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= The Ontolog Community =

Welcome to our "open dialog in ontology"! ... (ref. Ontolog in one slide)

ONTOLOG (a.k.a. "Ontolog Forum") is an open, international, virtual community of practice devoted to advancing the field of ontology, ontological engineering and semantic technology, and advocating their adoption into mainstream applications and international standards.

If you want to find out "What is an ontology?", this would be a good start, ... joining us would help too!

News & Announcements
''All Ontolog events are open. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have something to contribute is welcome to join us. Kindly refer to individual event details on their respective session pages (which you can link to) below. Please make sure you are aware of our IPR policy that is applicable, though, before participating.''


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 * went online on 2013_04_16 - our (public facing) Ontology Summit 2013 Website is now up! - http://ontolog.cim3.net/OntologySummit/2013/


 * Registration for the OntologySummit2013_Symposium at NIST is now open - Thu & Fri May 2~3, 2013 (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)
 * For On-site Attendees: see registration details here (click on the "CONFERENCE REGISTRATION" link to register.) Registration is mandatory, and the deadline is 22-Apr-2013 ... (details)
 * For Remote Attendees: see registration details here


 * the OntologySummit2013 Survey on "Software Support for Ontology Quality and Fitness" is now open - anyone who develops or operates a related software tool/system/environment is cordially invited to complete this survey (on/before Tue 2013.04.23), to help us, as a community, to better understand the state-of-the-art on software capabilities available to assess and promote the quality and fitness of ontologies - the online survey questionnaire is available at: http://ontolog-02.cim3.net/wiki/OntologySummit2013_Survey 


 * 2013_05_02 &amp; 03 - Thursday &amp; Friday: OntologySummit2013 Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - Co-chairs: RamSriram &amp; MikeDean - OntologySummit2013_Symposium ( see also: OntologySummit2013/WorkshopRegistration


 * 2013_04_25 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-15: Pre-symposium preparation and review - Co-chairs: RamSriram &amp; MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2013_04_25   ... RSVP Now!


 * 2013_04_18 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-14: "Communique - Final Draft Review" - Co-chairs: FabianNeuhaus & AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2013_04_18 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_04_11 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-13: "Communique - First Draft Review" - Co-chairs: AmandaVizedom & FabianNeuhaus - ConferenceCall_2013_04_11 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * The OntologySummit2013_Hackathon_Clinics Program will be taking place over the three Saturdays, 30-Mar-2013, 6-Apr-2013 & 13-Apr-2013 - Seven (7) projects are being featured - Participants can join us for the whole day's activities, and observers might be interested to dial into each project's "open webcast segment" of their workday - see access details under the Hackathon-Clinics Master Calendar


 * 2013_04_04 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-12: "Synthesis - II" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & MatthewWest - Panelists: LeoObrst, SteveRay, TerryLongstreth, ToddSchneider, MatthewWest, MikeBennett, MichaelDenny, PeterYim, FabianNeuhaus, AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2013_04_04 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_03_28 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-11: "The OntologySummit2013_Hackathon_Clinics Program Launch" - Co-chairs: MikeDean, KenBaclawski & PeterYim - Panelists / Briefings: AmandaVizedom, VictorAgroskin, JoanneLuciano, MarcelaVegetti-AliHashemi, KenBaclawski, JoelBender, MikeBennett, TillMossakowski - ConferenceCall_2013_03_28 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_03_21 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-10: "Software Environments for Evaluating Ontologies - II" - Co-chairs: MichaelDenny & PeterYim - Panelists: AdamPease, TillMossakowski, TaniaTudorache, MichelDumontier, KingsleyIdehen - ConferenceCall_2013_03_21 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_03_14 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-09: "Building Ontologies to Meet Evaluation Criteria - II" - Co-chairs: MikeBennett & MatthewWest - Panelists: JoanneLuciano, LeoObrst - ConferenceCall_2013_03_14 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!'


 * 2013_03_07 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-08: "Intrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation - II" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & SteveRay - Panelists: PatrickLambrix, MariaCopeland, MelissaHaendel, EdBarkmeyer - ConferenceCall_2013_03_07 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_02_28 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-07: "Extrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation - II" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & TerryLongstreth - Panelists: JoaoPauloAlmeida, KeithSilliman, AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2013_02_28 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_02_21 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-06: "Synthesis - I" - Chair: MatthewWest - Panelists: LeoObrst, SteveRay, TerryLongstreth, ToddSchneider, MikeBennett, MichaelDenny, FabianNeuhaus, AmandaVizedom, MikeDean, PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2013_02_21 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_02_20 - Wednesday: Open OntoIOp Session - Chair: TillMossakowski - Invited Speaker: LucianoSerafini - ConferenceCall_2013_02_20 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_02_14 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-05: "Software Environments for Evaluating Ontologies - I" - Co-chairs: PeterYim & MichaelDenny - Panelists: MichaelGruninger, JeanneHolm, GavinMatthews - ConferenceCall_2013_02_14 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_02_07 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-04: "Building Ontologies to Meet Evaluation Criteria - I" - Co-chairs: MatthewWest & MikeBennett - Panelists: BarrySmith, ChrisPartridge, AnatolyLevenchuk - ConferenceCall_2013_02_07 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_01_31 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-03: "Intrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation: Practice and Theory" - Co-chairs: SteveRay & LeoObrst - Panelists: MariaPovedaVillalon, MariCarmenSuarezFigueroa, AsuncionGomezPerez, SamirTartir, IsmailcemBudakArpinar, JesualdoTomasFernandezBreis, AstridDuqueRamos, NathalieAussenacGilles - ConferenceCall_2013_01_31 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_01_24 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 session-02: "Extrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation: Finding the Scope" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & TerryLongstreth - Panelists: HansPolzer, MaryBalboni, MeganKatsumi - ConferenceCall_2013_01_24 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2013_01_17 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013: "Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle" Launch Event - co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & MatthewWest - Panelists: LeoObrst, RamSriram, TrishWhetzel, GeorgeStrawn, SteveRay, TerryLongstreth, ToddSchneider, AmandaVizedom, MikeDean, FabianNeuhaus, PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2013_01_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 012_12_19 - Wednesday: OntologPSMW Debut, Tutorial and Possibilities - chair: PeterYim - invited speakers: KenBaclawski & YaronKoren - ConferenceCall_2012_12_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_12_13 - Thursday: OntologySummit2013 (Pre-Launch) Community Input & Planning Session - co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & MatthewWest - ConferenceCall_2012_12_13 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!

... see also:


 * Major Past Events
 * Calendar of other RelevantEventsOfInterest2012
 * RelevantCallsOfInterest2012
 * RecruitmentOpportunity

Discussion Forum Archives / File Workspace & Repository / Meetings & Conference Calls

 * [ontolog-forum] member mailing-list discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum
 * see archives of other mailing-lists (for announcements, projects, initiatives, co-located and incubated CoP's, etc.) hosted on our collaborative work environment - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/
 * Meetings, Conference Calls & Workshops - Ontolog's Master Event calendar: MeetingsCalls
 * File-Sharing Workspace / Document Archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/

Charter of Ontolog (a.k.a. the "Ontolog Forum")
Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community of practice, whose membership will:


 * Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the development and application of both formal and informal ontologies.


 * Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort, as well as to the broader domain of eBusiness standardization efforts.


 * Strive to advance the field of ontological engineering and semantic technologies, and to help move them into main stream applications.

See also: OntologCharter

Communities of Practice Initiatives, Projects & Programs

 * Regular Ontolog Community Activities (mostly virtual events)
 * MeetingsCalls - weekly conference calls, workshops, ...
 * Our regular weekly conference calls are on Thursdays starting 17:30 UTC (refer to the MeetingsCalls page for details). All meetings are open. Members of the community have a standing invitation to join us. When we do not have a scheduled event, the this time-slot will be used for operations planning and review by active members of the community.
 * Ontolog Invited Speaker Sessions, Panel Discussions and other related Events - please access the archived material (which forms the body of knowledge that this community is building together)by browsing our list of Past Events or our MeetingsCalls page.

''To add a project or initiative (after starting it in accordance with our community process), please contact PeterYim so he can add a bullet below with the project name, start a wiki homepage as well as the mailing list(s) and the shared-file directory for it.'' A project page template is available as an optional guide.


