthesis (maintained by AmandaVizedom, MikeBennett)
 * Survey
 * share your "Experiences with Ontology Quality and Big Systems" with the community by completing this open online survey questionnaire


 * Cross-Track-A2: Ontology for Federation and Integration of Systems
 * OntologySummit2012_SystemsFederationIntegration_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2012_SystemsFederationIntegration_Synthesis (maintained by AnatolyLevenchuk, CoryCasanave)


 * Recommended Reading
 * List of community-suggested OntologySummit2012_RecommendedReading


 * Summit Communique
 * OntologySummit2012_Communique/Draft (maintained by the communique co-editors)
 * OntologySummit2012_Communique (maintained by the co-lead editors)


 * Online Forum - active discussion is also carried on over the [ ontology-summit ] mailing list - see details here
 * When starting a new thread on the list, please prefix the subject line with one of the following track labels, and make sure message content are on topic (i.e. that the discussion/message relates well to the subject line):
 * (for Track-1&2 discussion)  [BigSystems and SE] 
 * (for Track-3 discussion)  [BigDataChallenge] 
 * (for Track-4 discussion)  [Applications] 
 * (for X-Track-A1 discussion) [Quality]
 * (for X-Track-A2 discussion)  [SystemsFederationIntegration]  ... and,
 * a combination like  [Applications-Quality] 
 * no prefix for general or over-arching issues, or if they don't belong to any particular discussion track;
 * ... also prefix with "[OT]" if the post is off-topic


 * Shared-file workspace (document repository) at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2012/
 * this space is accessible via a webdav client ... Ref. details here ... contact  if you have a question


 * Public Relations workspace: (maintained by AliHashemi)
 * OntologySummit2012_MediaKit/Draft
 * OntologySummit2012_MediaKit


 * Organizing Committee workspace - see: OntologySummit2012/GettingOrganized
 * how are we moving the program forward this year? - see: /Process
 * Ideas and suggestions (on how to better organize the effort) - see: /Suggestions

The Team

 * Co-organizers:
 * Ontolog
 * NIST
 * NCOR
 * NCBO
 * IAOA
 * NCO_NITRD


 * Organizing Committee:
 * AliHashemi
 * AmandaVizedom
 * AnatolyLevenchuk
 * BarrySmith
 * CoryCasanave
 * ElisaKendall
 * EricChan
 * ErnieLucier
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * GeorgeStrawn
 * HensonGraves
 * JohnBateman
 * KenAllgood
 * LeoObrst (Co-chair)
 * MarkLuker
 * MarkMusen
 * MatthewWest
 * MichaelGruninger
 * MikeBennett
 * NancyWiegand
 * NicolaGuarino (Co-chair)
 * PeterYim
 * RamSriram
 * SteveRay (Chair Emeritus)
 * ToddSchneider
 * TrishWhetzel


 * Advisory Committee: ...(by invitation of the Organizing Committee)
 * AlanRuttenberg
 * AldenDima
 * AldoGangemi
 * AmandaVizedom
 * AnthonyCohn
 * AntonyGalton
 * ArturoSanchez
 * AsumanDogac
 * BarrySmith
 * BillMcCarthy
 * BobSmith
 * BrianHaugh
 * CecilLynch
 * ChrisChute
 * ChrisPartridge
 * ChrisWelty
 * CitaFurlani
 * ConradBock
 * DavidLeal
 * DavidPrice
 * DeborahMacPherson
 * DeborahMcGuinness
 * DeniseBedford
 * DennisWisnosky
 * DougLenat
 * DuaneNickull
 * ElisaKendall
 * ElizabethFlorescu
 * EnricoMotta
 * ErnieLucier
 * EvanWallace
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * GaryBergCross
 * GeorgeStrawn
 * GeorgeThomas
 * GiancarloGuizzardi
 * HensonGraves
 * HowardMason
 * IanHorrocks
 * IvanHerman
 * JamieClark
 * JeanneHolm
 * JimDisbrow
 * JimSchoening
 * JimSpohrer
 * JohnBateman
 * JohnSowa
 * KatherineGoodier
 * KathyLaskey
 * KenBaclawski
 * KenLaskey
 * KurtConrad
 * LaureVieu
 * LaurentLiscia
 * LeoObrst
 * MarciaZeng
 * MarkCarlisle
 * MarkGreaves
 * MarkLuker
 * MarkMusen
 * MaryBrady
 * MartinHepp
 * MatthewWest
 * MichaelGruninger
 * MichaelUschold
 * MichelleRaymond
 * MikeBennett
 * MikeDean
 * MillsDavis
 * NicolaGuarino
 * PatHayes
 * PauloCosta
 * PeterBenson
 * PeterBrown
 * PeterHaase
 * PeterYim
 * RalphHodgson
 * RamSriram
 * RaviSharma
 * RexBrooks
 * RichardMarkSoley
 * RickMurphy
 * RiichiroMizoguchi
 * RudiStuder
 * SimonFrechette
 * StefanDecker
 * StefanoBorgo
 * SteveRay
 * TaniaTudorache
 * TerryJanssen
 * TimFinin
 * TimMcGrath
 * ToddSchneider