 * UblOntology - UBL Ontology Project
 * ProtegeKIF - Protege-KIF Project
 * CctRepresentation - CCT-Representation: Modeling / Formalizing Representation of ebXML Core Component Types - Findings & Recommendations
 * EIDX Semantic Harmonization Panel presentation & paper - ConferenceCall_2004_12_01
 * ebXML CCTS v2.01 Feedback and Recommendations - sub-project to put together a response to UN/CEFACT - see: CctsResponse_V2pt01
 * NhinRfi - (US) National Health Information Network, Request for Information - project to put together a joint response
 * Health Ontology pilot and demonstration - see: HealthOntologyMapping
 * UpperOntologySummit - the Upper Ontology Summit, co-organized by Ontolog and NIST with major public upper ontology custodians and other conveners and sponsors - March 15, 2006 (and all activities leading up to it) - initializing the OntologySummit series, a 3-month program that has been run annually ever since!
 * OntologizingOntolog - Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge
 * OntologTaxoThesaurus - commenced on 2006.04.20 as a result of the discussion during ConferenceCall_2006_04_20
 * OntologyMeasurementEvaluation - Ontology Measurement and Evaluation - a joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR initiative
 * DatabaseAndOntology - a mini-series of events focused on "Database and Ontology"
 * OntologyDrivenApplications - an inventory, assessment and ranking of ontology-driven applications ... see: OntologyDrivenApplications/TopFive
 * ONION - "ontologies In Ontology" - project to develop an ontological framework for IT Service Management (incorporating frameworks of ISO 20000 / COBIT / COSO extended by ISO Security Standards and aligned with OASIS BCM; thus SOA) ... more to come!
 * OntologySummit2007 - "Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
 * OKMDS - "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support: Making Better Decisions" - a joint NASA & Ontolog initiative, featuring a six-month mini-series of talks, panel discussions and online discourse in both 'real world' and 'virtual world' settings
 * OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) Initiative - founded 2008.01.03 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_01_03
 * OntologySummit2008 - "Toward An Open Ontology Repository"
 * BuildingServicePerformance - an Ontolog project to formalize how we describe the Purpose(s) of a Facility and the associated services expected from the building systems. We hope to include the beginning of a compliance framework as well. That is, how to understand and capture if the services being provided are in accordance with required performance metrics.
 * SemanticWiki mini-series - ref. the program planning meeting at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_18
 * EmergingOntologyShowcase mini-series - kick-off session: ConferenceCall_2008_09_25
 * IAOA - International Association for Ontology and its Applications - est. 29-Apr-2009 (Trento, Italy)
 * OntologySummit2009 - "Toward Ontology-based Standards"
 * OntologyBasedStandards - sample projects identified during OntologySummit2009
 * UoM_Ontology_Standard - "Quanity and Unit of Measure Ontology-based Standard"
 * SOCoP - Spatial Ontology Community of Practice
 * OntologySummit2010 - "Creating the Ontologists of the Future"
 * SharingIntegratingOntologies (SIO) - commenced 2010.03.16
 * OntologySummit2011 - "Making the Case for Ontology"
 * OntoIOp - Ontology Integration and Interoperability Standard (ISO NP 17347)
 * OntologiesAndStandards - a Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog mini-series - kick-off session: ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
 * OntologySummit2012 - "Ontology for Big Systems"
 * ModelingBenchmarkChallenge - a project that came out of Ontology Summit 2012 - started Apr-2012
 * EarthScienceOntolog - a Joint EarthCube-Ontolog Mini-series on "Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community" - established: ConferenceCall_2012_06_21
 * CommonLogic_V2 - established to bring about the revision of the CommonLogic standard after the meeting of ConferenceCall_2012_09_20
 * OntologyBasedStandards - a Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO*-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog Initiative, launched: ConferenceCall_2012_10_25 ..  (*various ISO working groups)
 * OntologySummit2013 - "Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle"

= Ontolog Community Wiki =

This is the ONTOLOG Community Wiki, an integral part of its Collaborative Work Environment ("CWE"). The wiki is intended for use by trusted team and community members of Projects and Communities of Practice (CoP's) for collaborative documentation. What we have here is a read-and-write web, as opposed to the ordinary web pages that you can only read from with your browser. Treat this as the restaurant napkin that you can sketch on, to share your idea with people sitting around the table. Except, this time, the wiki is your napkin, and the people you are sharing your idea with can be all around the world, sitting in front of their computers (or other computing devices) connected to the Internet; and they don't even necessarily have to be there at the same time you are sketching.

Getting Started
The WikiHomePage, a link to which can be found under the "navigation" bar (at the top of every page) would generally be the first place to go. Click on the "OntologPSMW" moniker (upper left of any page) should get you to thre too. That page on the wiki's should provide further links to all appropriate content in our collaborative work environment (CWE).

Viewing of wiki content can be done with almost any web browser (no password is needed for "open" wiki's (which is the mode this wiki is working in); username/password will be needed for "community only" wiki's (where applicable; not our case here.)

To write-to (edit content of) the wiki, one will need to "Log in" (see: upper right corner). First time users should create an account if you have not already done so, with a user name for yourself (like "JaneDoe" or "AbrahamLincoln" before you proceed with a wiki authoring/editing session. Please use your real name, as that would allow contributions to be properly attributed to you. You will need to use a password (even if it's simple) so that your identity does not get spoofed too easily. Note that an email verification is needed for your new account to take effect. Text formatting rules for this flavor of wiki can be found at the GettingStarted page. For other guidelines to working with this Wiki, please read our WikiStyleGuide and WikiProcessGuide. First time users could read more about wiki's (say, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki) and then play in the SandBox. First time users should read up on wikis at WhatIsaWiki and then play in the SandBox. If you are wondering what all that "" is about, take a look at PurpleNumbers.

Editing of any wiki page can be done (after one has logged in) by loading that page on your browser, and then click on the "Edit" link at the sidebar menu on your right. Do your edits in the editing dialog box. One may click on the "Show preview" (or "Show changes") button to see how the new edits look like. When you are satisfied with the edit, please click on the "Save page" button (at the bottom of the page) to update the page. For significant edits, it is recommended that one should make an entry to "Summary" field to document the edit and help highlight what that edit session entailed (for the ease of future retrieval.) You may be challenged to perform some simple task (like a captcha challenge, or solving a simple arithmetic problem) so the system can confirm that you are not a "spambot."

Noteworthy Events from the Past
Podcast of the audio archives for the recorded events below are available: Subscribe to RSS feed using iTunes, Firefox (with appropriate plug-in), Podnova, or other podcast/RSS compatible, sites, client apps, and browsers by clicking here.

e.g. For iPod users: one can discover our content from doing a search through the Apple Podcasts (via iTunes), or go straight to: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=120367007&s=143441


 * 2012_12_12 - Wednesday: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Session-5: "Moving Forward with Semantics for Earth Science Data" - Co-chairs: NancyWiegand & MikeDean - Panelists / Briefings by: KrishnaSinha, NancyWiegand, LeoObrst, DaveKolas - this session will conclude with the Mini-series Wrap-up by: KrishnaSinha & LeoObrst - ConferenceCall_2012_12_12 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_11_08 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "OntologyBasedStandards" mini-series session-2: Sharing Experiences-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & EricChan - Panelists: ElisaKendall, MarkLinehan, DavideSottara - ConferenceCall_2012_11_08 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_11_06 - Tuesday: Team Meeting: OOR Strategy (brainstorm) session - Co-chairs: PeterYim & KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_11_06


 * 2012_11_01 - Thursday: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Session-4: "Ontologies for Earth Sciences" - Co-chairs: DaliaVaranka & MarkSchildhauer - Panel-Briefings: LuisBermudez, BoyanBrodaric, NormanMorrison, ThomasHuang & MarkSchildhauer - ConferenceCall_2012_11_01 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_10_25 - Thursday: Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "OntologyBasedStandards" mini-series session-1: Sharing Experiences-I - Co-chairs: ElisaKendall & PeterYim - Speakers: JamesStPierre, ChetEnsign, AndrewWatson, DeniseWarzel, MichaelGruninger, LeoObrst, KenBaclawski, EricChan - ConferenceCall_2012_10_25 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_10_11 - Thursday: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Session-3: "Heterogeneity-preserving Data Interoperability: Methods and Challenges" - Co-chairs: KrzysztofJanowicz & PascalHitzler - Panelists: SimonScheider, PrateekJain, BenjaminAdams, GiancarloGuizzardi - ConferenceCall_2012_10_11 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_09_20 - Thursday: Joint CL-IAOA-Ontolog virtual discussion session: "Revision of the CommonLogic Standard" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2012_09_20 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_09_11 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XIII: "New OOR Use Cases and their Impact on the OOR Architecture" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_09_11


 * 2012_09_06 - Thursday: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series Session-2: "Ontology Development and Application across Earth Science Systems Lifecycle" - Co-chairs: GaryBergCross & NaicongLi - Panel-Briefings: RichardHooper, PeterFox, MattiaSantoro, NaicongLi - ConferenceCall_2012_09_06 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_08_23 - Thursday: EarthScienceOntolog Mini-series - Session-1: "Value Proposition of Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community" - Co-Chairs: KrishnaSinha & LeoObrst - Panelists: KrzysztofJanowicz, DaliaVaranka, PascalHitzler, MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2012_08_23 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_08_21 - Tuesday: OOR Funding-II: "Rethinking our Funding Strategy" Brainstorm Session - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_21


 * 2012_08_14 - Tuesday: OOR for Big Data-I: Brainstorm Session - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_08_14


 * 2012_07_17 - Tuesday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-3: "Standardisation Coordination and Ontology Repositories" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman - ConferenceCall_2012_07_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_06_26 - OOR Content Workshop-III - Co-chair: MichaelGruninger & MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_06_26


 * 2012_06_21 - Thursday: "Exploring Joint EarthCube-Ontolog Activities" - Co-chair: LeoObrst & KrishnaSinha - ConferenceCall_2012_06_21


 * 2012_06_19 - Tuesday: Joint SOCoP-OOR event - presentation by TorstenHahmann on: "A Reconciliation of Ontologies of Abstract Space: From Mereotopologies to Geometries" - Co-chair: GaryBergCross & MichaelGruninger - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_06_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_05_29 - OOR Content Workshop-II: "Coordinating Content among various OOR instances" - Co-chair: MichaelGruninger & MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_29


 * 2012_05_22 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VIII" Workshop - Chair: MikeDean - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_22


 * 2012_05_17 - Thursday: "Implementing 'Big Open Data' in government through Open Collabroation - case examples and possibilities" - Co-chairs: GeorgeThomas, JesseWang & PeterYim - Panelists: JoelNatividad, WilSmith, StephenLarson, JonWeers, BernadetteHyland, LeoObrst, MikeDean, KenBaclawski - ConferenceCall_2012_05_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_05_10 - Thursday: "Fostering 'Big Open Data' in government through Open Collaboration - invited presentation on NYCFacets and introduction to New York City's "Open" initiatives" - Co-chairs: JeanneHolm & PeterYim - Panelists: ChrisMusialek, AndrewNicklin & JoelNatividad - ConferenceCall_2012_05_10 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_05_08 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XII: "To tab or not to tab" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_05_08


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


 * 2012_04_24 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VII: "Metadata in Ontology Mapping" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Panelists: OliverKutz-ChristophLange-TillMossakowski, JeromeEuzenat, NatashaNoy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_04_24


 * 2012_04_13 - version 1.0 of the OntologySummit2012_Communique was formally adopted by the community at this Symposium ... endorsement of this Communique was openly solicited (for a brief period.)


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


 * 2012_04_05 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 Pre-symposium preparation & Communique Review-II - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger, ToddSchneider & AliHashemi - ConferenceCall_2012_04_05 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_03_29 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-12 - "Organizing the 'Big' Communique" - Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & AliHashemi - Panelists: OntologySummit2012 chairs & champions - ConferenceCall_2012_03_29 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_03_27 - Tuesday: OOR presentation: "Ontohub: an OOR-compliant Repository for Distributed Ontologies" - Chair: TillMossakowski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_27


 * 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 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_03_20 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-XI - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_20


 * 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 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 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 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_03_06 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-VI: "Metadata for Financial Ontologies" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Invited Speakers: DavidNewman, MikeBennett - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_03_06


 * 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_28 - Tuesday: "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-VII" Workshop - Chair: KenBaclawski - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_02_28


 * 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_31 - Tuesday: OOR Architecture & API Workshop-X - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_31


 * 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 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_01_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012 session-02: "Ontology for Big Systems: What's In Scope?" - Co-chairs: Dr. LeoObrst & Dr. NicolaGuarino - Panelists: Dr. MatthewWest, Dr. HensonGraves, Mr. CoryCasanave, Mr. ErnieLucier, Ms. MaryBrady, Dr. SteveRay, Dr. TrishWhetzel, Dr. AmandaVizedom, Dr. ToddSchneider, Mr. AliHashemi - ConferenceCall_2012_01_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_01_17 - Tuesday: OOR Metadata Workshop-V - Chair: MichaelGruninger - NIH/NCI-ORWG Panel: HaroldSolbrig, SherriDeCoronado, BrianDavis - OOR/ConferenceCall_2012_01_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2012_01_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2012: "Ontology for Big Systems" - Launch Event - Co-chairs: NicolaGuarino & LeoObrst - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 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!


 * 2011_12_01 - Thursday: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation: R V Guha on "Schema.org" - Chair: SteveRay - ConferenceCall_2011_12_01 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_11_29 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Session - "OOR Architecture & API Workshop-IX: BioPortal & OOR Synergies" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & ToddSchneider - Discussant: RayFergerson - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_11_29 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_11_03 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-2: Invited Speaker: ElisaKendall on "Ontology-Related Metadata Standards" - Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & JohnBateman - ConferenceCall_2011_11_03 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_10_20 - Thursday: Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog "Ontologies and Standards" mini-series session-1: Introducing the ISO NP 17347 "Ontology Integration and Interoperability (OntoIOp)" Standardization Effort - Co-chairs: JohnBateman & MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2011_10_20 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_09_13 - Tuesday: Joint NCBO-OOR Event - "Kicking-off the Next Phase of Collaboration" - Co-chairs: RayFergerson & PeterYim - OOR/ConferenceCall_2011_09_13 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_05_26 - Thursday: IAOA Panel Session: "Update on IAOA: From a community of practice to an international association - the specific role of the IAOA and its accomplishments so far" - Co-chairs: LeoObrst & MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2011_05_26 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_05_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: postmortem and follow-up planning - Co-chairs: SteveRay & NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2011_05_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * The OntologySummit2011_Symposium successfully concluded with the adoption and release of the OntologySummit2011_Communique (v1.0) on 19-Apr-2011 at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.


 * 2010_04_18 & 19 - Monday and Tuesday: OntologySummit2011_Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)


 * 2011_03_31 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: All Hands - Synthesis and Reports - Co-chairs: SteveRay & NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2011_03_31


 * 2011_03_24 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-8 - "Grand Challenges - I" - (Track-5) Co-chairs: RamSriram, ErnieLucier & AldenDima - Panelists: EliotSiegel, RameshJain, ChrisWelty, ChrisChute, NabilAdam, EileenBartholomew-ChristopherFrangione - ConferenceCall_2011_03_24 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_03_17 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Virtual Session-7 - "Perspectives from the European Commission" - Invited Speakers: MartaNagyRothengass, StefanoBertolo - Chair: NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2011_03_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_03_03 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-6 - "Integrating the Ontology Application Framework, Use Cases, Value and Metrics" - (Integrating Tracks 1, 2 & 3 ) Chair: SteveRay - Panelists: MichaelGruninger, RexBrooks, MikeBennett - ConferenceCall_2011_03_03 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_02_24 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-5 - "Strategies for 'Making the Case' - I" - (Track-4) Co-chairs: MatthewWest & PeterYim - Panelists: MatthewWest, NormanWinarsky, DeniseBedford, ChrisPartridge & PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2011_02_24 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_02_17 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-4 - "Value Metrics, value Models and the Value Proposition - I" - (Track-3) Co-chairs: ToddSchneider & RexBrooks - Panelists: RexBrooks, KurtConrad, ChristianFillies, MaryBalboni, JohnYanosy & ToddSchneider - ConferenceCall_2011_02_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_02_10 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-3 - "Harvesting the Business Value of Ontologies - II: More Case Examples" - (Track-2) Co-chairs: MillsDavis & MikeBennett - Panelists: DaveMcComb, RalphHodgson, SanjivaNath, JansAasman, JimRhyne & ElisaKendall, CoryCasanave - ConferenceCall_2011_02_10 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_02_03 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-2 - "Strawman for the Ontology Application Framework" - (Track-1) Co-chairs: MichaelGruninger & MichaelUschold- Panelists: MichaelUschold, LeoObrst, MichaelGruninger & AlanRector - ConferenceCall_2011_02_03 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_01_27 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: Panel Session-1 - "Harvesting the Business Value of Ontologies: Recent Case Examples" - (Track-2) Co-chairs: MillsDavis & MikeBennett - Panelists: MillsDavis, GregBardwell, ChuckRehberg, YefimZhuk & MikeBennett - ConferenceCall_2011_01_27 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2011_01_20 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011: "Making the Case for Ontology" - Launch Event - Co-chairs: SteveRay & NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2011_01_20 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_12_16 - Thursday: OntologySummit2011 (Pre-Launch) Community Input & Planning Session - co-chair: Dr. SteveRay and Dr. NicolaGuarino - ConferenceCall_2010_12_16 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_12_03 - Friday: 3rd Annual Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) Workshop - full day at USGS National Center at Reston, Virginia, USA (with remote participation support) - see: SOCoP/Workshop_Agenda_2010_12_03


 * 2010_11_19 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "(Post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - Take-II" - Co-chairs: KenBaclawski & MichaelGruninger - Panelists: KenBaclawski+ToddSchneider, AldoGangemi+AlessandroAdamou, JouniTuominen+KimViljanen, EricChan - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_11_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_11_11 - Thursday: No virtual event - SERES 2010 & ISWC 2010 in session this week!


 * 2010_10_15 - Friday: OOR Project Team Member Conference Call - discussion on the (post-BioPortal fork) OOR Architecture and API - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_10_15 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_09_30 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-3: discussion and consensus on licensing arrangements for the OOR Initiative, and positions we might take on related IPR issues - Chair: Dr. LeoObrst (OOR, MITRE) - Panelists: Mr. PeterYim (OOR, Ontolog, IAOA), Mr. MikeDean (OOR, Raytheon-BBN), Mr. BrucePerens (Perens LLC), Mr. JamieClark (OASIS) - ConferenceCall_2010_09_30 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_09_17 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion - "Getting OOR Development Going - Take-IV" Workshop - Co-chairs: Dr. ToddSchneider & Professor MichaelGruninger - Panelists: Dr. ToddSchneider (Raytheon), Mr. MikeDean (Raytheon-BBN), Dr. NatashaNoy (NCBO, Stanford University), Dr. ImmanuelNormann (Bremen University, BORG), Professor KenBaclawski (Northeastern University), Professor MichaelGruninger (University of Toronto) - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_09_17 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_09_16 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-2: what are the IPR issues relating to open ontology repositories (and ontologies in general)? - Chair: Professor MarkMusen (NCBO; Stanford) - Panelists: Mr. CameronRoss (Kojeware), Professor AlanRector (University of Manchester), Dr. JohnSowa (Vivomind Intelligence), Mr. BrucePerens (Perens LLC), Mr. JohnWilbanks (Creative Commons), Mr. PeterYim (OOR, Ontolog, IAOA) - ConferenceCall_2010_09_16 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_09_10 - Friday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Common Logic (CL) Support for OOR" - Chair: Dr. JohnSowa (Vivomind Intelligence) - Panelists: Professor JohnBateman & Dr. habil. TillMossakowski (Bremen U), Professor MichaelGruninger (U of Toronto), Mr. CameronRoss (Kojeware), Mr. AdamPease (Articulate Software), Dr. PatHayes - ConferenceCall_2010_09_10 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_09_09 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog-NCBO-CC-IAOA-OASIS Panel Discussion - "IPR issues in Ontology and the OOR" session-1: an exposition on relevant IPR regimes - Keynote speaker: Dr. GeorgeStrawn (NCO/NITRD) - Chair: Mr. PeterYim (OOR, Ontolog, IAOA) - Panelists: Mr. JamieClark, JD (OASIS), Mr. JohnWilbanks (CC), Mr. BrucePerens (Perens LLC) - ConferenceCall_2010_09_09 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_08_05 - Thursday: Ontolog Panel Session: OWL 2 session-2: "OWL 2: Tools and Applications" - Chair: Professor IanHorrocks (W3C; Oxford) - Panelists: Mr. MatthewHorridge (Manchester), Dr. TimRedmond & Dr. TaniaTudorache (Stanford), Dr. AndreasHarth (NeOn; Karlsruhe), Dr. EvrenSirin (Clark & Parsia), Mr. EricChan & Dr. AlanWu (ICOM; Oracle) - ConferenceCall_2010_08_05 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_07_29 - Thursday: Ontolog Forum Session: OWL 2 session-1 - "OWL 2: The Next Generation" - presentation by: Professor IanHorrocks - ConferenceCall_2010_07_29 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_07_22 - Thursday: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation - Session Host: Dr. LeoObrst - Invited Speaker: Professor IanHorrocks - "Scalable Ontology-based Information Systems" - ConferenceCall_2010_07_22 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_05_13 - Thursday: First IAOA Assembly (face-to-face session) co-located with the FOIS 2010 Conference (Toronto, Canada)
 * An updated report on IAOA was presented by NicolaGuarino (President) and other members of the newly elected Executive Council of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications


 * First IAOA Assembly commencing (virtually) with IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2010 being held between April 28 ~ May 3, 2010.
 * Election and other Voting results are out - IAOA members should refer to the announcements of the results posted to the [iaoa-member] mailing list on 5-May-2010


 * 2010_04_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010 review and follow-up action planning ("postmortem") session - Co-chair: Dr. SteveRay & Dr. FabianNeuhaus - ConferenceCall_2010_04_15 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_04_01 - Thursday: Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel Session: "OOR Use Cases - Take-3" - Chair: Professor KenBaclawski & Dr. ToddSchneider - Panelists: Dr. ToddSchneider, Mr. MatthewHettinger, Professor KenBaclawski and Mr. MaximoGurmendez - ConferenceCall_2010_04_01 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_03_25 - Thursday: Joint SIO-OOR-Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Getting the SIO Project Going" - Chair: Dr. JohnSowa - Panelists: Mr. PeterYim, Dr. MatthewWest, Dr. PatCassidy, Professor MichaelGruninger, Professor JohnBateman & Mr. MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2010_03_25 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * The OntologySummit2010_Symposium concluded successfully with a unanimous endorsement of the OntologySummit2010_Communique


 * 2010_03_16 - Tuesday: Post Symposium Summit Follow-up Session - "Sharing and Integrating Ontologies" - Champion: Dr. JohnSowa - ConferenceCall_2010_03_16 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 2010_03_15 & 16 - Monday and Tuesday: OntologySummit2010_Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)


 * 11-Mar-2010 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Community Session-6: "Review and Alignment of Draft Deliverables and Final sync-up prior to the symposium" - Chair: Dr. FabianNeuhaus & Professor BarrySmith - Panelists: Dr. AmandaVizedom, Professor ArturoSanchez, Mr. PeterYim, Professor MichaelGruninger & Dr. SteveRay - ConferenceCall_2010_03_11 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 4-Mar-2010 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-5: "Synthesizing the Community Input" - Chair: Dr. SteveRay - Panelists: Dr. AmandaVizedom, Professor ArturoSanchez, Mrs. ElizabethFlorescu & Mr. PeterYim - ConferenceCall_2010_03_04 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 25-February-2010 - Thursday: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation and Demo - Mr. AdamCheyer & Dr. TomGruber - "Siri: An Ontology-driven Application for the Masses" - ConferenceCall_2010_02_25 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 19-February-2010 - Friday: OOR Panel Discussion: "Coordinating our OpenOntologyRepository Software Development" - Chair: Mr. MikeDean - Panelists: Mr. JimChatigny, Professor MichaelGruninger, Professor KenBaclawski & Dr. NatashaNoy - OOR/ConferenceCall_2010_02_19 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 11-February-2010 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-4: "Template for Ontology Training Programs" - Co-chair: Professor BarrySmith & Dr. FabianNeuhaus - Panelists: Dr. NicolaGuarino, Professor DagobertSoergel, Dr. BillAndersen & Professor MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2010_02_11 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 4-February-2010 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-3: "Training Requirements for Ontologists, or What Are We Training For?" - Chair: Dr. AmandaVizedom - Panelists: Professor DeniseBedford, Dr. MichaelUschold, Mr. MikeBennett & Dr. JohnSowa - ConferenceCall_2010_02_04 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 21-January-2010 - Thursday: UoM_Ontology_Standard: First OASIS QUOMOS TC Meeting (Inaugural Meeting) - ConferenceCall_2010_01_21 ... please refer the the "Call for Participation" message for details on how to join.


 * 14-January-2010 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-2: "Training Content for Future Ontologists" - co-chairs: Professor MichaelGruninger & Dr. LeoObrst - Panelists: Professor BarrySmith, Professor ChristopherMenzel, Dr. PierreGrenon & Dr. AldoGangemi - ConferenceCall_2010_01_14 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 07-January-2010 - Thursday: UoM_Ontology_Standard community session: - Getting ready for the OASIS QUOMOS TC transition - Chair: Mr. HowardMason - Panelists: Dr. CharlesEhrlich, Mr. EdwardBarkmeyer, Dr. PatHayes, Mr. DavidLeal, Mr. HansPeter_de_Koning & Dr. JamesMasters - UoM_Ontology_Standard/ConferenceCall_2010_01_07 ... Full proceedings of the session are now on archive!


 * 17-December-2009 - Thursday: Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-1: "Surveying the Landscape and the Possibilities" - Chair: Dr. SteveRay & Dr. AmandaVizedom; Panelists: Professor ArturoSanchez, Dr. AntonyGalton, Ms. ElizabethFlorescu, Mr. PeterYim, Dr. AmandaVizedom - ConferenceCall_2009_12_17 ... full proceedings is now available online!


 * 10-December-2009 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Launch Event - Chair: Dr. SteveRay & Professor BarrySmith - ConferenceCall_2009_12_10


 * 19-November-2009 - Thursday: UoM_Ontology_Standard community session: Advancing the work to OASIS - UoM_Ontology_Standard/ConferenceCall_2009_11_19 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 12-November-2009 - Thursday: SOCoP Fall'09 Workshop - SOCoP/Workshop_2009_11_12 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 5-November-2009 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010 (Pre-launch) Community Input & Planning Session - co-chair: Dr. SteveRay & Professor BarrySmith - ConferenceCall_2009_11_05 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 30-October-2009 - Friday: UoM_Ontology_Standard workshop (full-day, face-to-face, with remote participation support) - Co-chair: FrankOlken, EdBarkmeyer & HowardMason - venue: NSF (Arlington, VA, USA) - see: UoM_Ontology_Standard/Workshop_2009_10_30


 * 15-October-2009 - Thursday: "OOR-BioPortal Comparative Analysis" panel discussion - Chair: ToddSchneider - Panelists: NatashaNoy, MichaelDorf, KenBaclawski, ElisaKendall & MikeDean - ConferenceCall_2009_10_15


 * 08-October-2009 - Thursday: Progress Review on the OntologyBasedStandards sample projects identified at OntologySummit2009 - Chair: SteveRay - Panelists: DavidConnelly, MatthewWest, MikeBennett, BrandNiemann, KevinKeck, DavidCoggeshall, JoshuaLieberman, EdBarkmeyer - ConferenceCall_2009_10_08


 * 24-Sep-2009 - Thurday: "Strawman for a UoM_Ontology_Standard" - Chair: Dr. FrankOlken (NSF) and Mr. DavidPrice (Eurostep) - Panelists: Mr. DavidLeal (CAESAR), Dr. JamesMasters (TopQuadrant), Dr. GuntherSchadow (Indiana University), Mr. EdwardBarkmeyer (NIST) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_09_24 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 6-Aug-2009 - Thursday: "Ontology Repository Research Issues" - Chair: Professor KenBaclawski (Northeastern) - Panelists: Dr. MichaelGruninger, Ms. ElisaKendall, Mr. BartGajderowicz, Dr. MathieuDaquin & Dr. ToddSchneider - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_08_06


 * 30-Jul-2009 - Thursday: "BioPortal and related Ontology Repository Implementations and Development" - Chair: Dr. NatashaNoy (Stanford) - Panelists: Dr. CarlosRueda, Mr. PaulAlexander, Mr. JohnGraybeal, Mr. MikeDean, Mr. StephenGranite & Professor KenBaclawski - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_07_30 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 16-Jul-2009 - Thursday: "Integrated tools for ontology development and management: A field guide to the Stanford technology" - Chair: Professor MarkMusen (Stanford) - Panelists: Dr. TaniaTudorache, Dr. TimRedmond & Dr. NatashaNoy - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_07_16 ... Audio archive of the session is available!

(IAOA)" by members of the IAOA Executive Council - Dr. NicolaGuarino (ISTC-CNR), Professor JohnBateman (Bremen), Dr. StefanoBorgo (ISTC-CNR), Dr. PaulBuitelaar (DERI), Dr. AntonyGalton (Exeter), Professor MichaelGruninger (Toronto), Professor RiichiroMizoguchi (Osaka), Professor MarkMusen (Stanford), Dr. LeoObrst (MITRE), Dr. LaureVieu (IRIT-CNRS) and Mr. PeterYim (Ontolog) ... Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_06_18 ... Audio archive of the session is available!
 * 18-Jun-2009 - Thursday: Announcing the newly formed "International Association for Ontology and its Applications


 * 19-Jun-2009 - Friday: "Towards A Quantities and Units of Measure Ontology-based Standard" - Chair: Dr. FrankOlken (NSF) - Panelists: Dr. StanHuff (Univ. of Utah), Mr. DavidPrice (Eurostep), Mr. DaveMcComb (Semantic Arts), Dr. RobertDragoset (NIST), Dr. RobertRaskin (NASA), Dr. PatrickCassidy (MICRA), Mr. HowardMason (ISO), Dr. PatHayes (IHMC) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_06_19 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 14-May-2009, Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Follow-up & Action Planning Conference Call - Chair: Dr. SteveRay - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_05_14 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * 6~7-Apr-2009 OntologySummit2009 Face-to-Face Workshop and Symposium - Chair: Dr. SteveRay - proceedings of the sessions is now available at: OntologySummit2009_Symposium - the OntologySummit2009_Communique was finalized adopted and released