 * Co-Sponsors: ... ('Co-sponsors' are organizations who are providing technical or funding support, and/or endorsing the purpose (i.e. the objectives) of this Ontology Summit)
 * ( ... see invitation from the OntologySummit2012 Organizing Committee)
 * Accuracy&Aesthetics (DeborahMacPherson)
 * Uberity Systems (DuaneNickull)
 * Alion Science & Technology (LowellVizenor, DanielMekonnen, LaRonHughes)
 * The Applied Ontology journal (NicolaGuarino & MarkMusen)
 * (US) Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence (JamesSchoening)
 * Artifact Software (Ron Wheeler)
 * Bremen Ontology Research Group at Bremen University, supported by the faculties of Informatics and Linguistics and the Collaborative Research Center for Spatial Cognition (JohnBateman & TillMossakowski)
 * Department of Library and information Studies, University at Buffalo (DagobertSoergel)
 * Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (BarrySmith)
 * CAESAR Systems Limited (DavidLeal)
 * Cannon Design (DeborahMacPherson)
 * CIM3 (PeterYim)
 * ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory of Applied Ontology (Trento, Italy) (NicolaGuarino)
 * Cycorp (DougLenat)
 * Deloitte (KenAllgood)
 * DEL REY Systems & Technology (JeffAbbott, BernardUlozas)
 * DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute (StefanDecker)
 * ECCMA - Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (PeterBenson)
 * EDM Council (MikeBennett)
 * EIS - EIS Encyclopedic Systems Ltd (EU) & Entsiklopedicheskiye Intellektualniye Systemy (RU) (AzamatAbdoullaev)
 * Eurostep (NigelShaw, DavidPrice)
 * Franz (JansAasman, CraigNorvell)
 * C4I Center, George Mason University (KathrynLaskey)
 * GTS, S.A. (ArturoSanchez)
 * IBM Research (ChrisWelty)
 * Information Junction (MatthewWest)
 * IRSC - Integrated Response Services Consortium (RexBrooks)
 * The Intellegere Foundation (PeteNielsen)
 * IAOA - The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (NicolaGuarino, JohnBateman, PeterYim)
 * ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 N 1498 - ISO 24707 Common Logic (CL) Working Group (HarryDelugach (editor), PatHayes, ChrisMenzel, JohnSowa, MurrayAltheim, ElisaKendall, et al.)
 * ISO TC 184/SC4 (HowardMason, DavidPrice, DavidLeal)
 * ISO TC 184 SC 4 JWG8 - the ISO working group that developed the ISO 18629 Process Specification Language (PSL) standard (MichaelGruninger)
 * KMi - Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK (EnricoMotta)
 * Mathet Consulting (MatthewHettinger)
 * The Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University (BillMcCarthy)
 * The Millennium Project (JerryGlenn, TedGordon & ElizabethFlorescu)
 * L-3 Communications (KatherineGoodier)
 * MITRE (LeoObrst)
 * Model Driven Solutions, a division of Data Access Technologies (CoryCasanave)
 * NCBO - (US) National Center for Biomedical Ontology (MarkMusen)
 * NCOR - (US) National Center for Ontological Research (BarrySmith & MarkMusen)
 * The [[NeOn] project] (EnricoMotta, AldoGangemi)
 * NIST - (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology (RamSriram, MaryBrady)
 * NLM, NIH - (US) National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health (OlivierBodenreider)
 * The College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University (LarryFinkelstein, KenBaclawski)
 * OAGi - Open Applications Group (DavidConnelly)
 * OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (LaurentLiscia, PeterBrown, JamieClark, et al.)
 * OASIS Integrated Collaboration Object Model for Interoperable Collaboration Services (ICOM) Technical Committee (EricChan)
 * OASIS Semantic Support for Electronic Business Document Interoperability (SET) Technical Committee (AsumanDogac)
 * OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee (JonBosak & TimMcGrath)
 * OMG - Object Management Group (RichardMarkSoley, ElisaKendall, EvanWallace)
 * OntoAge (BobbinTeegarden)
 * Ontolog - a.k.a. Ontolog Forum (PeterYim, LeoObrst, KurtConrad)
 * OntoPilot (JackRing)
 * Pensive nv/sa (PeterBrown)
 * PK Technologies (PavithraKenjige)
 * POSC Caesar (NilsSandsmark)
 * Raytheon BBN (MikeDean)
 * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation (Joanne Luciano)
 * RS Enterprises (RaviSharma)
 * The Sagebrush Group (KurtConrad)
 * Thematix Partners (ElisaKendall)
 * Semantic Arts (MichaelUschold, DaveMcComb)
 * SemantixLab (KenAllgood)
 * SRI International (VinayChaudhri)
 * Starbourne Communications Design (RexBrooks)
 * Steve Ray Consulting (SteveRay)
 * The Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) (MarkMusen)
 * STI International (RudiStuder)
 * University of Maryland, Baltimore County (TimFinin)
 * University of Toronto (MichaelGruninger)
 * Wind River Consulting LLC (AmandaVizedom, Aaron Cooper)
 * W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (IvanHerman & Ian Jacobs)