 * 26-March-2009, Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Session - "Toward Ontology-based Standards - A Synthesis" - Chair: Dr. SteveRay; Panelists: Mr. HowardMason, Professor MichaelGruninger, Mr. DavidConnelly, Dr. KatherineGoodier, Mr. DavidLeal, Mr. NicolasFigay - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_03_26 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 19-March-2009, Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Session - "Standards Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: Mr. HowardMason (ISO TC 184/SC 4; BAE Systems); Panelists: MatthewWest (ISO 15926; ISO 18876; Information Junction), DavidLeal (ISO TC184/SC4; CAESAR Systems), GeraldRadack (ISO 22745; ISO 8000; CTC), NicolasFigay (AFNOR IDMI and CN DSTI; ASD Strategic Standardization Group; EADS), DavidShorter (CEN TC310 WG1) and DavidPrice (Future STEP; Eurostep) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_03_19 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 12-March-2009, Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Session - "Ontology Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: Professor MichaelGruninger (U of Toronto); Panelists: Professor BarrySmith (SUNY, Buffalo), Mr. EdwardBarkmeyer (NIST), Professor BillMcCarthy (MSU), Mr. ConradBock (NIST) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_03_12 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 5-March-2009, Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series Session-6: "The Future of Semantic http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? Trends, Challenges and Outlook" - Chair: Prof. Dr. RudiStuder (FZI & Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe) and Dr. MarkGreaves (Vulcan); Panelists: Dr. SebastianSchaffert, Mr. HaroldSolbrig, Mr. MaxVoelkel, Mr. MarkusKroetzsch, Mr. MikeDean, Mr. PeterYim, Dr.  LiDing,  Dr. JieBao, Mr. ChristophLange, Mr. DanielHansch, Professor DanielSchwabe, Mr. JoelNatividad, Professor KeiCheung, Professor Dr. PeterDolog, Mr. TobiasKuhn & Mr. YaronKoren - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_03_05 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 19-February-2009 - Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Session: "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground (Take-2): the work begins ..." - Chair: Dr. ToddSchneider (Raytheon) - Panelist: Professor MarkMusen (NCBO, Stanford), Dr. NatashaNoy (Stanford), Mr. MikeDean (BBN), Dr. PaulBuitelaar (DERI), Mr. AndreasHarth (DERI), Dr. MathieuDaquin (NeOn, Open University UK), Professor KenBaclawski (Northeastern U) & Professor MichaelGruninger (U of Toronto) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_02_19 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 12-February-2009, Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series Session-5: "Semantic Wiki Applications & Use Cases (2): horizontal applications" - Chair: Dr. LiDing (RPI) & Dr. JieBao (RPI); Panelists: Mr. YaronKoren on "External Data in Semantic MediaWiki", Mr. PhilippZaltenbach on "MWSearch", Professor PeterDolog on "Tag Based Recommendations in KIWI", Mr. MikeAxelrod on "Fostering collaboration and wiki culture in a large corporate environment", Mr. MarcFeickert on "FamilySearch" and Mr. JoelNatividad - "Visualizing Semantic Inline Query Results with SRF-Ploticus" - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_02_12 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 5-February-2009, Thursday: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation - Mr. AldoGangemi & Dr. ValentinaPresutti on "Pattern-based Ontology Design" - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 22-January-2009, Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series Session-4: "Semantic Wiki Applications & Use Cases (1): vertical applications" - Chair: Mr. MikeDean (BBN) & Mr. PeterYim (Ontolog; CIM3); Panelists: Mr. HaroldSolbrig & Dr. GuoqianJiang (Mayo Clinic) on "LexWiki, BiomedGT and the WHO ICD11 Wiki"; Dr. JieBao (RPI/TWC) on "Mesh-up of Maps and Events in Semantic Wiki"; Mr. ChristophLange (Jacobs University) on "Semantic Wikis in Mathematics" - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_01_22 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 15-January-2009, Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Launch Event - Chair: Dr. SteveRay - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_01_15 ... Audio archive of the session is available!


 * Thursday, 11-December-2008 - SemanticWiki mini-series Session-3: "Semantic Wiki Technology (2): MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, Extensions, Add-on's and other Enhancements" - Chair: MaxVoelkel; Panelists: YaronKoren (Semantic Forms, Semantic Drilldown, Semantic Result Formats, Semantic Google Maps, Semantic Compound Queries and Data Transfer), DanielHansch & MarkGreaves (the SMW Halo extension), RaphaelVolz (a Rules Prototype in SMW), PeterYim & KenBaclawski (PMWX - Fine-Grained Addressability in Purple MediaWiki and Purple SemanticMediaWiki), and, Jie Bao (Concept Modeling on SMW) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_12_11 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!

" - Co-chair: Dr. PaulBuitelaar and Mr. PeterYim - Panelist: Dr. Mathieu d'Aquin, Mr. MatthewHorridge and Dr. PaulBuitelaar - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, 04-December-2008 - Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel Session: "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology & Infrastructure Landscape - II


 * Thursday, 20-November-2008 - SemanticWiki mini-series Session-2: "An introduction to some of the Semantic Wiki Engines and Related Technologies" - Chair: Mr. HaroldSolbrig; Panelists: Dr. SebastianSchaffert & Professor PeterDolog (IkeWiki / KiWi), Mr. TobiasKuhn (AceWiki), Mr. ChristophLange (SWiM), Professor MartinHepp (myOntology), Dr. SoerenAuer & Mr. SebastianDietzold (OntoWiki) & Professor DanielSchwabe (HDEWiki) - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_11_20 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 23-October-2008 - SemanticWiki mini-series Launch Event: "A Survey of the Landscape and State-of-Art in Semantic Wiki" - Co-chair: SebastianSchaffert & MaxVoelkel Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_10_23 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 16-October-2008 - "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series panel session-2 - co-chaired by Professor Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-2 is featuring Sven Van Poucke, MD ( Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium) who will give a talk entitled: "Ontologists and Domain Experts focusing on Chronic Wounds : Different Worlds on the Same Planet?," and Professor Martin Hepp (Bundeswehr University, Munich, Germany) who will present on: "The Good Relations Ontology: Making Semantic Web-based E-Commerce a Reality." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_10_16 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 25-September-2008 - Kick-off session for the "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series co-championed by Professor KenBaclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. MikeBennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-1 of the mini-series featured Mr. MikeBennett (Hypercube Ltd., London UK) who gave a talk on: "The EDM Council Semantics Repository: Building global consensus for the Financial Services Industry," and Mr. MikeBergman (Zitgist LLC) who presented on: "UMBEL: A Lightweight Subject Reference Structure for the Web." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_25 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 18-September-2008 - "SemanticWiki" Mini-series Program Planning Meeting - with Co-champions: Dr. LiDing (RPI Tetherless World Constellation), Dr. SebastianSchaffert (Salzburg Research, Austria), Mr. HaroldSolbrig (Mayo Clinic), Mr. MaxVolkel (AIFB, Karlsruhe) and Mr. PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_18 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Friday, 22-August-2008 - OpenOntologyRepository Panel Discussion Session on "Getting OOR Development Off the Ground: Identifying Synergies & Gaps" - with Chairs: Dr. LeoObrst (MITRE, Ontolog) and Panelists: Mr. MikeDean (BBN), Professor MarkMusen (Stanford), Dr. LiDing (RPI), Mr. BruceBargmeyer (LBNL) & Mr. BillAndersen ( OntologyWorks ). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_08_22 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Monday, 14-July-2008 - BuildingServicePerformance (BSP) Project Kickoff - Co-conveners BobSmith, DeborahMacPherson, MichelleRaymond, TobyConsidine & RexBrooks brought the founding project members together, adopted the BSP project charter, exchanged views on the project vision, and formally launched the BuildingServicePerformance (BSP) community and project. Please refer to details on the session page at: BuildingServicePerformance/ConferenceCall_2008_07_14 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 26-Jun-2008 - Ontolog Panel Discussion on: "Rules in Semantic Web Applications" with panelists Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE; Ontolog) (chair), Dr. Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) & Mr. Martin O'Connor (Stanford-BMIR). Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_26 ... Audio archive of the session is now available.


 * Thursday, 19-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Dr. Mark Greaves (Director, Knowledge Systems from Vulcan, Inc.) gave a talk entitled: "Knowledge Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic Web." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_19 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 12-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research; Chair, W3C RIF Working Group) gave a premier talk on: "RIF: Rules Interchange Format." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 05-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Professor William E. [[McCarthy]] from Michigan State University (MSU) gave a talk entitled: "Ontologically-Driven Standards Development for Business Process Systems." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 29-May-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 8th and Concluding Event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Speakers from NASA, Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) and Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) present on: "Connecting People Through Semantics, and OKDMS Series Summary." This session was chaired by Ms. Holm. and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's SecondLife: Explorer Island virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_05_29 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 08-May-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 7th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Professor YochaiBenkler (Harvard) is invited to join session co-chair, Ms. SusanTurnbull & Ms. JeanneHolm to give a talk on: "Cooperation, Human Systems Design, and Peer Production." This virtual event is, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_05_08 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Monday & Tuesday, 28~29-April-2008 - OntologySummit2008 (face-to-face) Workshop at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - see  details at: OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda ... the OntologySummit2008_Communique: Toward An Open Ontology Repository was adopted at this workshop. ... Audio archives of the workshop sessions are now available ... Pictures from the workshop are available too!