You are cordially invited to join us!

 * Like all activities Ontolog has been hosting, this is open to everyone.
 * Do join us if you have interest in the theme and objectives of this endeavor and would like to participate in, or follow the progress of the discourse
 * Be aware that all activities may (probably will) be recorded and served on an open public archive
 * Do note that our open IPR Policy will apply (unless otherwise waived in writing.)


 * specific individuals who may be interested include (but not limit to):
 * members of ontology communities
 * members of systems (systems engineering, software engineering, etc.) communities
 * stakeholders of potential user organizations
 * potential funders of ontology R&D and investors in ontological engineering work
 * people in policy, industry, research, academia and the web working on sharing knowledge, semantic interoperability, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence ... who are engaged in the research, development, engineering and implementation of these subject matters


 * Please join us in the "Ontology Summit 2012" virtual discourse (as an OntologySummit participant),
 * If you are already an Ontolog Member:
 * to participate in the "Ontology Summit 2012" virtual discourse, please subscribe to the [ontology-summit] forum (the convener's mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
 * to browse the forum archives, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/
 * if you run into any problem, please send your subscription request directly to 
 * If you are not already an Ontolog Member, and is interested to join the community:
 * please take a look at the details in our "Membership" section on the Ontolog WikiHomePage.
 * if you have additional questions or have run into any problem, please email 

Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace

 * Mailing List Discussion Archives:
 * [ontology-summit] - Ontology Summit 2012 participants' discussion Archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/ (open)
 * to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [ontology-summit] forum (the summit participants' mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
 * anyone responding to the RSVP for any of the summit events will be taken as having expressed interest to participate, and will be subscribed to this [ontology-summit] mailing list (write  to let him know, if that is not the case.)
 * [ontology-summit-org] - Ontology Summit 2012 Organizing Committee List Archives - http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/ (password protected)


 * Shared-File Workspace:
 * All summit participants - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2012/ (open)
 * Organizing committee - http://interop.cim3.net/file/work/ontology-summit-org/OntologySummit2012/ (password protected)


 * Key [ Discussion Pages] on the wiki

Event Calendar: Open Sessions

 * 2012_01_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: "Ontology for Big Systems" - Launch Event - Co-chairs: NicolaGuarino & LeoObrst - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12
 * 2012_01_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-02: "Ontology for Big Systems: What's In Scope?" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2012_01_19
 * 2012_01_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-03 - Track-1&2: "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - I : The Systems and Systems Engineering Problem Space" - Chair: MatthewWest - Panel Briefs: JackRing, AnatolyLevenchuk, GiancarloGuizzardi, MatthewWest - ConferenceCall_2012_01_26
 * 2012_02_02 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-04 - Track-1&2: "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - II : a response to the problem space and setting out the working program for this Summit Track" - Chair: HensonGraves - Panelists: LeoObrst, VictorAgroskin, ChrisPartridge, DavidLeal, ElisaKendall, joined by the panelists of session-03 - ConferenceCall_2012_02_02
 * 2012_02_09 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-05 - Track-3: "Meeting Big Data Challenges through Ontology - I & II" - Co-chairs: ErnieLucier & MaryBrady - Panelists: BarrySmith, ChrisMusialek-JeanneHolm, BryanThompson-MikePersonick, JamesKirby - ConferenceCall_2012_02_09
 * 2012_02_16 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-06 - Track-4: "Large-Scale Domain Applications¨CI: Energy, Government and Geography" - Co-chairs: SteveRay & TrishWhetzel - Panelists: - AndrewCrapo, KrzysztofJanowicz, BruceBauman, MillsDavis - ConferenceCall_2012_02_16
 * 2012_02_23 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-07 - Cross-Track-A1: "Implementing Ontology Quality Measures in Big Systems Engineering" - Co-chairs: AmandaVizedom & MikeBennett - Panel Briefs from: AldoGangemi, JenniferWilliams, NicolaGuarino, AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2012_02_23
 * 2012_03_01 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-08 - Cross-Track-A2: "Ontology for Federation and Integration of Systems" - Co-champions: CoryCasanave & AnatolyLevenchuk - Panel Briefings from: TommiKarhela, AnatolyLevenchuk, DennisWisnosky, CoryCasanave - ConferenceCall_2012_03_01
 * 2012_03_08 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-09 - Track-4: "Large-Scale Domain Applications¨CII: Biomedical, earth & environmental science & engineering" - Co-chairs: TrishWhetzel & SteveRay - Panelists: DavidPrice, MikeKellen, DamianGessler, BlazejBulka, IlyaZaslavsky, LinePouchard - ConferenceCall_2012_03_08
 * 2012_03_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-10 - Track-3: "Challenge: Ontology and Big Data - III" - Co-chairs: MaryBrady &amp; ErnieLucier - Panelists: TimFinin, KyoungsookKim, MikeFolk, MarioPaolucci, UrsulaKattner, EdinMuharemagic - ConferenceCall_2012_03_15
 * 2012_03_22 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-11 - Track-1&amp;2 - Chair: MatthewWest - "Big Systems: The ontology of System Components, and System Modelling Language Requirements" - Briefings from: NicolaGuarino, ChrisPartridge, DavidLeal (presented by MatthewWest) &amp; HensonGraves - ConferenceCall_2012_03_22
 * 2012_03_29 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-12 - "Organizing the 'Big' Communique" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider &amp; AliHashemi - Panelists: OntologySummit2012 chairs &amp; champions - ConferenceCall_2012_03_29
 * 2012_04_05 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 Pre-symposium preparation &amp; Communique Review-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger, ToddSchneider &amp; AliHashemi - ConferenceCall_2012_04_05
 * 2012_04_12 &amp; 13 - Thursday and Friday: OntologySummit2012 Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - Co-chairs: RamSriram &amp; MichaelGruninger - OntologySummit2012_Symposium ( see also: OntologySummit2012/WorkshopRegistration )
 * 2012_04_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: review and follow-up action planning ("postmortem") session - Co-chairs: LeoObrst, RamSriram &amp; MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2012_04_26


 * Virtual Event Time-slot (weekly on Thursdays between Jan-12 and April-5, 2012):
 * e.g. the Launch Event is on Thu 2012.01.12, a 2-Hour session starting at: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 5:30pm GMT / 17:30 UTC (ref. worldclock)
 * ALL virtual sessions for this summit will be scheduled on this same Thursday time-slot.

Event Archives:

 * see above
 * OntologySummit2012 Kick-off - 2012_01_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: "Ontology for Big Systems" - Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12
 * Pre-launch brainstorm session - 2011_12_08 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 (Pre-Launch) Community Input & Planning Session - co-chairs: SteveRay & PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2011_12_08
 * OntologySummit2011 follow-up session - including ideas for OntologySummit2012 - 2011.05.19  (ref.)