 * Thursday, 17-April-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 6th episode of their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Dr. Jeff Conklin ( CogNexus Institute ), Dr. Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open University, UK), Mr. Eric Yeh (SRI) and Mr. Jack Park are invited to join session co-chairs, Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog; CIM3) and Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) to present their talks on: "Knowledge Mapping for Sensemaking." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_04_17 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 10-April-2008 - Joint OpenOntologyRepository-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion Session with Co-chairs: Professor BarrySmith (NCOR, U at Buffalo) and Professor MichaelGruninger (U of Toronto), entitled: "Developing an Ontology of Ontologies for OOR." On the Panel: Professor MichaelGruninger (U of Toronto), Dr. PeterHaase (AIFB, U of Karlsruhe; Project NeOn), Dr. NatashaNoy (Stanford-BMIR) & Ms. ElisaKendall (OMG; Sandpiper Software). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_04_10 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 3-April-2008 - Joint OpenOntologyRepository-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion Session with Co-chairs: Dr. LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE) and Dr. FabianNeuhaus (NIST) entitled: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-2." On the Panel were: : Dr. DougLenat (Cycorp), Mr. DekeSmith (NBIS), Professor MarciaZeng (Kent State U), Dr. DeniseBedford (WorldBank), Dr. PatHayes (IHMC), Ms. MalaMehrotra (Pragati) & Dr. RobRaskin (NASA/JPL). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_04_03 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 27-March-2008 - Joint OpenOntologyRepository-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion Session with Co-chairs: Dr. LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE) and Dr. FabianNeuhaus (NIST) entitled: "An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements - Session-1." On the Panel were: Mr. WilliamBug (UCSD), Mr. EvanWallace (OMG; NIST), Dr. JohnLMcCarthy (XMDR, LBNL), Professor KenBaclawski (NEU), Mr. PeterBenson (ECCMA) and Mr. RexBrooks (OASIS; IRSC). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_27 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 25-Mar-2008 - Ontolog events are now posted onto a OntologGoogleGroupCalendar. Thanks to Dr. JieBao (Tetherless World Constellation, RPI) who suggested that we do it, made this first instance happen, and has agreed to help with maintaining that calendar for the community initially.


 * Thursday, 20-March-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 5th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Dr. Richard Keller (NASA/ACS), Dr. Robert Raskin (NASA/JPL) and Mr. Ralph Hodgson (NASA-Constellation Project; TopQuadrant) were invited to join session co-chairs, Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) and Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) to present their talks on: "Organizing Science Knowledge for Discovery at NASA." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_20 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 13-Mar-2008 - Mr. James Bryce Clark from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) gave a talk entitled: "Practical lurches towards semantic interoperability: standards mash-ups in production and in development." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_13 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 06-Mar-2008 - Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac and Dr. Yalin Yarimagan from the from the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) were our invited speakers. They gave a talk entitled: "Semantic Support for Electronic Business Document Interoperability." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_06 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 28-Febuary-2008 - Joint OpenOntologyRepository-OntologySummit2008 Panel Discussion Session with Co-chairs: Dr. LeoObrst (Ontolog, MITRE) and Dr. FrankOlken (NSF) surveying the "Ontology Registry and Repository Technology & Infrastructure Landscape." On the Panel were: Mr. BruceBargmeyer (XMDR, LBNL), Mr. MikeDean (DAML, W3C, BBN), Professor MarkMusen (NCBO, Stanford-BMIR), Mr. FarrukhNajmi (OASIS ebXML RegRep, Wellfleet Software) and Mr. PeterYim (Ontolog, CIM3). Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_28 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 21-Febuary-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 4th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. GioraHadar (FAA) and Dr. MichaelKull (NRC) were invited to join session chair, Ms. JeanneHolm (NASA/JPL) to present on: "How Knowledge Management Supports Decision Making in the (US) Federal Government." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_21 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 14-February-2008 - Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Ontology Applications in Emergency Response (Take-2)" - Session co-chairs: Mr. RexBrooks & Dr. BobSmith, along with panelists: Ms. ElysaJones, Mr. DavidWebber and Ms. MichelleRaymond jointly put forth their position: "Resolved: Effective Emergency Response Management Requires Ontology as an Organizing Principle, and Ontology Applications in Practice" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_14 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 07-Feb-2008 - The Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR OntologySummit2008, entitled: "Toward An Open Ontology Repository" was officially launched, at this virtual event chaired by Dr. Steven Ray (NIST). Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_07 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 31-Jan-2008 - Professor Dr. John Bateman from the University of Bremen (Germany) was our invited speaker. He and his colleagues gave a talk entitled: "Ontology Structuring Mechanisms and Ontological Modularity: ongoing research and targeted applications" on work by himself (Prof. Dr. JohnBateman), Dr. TillMossakowski, Dr. OliverKutz and Ms. JoanaHois. Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_31 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 24-Jan-2008 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 12th and final session of the Ontolog "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Holger Knublauch, Vice President for product development at TopQuadrant was our invited speaker for the event. Dr. Knublauch gave a talk entitled: "Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_24 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 17-January-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 3rd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. TomSoderstrom (NASA/JPL), Ms. JeanneHolm (NASA/JPL) (Session Chair) & Ms. MarcelaOliva were invited to prsesent on the topic: "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_17 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 10-January-2008 - Ontolog had a Presentation and Panel Discussion, entitled: "Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics: Lessons Learned" with Panelists: Mr. MarcWine (co-chair), Mr. RexBrooks (co-chair), Dr. MichaelCummens & Professor SaulRosenberg. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_10 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 13-Dec-2007 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 2nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. PeterYim, Mr. TedGordon, Mr. AdamCheyer, Professor KenBaclawski, Dr. PatrickCassidy, Mr. DuaneNickull, Dr. DeniseBedford & Dr. JerryGlenn were on a panel to discuss: "Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2007_12_13 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 6-Dec-2007 - Professor Mark Musen, Head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and PI of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology research consortium, was our invited speakers. Professor Musen gave a talk on: "If we build it, will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical ontologies." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 ... Audio archives of the session are now available!


 * Thursday, 08-Nov-2007 - A series of activities representing a NASA-Ontolog-KMWG collaboration was launched on this date. Entitled: "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)," this mini-series is co-organized by a team of individuals from various related communities passionate about creating the opportunity for an inter-community, collaborative exploration of the intersection between Ontology, Knowledge Management and Decision Support, that could eventually lead us toward "Better Decision Making." Ms. JeanneHolm, Chief Knowledge Architect of NASA/JPL, and Mr. AndrewSchain, Chief Technology Officer at NASA/HQ spoke and gave us the NASA story on the subject. This virtual event was offered in our normal augmented conference call settings, and simultaneously at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2007_11_08 ... Audio archives of the session are now available!


 * Thursday, 25-Oct-2007 - Ms. Jeanne Holm and Mr. Charles White from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, gave a talk and demonstration on: "Sharing Knowledge in Second Life" in preparation for the NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series, as the pre-OKMDS-series tutorial on getting people ready on the Second Life virtual world. Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_25 ... This marked the first time an Ontolog event was presented both in 'real world' and 'virtual world' settings, thanks to our NASA/JPL friends! ... our 'Second Life' session screen-shots and Audio archives of the session are now available!


 * Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 11-Oct-2007 - Dr. Timothy Redmond, Chief Architect of Protégé from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and Mr. Peter Yim, CEO of CIM3 were our invited speakers. They presented on: "CODS  a Collaborative Ontology Development Service & Infrastructure" and "Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_11 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 4-Oct-2007 - Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Protégé team was our invited speaker. She presented a talk on: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_04 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 6-Sep-2007 - Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software will be our invited speaker and gave us an update on SUMO in his talk entitled: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology at Age 7: Progress and Promise". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 23-August-2007 - Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) was our invited speaker, who gave a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!

information and records management.
 * Ontolog presented two panels at the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63 (2007.07.17 & 18, at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA):
 * 2007.07.17 - with this first panel, we used OntologySummit2007 as a case, to share lessons learned in organizing delivering a collaborative virtual community initiative like it, and how that knowledge can be captured and preserved.
 * 2007.07.18 - with the second panel, we made a compelling argument on the role of ontologies in
 * preparation work archived at: OntologySummit2007_FollowUp/CewPanel


 * Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - ChrisPartridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 28-Jun-2007 - We had the 8th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - The session was co-chaired by Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Susie Stephens. Dr. [[SouripriyaDas]] and Dr. [[MelliyalAnnamalai]] from Oracle were their invited speakers who gave a talk on: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 10-May-2007 - Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 7th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the City University of New York was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_05_10 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * The "Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions" initiative held its face-to-face workshops and symposium on April 23 & 24, 2007 at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. Remote participation is supported too. Please refer to details for each of the sessions below:
 * 2007.04.23 Monday am (EDT) - Session-1: OntologySummit2007_Framework_Session
 * 2007.04.23 Monday pm (EDT) - Session-2: OntologySummit2007_Population_Session
 * 2007.04.24 Tuesday am (EDT) - Session-3: OntologySummit2007_Communique_Session
 * 2007.04.24 Tuesday pm (EDT) - Session-4: OntologySummit2007_Symposium ("The Summit Meeting" proper) ... audio archive for this session is available now!
 * Please review the OntologySummit2007_Communique released by the conveners and endorsed by some 50 individuals.
 * see pictures from the April 23 & 24, 2007 face-to-face meetings
 * Audio archives of the sessions are also available! (See section at the bottom of each sesion cited above.)