OntologySummit2012_Symposium - 12 & 13-April-2012 - at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

 * 2012_04_12 & 13 - Thursday and Friday: OntologySummit2012 Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - Co-chairs: RamSriram & MichaelGruninger - OntologySummit2012_Symposium ( see also: OntologySummit2012/WorkshopRegistration )

Organizing Committee Sessions

 * Organizing Committee meetings - see: OntologySummit2012/GettingOrganized
 * 1st Organizing Committee meeting - Fri 2011.01.06
 * Third co-organizers meeting - planning - 2011.12.02
 * Second co-organizers meeting - planning - 2011.12.11
 * First co-organizers meeting - strategy - 2011.10.13

Ontology Summit 2012 in the News, Blogosphere & Literature:

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 * 2012.04.17 - "Say Ontology and Win $100" by TomTinsley on Self-Service Information Technology - http://deadlinesandducttape.com/blog/2012/04/17/say-ontology-and-win-100/


 * 2012.04 - "Current State of ontology in engineering sytstems" by HensonGraves and MatthewWest for the OMG Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Initiative - http://www.omgwiki.org/MBSE/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=mbse:oat:graves-current-state-ontology_.pdf


 * 2012.04 - "Ontology and Systems Engineering" by HensonGraves and JackRing, on Vol 15 Issue 1 (Apr-2012) of the INCOSE "Insight" Newsletter - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/reference/OntologySummit2012/INCOSE-Insight_OntologySummit2012-article--HensonGraves-JackRing_Apr-2012.pdf


 * 2012.03.02 - "Ontology-Based Systems Federation" and a write-up on the OntologySummit process, by AnatolyLevenchuk on his Anatoly Levenchuk's Runglish Blog - http://levenchuk.com/2012/03/02/ontology-based-systems-federation/


 * 2012.02.26 - "Ontology Summit 2012 -- &#1089;&#1077;&#1089;&#1089;&#1080;&#1103; &#1087;&#1086; &#1092;&#1077;&#1076;&#1077;&#1088;&#1072;&#1094;&#1080;&#1080; &#1080; &#1080;&#1085;&#1090;&#1077;&#1075;&#1088;&#1072;&#1094;&#1080;&#1080; &#1089;&#1080;&#1089;&#1090;&#1077;&#1084;" [in Russian]  ("Ontology Summit 2012 - session on Federation and Integration of Systems") - on AnatolyLevenchuk's Livejournal (blog) - see: http://ailev.livejournal.com/983827.html ... and (in English) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2012/Process#nid35K2


 * 2012.02.23 - Blogging about Ontology Summit 2012 session-07: "Implementing Ontology Quality Measures in Big Systems Engineering" by AmandaVizedom by Google+ - see: https://plus.google.com/114012160944143852021/posts/4aDxnpggd6c


 * 2012.01.31 - "Ontology Summit 2012: Evento Virtual c/ alguns dos principais nomes da comunidade internacional e Gratuito!" [in Portuguese]  - on GiancarloGuizzardi's "Idéias & Caraminholas" blog - see: http://ideiasecaraminholas.blogspot.com/2012/01/ontology-summit-2012-evento-virtual-c.html


 * 2012.01.10 & 12 - AmandaVizedom & EdDodds both blogged about the OntologySummit2012 Launch Event of Jan-12 on Google+ - see, respectively: https://plus.google.com/114012160944143852021/posts/Yu3LsgXc9BY & https://plus.google.com/116967336877666489284/posts/gRuDBFYHB1N


 * Please use " #OntologySummit2012 " or "#ontologysummit2012" (case insensitive) as twitter hashtag (elsewhere, too)


 * shortened url for the OntologySummit2011 homepage (i.e. this page):
 * http://bit.ly/OntologySummit2012
 * http://goo.gl/sdOWi .. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2012/goo-gl-sdOWi-qr.png .. 

Additional Resources

 * Homepage of OntologySummit2011, Making the Case for Ontology - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011
 * Homepage of OntologySummit2010, Creating the Ontologists of the Future - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010
 * Homepage of OntologySummit2009, Toward Ontology-based Standards - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009
 * Homepage of OntologySummit2008, Toward an Open Ontology Repository - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008
 * Homepage of OntologySummit2007, Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007
 * Homepage of UpperOntologySummit (2006) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit

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