 * Thursday, 12-April-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 6th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 29-March-2007 - Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) presented the 5th Event in the Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR "Ontology Evaluation & Measurement" Mini-Series - this was a panel session on the subject of "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" - Panelists: Professor Kenneth Baclawski, Professor Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, Dr. Paulo Costa & Dr. Terry Janssen ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_29 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 8-March-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 5th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Adrian Walker, CTO of Reengineering LLC., was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Usability, Databases and Ontologies" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_08 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 1-March-2007 - Dr. Tom Gruber, the ex-Stanford scientist who defined the term "ontology" in the sense we apply to its use in computer science, artificial intelligence and the semantic web these days, was our invited speaker. Dr. Gruber's talk was on: "Grande Challenges for Ontology Design" ... Please refer to details. at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_01 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 22-February-2007 - Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) presented the 4th Event in the Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR "Ontology Evaluation & Measurement" Mini-Series - Professor Michael Gruninger (University of Toronto) and Mr. Conrad Bock (NIST) were our invited speakers. They gave their talk on "Evaluating Reasoning Systems: Ontology Languages" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_02_22 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 8-February-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 4th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Mr. Martin O'Connor, an EHR Systems Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics gave an invited talk on "Efficiently Querying Relational Databases using OWL and SWRL" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 25-January-2007 - Ontolog Scheduled Discussion - Ontology Applications in Emergency Response Panel - Co-Organizers: RexBrooks / BobSmith - Panelists: RexBrooks, BobSmith, MichelleRaymond & KenBaclawski ... Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_25 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 18-January-2007 - OntologySummit2007 project kick-off & planning session - co-moderators: SteveRay / LeoObrst / PeterYim ... Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 11-January-2007 - Professor Werner Ceusters, from the Ontology Research Group (ORG) of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), presented to the community his talk entitled: "Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories" as the 3rd event in the "Ontology Measurement & Evaluation" Mini-Series ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_11 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 4-January-2007 - we presented the 3rd Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Ms. Elisa Kendall, CEO and Founder of Sandpiper Software was our invited speaker again. She presented a talk on "The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Motivation & Brief Introduction" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_04 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 21-December-2006 - Professor Barry Smith, from the University at Buffalo (New York, US) presented to the community his talk entitled: "Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation" as the 2nd event in the "Ontology Measurement & Evaluation" Mini-Series ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_12_21 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 14-December-2006 - Professor Christopher Chute, MD [[DrPH]], from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Rochester, MN, US) presented his invited talk entitled: "The Lexical Grid Project: LexGrid" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_12_14 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 30-November-2006 - Ontolog Scheduled Discussion - Ontology Applications & Implementations (Take-II) - Co-Organizers / Moderators: Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) / Mr. Kurt Conrad (Sagebrush Group) with Panelists: Mr. Peter O'Kelly (Burton Group), Mr. John [[McGrath]] (Fast Search), Mr. Gunar Penekis (Adobe Systems) and Mr. Roger Sippl (Above All Software) ... Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_11_30 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 16-November-2006 - Mr. Peter Yim (CEO of CIM3) will be gave a tutorial on: "A Guide to Collaborating at Ontolog: Sharing files, discussions and the wiki on the Ontolog collaborative work environment" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: TutorialSession_2006_11_16


 * Thursday, 16-November-2006 - we will be presenting the 2nd Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Matthew West (Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited) presented his invited talk entitled: "From Ontology to Data Model: Choices and Design Decisions" as the 2nd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2006_11_16 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 02-Nov-2006 conference call was devoted to (a) testing out a new conference calling service (which supports both landline and skype calls); (b) Ontolog community planning, and (c) coordinating the ONION project startup within the Ontolog community. ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_11_02 ... Audio archives of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 26-October-2006 - Dr. Pat Hayes from the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ("IHMC") was our invited speaker. His presentation was entitled: "A logic for ontology interoperation" where he talked about "Common Logic (CL) and its extension, IKL" - a system of logical notations and formalisms that can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange. CL is currently going through ISO approval to become "ISO Common Logic". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_10_26 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, 19-October-2006 - Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR "Ontology Measurement & Evaluation" Mini-Series Kick-off Session - Moderator / Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) / Dr. Christopher A. Welty (IBM Research) - please refer to details on the session wiki page at: Thursday ConferenceCall_2006_10_19 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, October 12, 2006 - Ontolog "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series Kick-off Session - Moderator / Panelists: Dr. Matthew West (Shell), Dr. Tatiana Malyuta (CUNY) & Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE) ... Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_10_12 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * We solicited members of the community to help identify and rank that they consider the top 5 ontology driven applications - Results were compiled; and we have submitted this assessment, on request from SICoP as part of our input to their compliation which will be released at the 5th Semantic Interoperability for eGovernnment Conference. (-BobSmith / KurtConrad /2006.10.06).


 * Thursday, October 5, 2006 - Ontolog Community Planning Session (Facilitator: KurtConrad) - Thursday ConferenceCall_2006_10_05 ... proceedings and Audio archive of the session are now available! (note that the audio recording are for archival purposes and has not been made available on podcast!)


 * Thursday, September 14, 2006 - Professor Alan Rector, from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) presented to the community his talk entitled: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_09_14 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Thursday, August 17, 2006 - Dr. York Sure, Assistant Professor at the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and currently visiting researcher at Stanford University (USA), presented to the community his talk entitled: "What does Sparkling Wine have to do with Semantics?" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_08_17 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!

Oriented Architecture". Expert panelists invited to brief the session will include Mr. Ron Schmelzer (Zapthink), Dr. Ken Laskey (MITRE) and Ms. Rebekah Metz (Booz Allen Hamilton) ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_08_10 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!
 * Thursday, August 10, 2006 - Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Rex Brooks (Starbourne Communications) are organizing and will be moderating our scheduled discussion on the topic: "Ontologies and Service


 * We had our 3rd Ontolog Face-to-Face meetings July 23~26, 2006. As was the case last time, we were holding it in conjunction with the year's 9th International Protégé Conference. The main venue for the event was at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Our theme this year wass: "Natural, Semi-Formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas." We had a full-day workshop on July 23, participated at the Protégé Conference proper, made a visit to the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center on July 25, and held other social events. ... Please refer to details and proceedings on the wiki page at OntologWorkshop_July_2006


 * Dr. Patrick Cassidy of MITRE presented on Thursday, July 13, 2006, his talk entitled: "Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog" ... Please refer to details in the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_07_13 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. E. Michael Maximilien from IBM Research organized and moderated our scheduled discussion Thursday July 6, 2005 on the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session-2 - Tools, Techniques, and Approaches Panel". Panelists featured in the session included Dr. John 'Boz' Handy-Bosma (IBM Global Services), Mr. Conor Shankey (Visual Knowledge), Mr. W. Scott Spangler (IBM Research) and Mr. Peter Mika (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_07_06  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Timothy Redmond from Stanford Medical Informatics was the invited speaker for our Thursday, June 29, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Developing Applications in Protégé: The Protégé Plugin Architecture" for those of us in the community who are, or are planning to, develop ontology-based applications ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_29 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Professor Bob Smith (Cal State U & Tall Tree Labs), Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank) and the OntologTaxoThesaurus team will be running a scheduled work session Thursday June 15, 2005 to allow knowledge engineers and domain experts to confer and help categorize 'concepts' extracted from Ontolog's knowledge content, as part of the effort in the overall OntologTaxoThesaurus project, which is a part of the overall "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" exercise. Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_15


 * Dr. Matthew West from Shell returned on Thursday, June 1, 2006, to present a talk on "Integrating Data or Ontologies - A look at the ISO 18876 Architecture" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_01  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. David Ferrucci, a Sr. Manager from IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center and the Chief Architect for UIMA, presented his talk on Thursday, May 11, 2006, entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution"  ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_05_11  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Adam Cheyer a Program Director in SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center presented Thursday, May 4, 2006 on: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes" ... Details available on the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_05_04  ...  Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Jack Park (SRI) and Dr. Patrick Durusau (NCITS/V1) will be presented to the community on Thursday, April 27, 2006. Their talk is entitled: "Avoiding Hobson's Choice In Choosing An Ontology". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_04_27  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank) returned and moderated a Panel Discussion on "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion session 1 - Framing the Issues, Requirements and Approach" on Thursday, April 20, 2006. Panelists included Mr. Peter Yim (CIM3), Ms. Lisa Colvin (Genentech), Dr. Bob Smith (CSU / Tall Tree Labs), Mr. Patrick Heinig (EPA) and Dr. E. Michael Maximilien (IBM). ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_04_20 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Denise Bedford of the World Bank spoke to the community on Thursday, April 13, 2006. Her talk was entitled: "Strategy for Developing an Ontology - First Steps" ... This session is the first of the series of events mentioned above. Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_04_13 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Ontolog Forum rolled out a series of events (talks and discussion sessions) between April 13 and July 26, 2006 that revolve around the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" during which this community explored the "what's" and "how's" to the development of a semantically interoperable application, using the improved access to the community knowledge of Ontolog as a case in point. ... see OntologizingOntolog and the rest of the events for this series archived below:


 * UpperOntologySummit successfully concluded with the release of a Joint Communiqué (15-Mar-2006) - As part the NIST Interoperability Week (Mar. 13~17, 2006), Ontolog and NIST co-organized the UpperOntologySummit which successfuly concluded on March 15, 2006. See: proceedings of the Upper Ontology Summit and the Joint Communiqué released at the Upper Ontology Summit meeting. ... Audio archives of the upper ontology custodians' presentations are now available!


 * Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey will be presenting to the community on Thursday, March 2, 2006. Her talk is entitled: "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_03_02  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and custodian of the ISO-15926 specification, presented to the community on Thursday, February 23, 2006. His talk was entitled: "An Introduction to 4 Dimensionalism and ISO 15926" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_02_23  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Nicola Guarino from the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Italy will be presenting to the community on Thursday, February 2, 2006. His talk is entitled: "Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience." DOLCE - a Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering - is an initiative lead by Dr. Guarino and is one of the leading Upper Ontologies available. ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_02_02  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Jan. 25, 2006 - Podcast to the audio archives of the recorded Ontolog speaker and discussion events became available - Thanks to EMichaelMaximilien who led the initial effort - see above


 * Dr. Leo Obrst from MITRE presented to the community, in two sessions on Thursday, January 12 and 19, 2006. His talk was entitled: "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 ... Audio archive of both sessions are now available!


 * Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems) and Mr. Kurt Conrad (Sagebrush Group & Ontolog co-convener) lead another scheduled discussion Thursday Dec. 15, 2005. On the panel were: Dr. LeoObrst (MITRE), Dr. ItzhakRoth (Unicorn) and Dr. AdrianWalker (Reengineering). This session was devoted to the topic of "Ontology Applications and Implementations". Please refer to the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_12_15 for the proceedings ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. James Spohrer, Director of Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center was our invited speaker for December, and presented to the community on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. The title of his talk was: "Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 session page  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Douglas B. Lenat, President & CEO of Cycorp was our invited speaker for November, 2005. Dr. Lenat presented to the community on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 in a talk entitled: "CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineering" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_11_17 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Brand Niemann, from the US Environmental Protection Agency and Chiarman of SICoP, moderated a Joint SICoP-Ontolog Panel Discussion on "eGovernment-related Ontology Community Efforts -- Differentiation and Synergy". On the panel were: PeterBrown (EU), SuziLewis (cBiO), BarrySmith (NCOR), PeterYim (Ontolog), PatCassidy (ONTACWG/COSMO), MarcWine (HITOP) and SteveRay (NIST). ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_11_10 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Bob Smith, Professor Emeritus of California State University, moderated a Take-II (as a follow-up to our 2005.08.25 session) of the Panel Discussion on "Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects". This event took place on Nov. 3, 2005 and devoted more time to interactive discussion among the panelists (MarkMusen, ChristopherChute, ConradBock, MarcWine, DavidWhitten and BrandNiemann) and participants, and covered some of the issues that we did not get a chance to treat properly at the last session. ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_11_03 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Nicolas Rouquette from NASA/JPL moderated our Technical Discussion on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005. The topic discussed was: "Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard". A panel including DavidMartin (OWL-S), JohnDomingue (WSMO), AmitSheth (WSDL-S) and MichaelGruninger (SWSF / FLOWS), were on the panel to help open the discussion. Between our panelists and experts in the audience, we collectively delved into the various perspectives and approaches being taken by the state-of-the-art researchers on the subject matter. We tried to make some sense of the current situation, and even suggested where things should possibly be heading. Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_10_20 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Professor Barry Smith from State University of New York at Buffalo will be presenting to the community on Thursday, October 13, 2005. His talk is entitled: "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 session page ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Jon Bosak from Sun Microsystems presented to the community, in a joint session with the US federal government Collaborative Expedition Workshop at the National Science Foundation (Ballston, VA), on Friday, September 23, 2005. His talk was entitled: "Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documents" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_09_23  ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Ms. Elisa F. Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. presented to the community on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2005. Her talk was entitled: "The Model Driven Semantic Web  Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_09_08 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Rex Brooks from HumanMarkup.org organized and moderating our Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005 discussion session, with our expert panel: BobSmith, BrandNiemann, DavidWhitten, MarcWine, MarkMusen and RamSriram. The topic was "Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland did a "Semantic Web Q & A" session with the community on Thursday August 11, 2005. ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_08_11 session page ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) presented to the community on Thursday, July 14, 2005. His talk was entitled: "The maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborations" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_07_14 session page ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Professor William E. [[McCarthy]] from Michigan State University will be moderating our Thursday, June 30, 2005 technical discussion session. Our expert panel included: DuaneNickull, GeorgeBrown and MichaelGruninger. The topic will be "Ontological Implications of Service Oriented Architecture". Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2005_06_30 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * 2005.06.29 - the Ontolog Community adopted a motion to nominate Mark Musen, M.D. Ph.D., Head of Stanford Medical Informatics and the Protégé project, as a candidate to the 17-member Advisory Committee of the American Health Information Community (AHIC) that is being set up by the US Federal Department Health and Human Services. This commission is expected to develop a process for selecting standards and an architecture for the National Health Information Network. On the coordination of BobSmith, our nomination letter was officially sent to NCO/HHS on 2005.08.01. Unfortunately, our nominee did not make it onto the AHIC commision. See: NominationToAHIC


 * Mr. David Whitten and Mr. Chris Richardson from WorldVistA gave a talk entitled: "The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Model" on Thursday, June 16, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_06_16 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Ms. Monica Martin from Sun Microsystems gave a talk entitled: "Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoning" on Thursday, May 26, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_05_26 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Mark Greaves from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ("DARPA") will be giving a talk entitled: "The Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPA" on Thursday, May 12, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_05_12 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Nicolas Rouquette from NASA/JPL, again, moderated our Thursday, Apr. 28, 2005 technical discussion session. The topic was "Ontologies and Tagging". For background, resources and notes from the discussion, please refer to the session wiki page at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_28 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Dr. Michael Uschold from Boeing gave a talk entitled: "Semantic Filtering" on April 21, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_04_21 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!


 * Mr. Kurt Conrad, our co-conveners, moderated our 2nd OntologDiscussion session on Mar. 31, 2005. The Technical Topic of: "Issues Associated with Converting Ontologies Between Representations (especially via Protégé imports and exports)" was being discussed. Refer to details at: ConferenceCall_2005_03_31 & OntologDiscussion/OntologiesConversion ... Session Recording is now available!


 * Professor William E. [[McCarthy]] from Michigan State University will be giving a talk entitled: "The Integration of an Accounting Domain Ontology (REA) with an Upper Ontology (SUMO)" on March 17, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_03_17 ... Session Recording is now available!


 * Dr. Nicolas Rouquete from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology will be moderating our upcoming inaugural technical discussion session scheduled for Feb. 24, 2005. The topic was on "Ontologies and Meta-Ontologies: practical considerations". Refer to details on: OntologDiscussion/MetaOntologies_And_Ontologies ... Session Recording is now available!


 * Mr. Duane Nickull from Adobe Systems gave a talk entitled: "Sky Captain and the Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model of Tomorrow" on Feb. 17, 2005. See: ConferenceCall_2005_02_17 ... Session Recording is now available!


 * Mr. Conrad Bock from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology gave a virtual presentation on "PSL and Flow Models" on Jan. 27, 2005. See: ConferenceCall_2005_01_27 ... ... Session Recording is now Available!


 * Professor Mark Musen head of the Protege Project & of the Stanford Medical Informatics department gave the talk entitled: "Building ontologies from the ground up: When users set out to model their professional activity" on Thu Dec. 9, 2004. See: ConferenceCall_2004_12_09 ... Session Recording is available


 * AdamPease and PeterYim made a presentation, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum, at the EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" Panel Session, Wed Dec. 1, 2004. The presentation was titled: "Explicit Semantics for Business Ontology - an interim report from the ontolog forum". See: ConferenceCall_2004_12_01 They were supported by KurtConrad (onsite), LeoObrst and SteveRay (participating remotely) during the session. ... Session Recording is now Available!


 * Dr. Christopher Welty from the IBM Watson Research Center was our invited speaker Thu Nov. 18, 2004. Chris actually called in from the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento, Italy, where he is working with NicolaGuarino now, and gave the talk entitled: "An Overview of OntoClean". See: ConferenceCall_2004_11_18 ... Session Recording is available


 * Professor Christopher Menzel of Texas A&M University gave a talk on: "SCL: A Logic Standard for Semantic Integration" Thu Nov. 4, 2004. See: ConferenceCall_2004_11_04 ... Session Recording is available


 * Mr. Mark Palmer from NIST gave a talk on their eBSC (eBusiness Standards Convergence) forum initiative Tue Oct. 26, 2004. See: ConferenceCall_2004_10_26


 * Dr. Michael Gruninger from NIST gave a presentation on "The Process Specification Language (PSL): Principles and Applications" at the ConferenceCall_2004_09_16.


 * The [ontolog] community had their 2nd face-to-face gathering, and a series of workshops and meeting in Washington DC during July 2004. See: OntologWorkshop_July_2004


 * Dr. Steven R. Newcomb presented to the community "Ontological Engineering and the Topic Maps Reference Model" during our ConferenceCall_2004_06_10


 * Mr. Peter Yim gave a presentation entitled "Shared Understanding - Standards, Ontologies & Collaboration" at the ConferenceCall_2004_05_20


 * Dr. Brand Niemann gave a presentation on "Harmonizing Semantics in E-Government" at our ConferenceCall_2004_04_22 ... Session Recording is available


 * Dr. Patrick Cassidy gave a presentation on the ProtegeKIF project during our ConferenceCall_2004_03_11


 * Dr. Steven Ray of NIST gave a presentation on "NIST's Semantic Approach to Standards and Interoperability" at our ConferenceCall_2004_02_12 ... Session Recording is available


 * Dr. Leo Obrst gave a presentation on "Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Systems" at our Conference Call 2004-01-15


 * First [ontolog] Meeting & Workshop: Wed~Fri, Nov. 5~7, 2003, San Francisco, California, USA. This first face-to-face meeting of the Ontolog community was colocated with and hosted by the OASIS UBL Technical Committee meeting. see: OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003


 * Mr. Adam Pease gave a tutorial on "Introduction to Ontology & SUMO". His slides and other resources (including the archived audio stream of the session) are available at Tutorial_2003-05-29.

Membership

 * The ONTOLOG community has been around for more than 10 years now. We currently have over 800 members in the community, coming from over 30 different countries (more than 120 locations) around the world. Our announcement list (which is subscribed to by both members, as well as non-members who want are kept posted on our community events) has more than 2000 subscribers. The Ontolog website currently gets about half-a-million page views each month.


 * New Members
 * this is an OPEN, virtual Community of Practice ("CoP"), operated by the community itself
 * anyone who would want to participate and contribute in accordance with this CoP's charter, and consents to abide by its IPR policy, contribution guidelines and other by-laws which the community shall set-forth, is welcomed to join. To date, there is no fee or cost to participate, except that members are expected to be team players and contribute to our mission as much as, and in whatever way they can.
 * all members should use their real names when transacting in the Ontolog community's collaborative work environment (CWE).
 * to join us, please
 * (a) send an e-mail to [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com] to confirming your desire to join the [ontolog-forum] (please indicate in your email whether you are participating as an active member or as an observer.)
 * (b) completing and submitting our member survey form.
 * if you have questions, please feel free to e-mail anyone of our co-conveners: [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com Peter Yim], [mailto:conrad@SagebrushGroup.com Kurt Conrad] or [mailto:lobrst@mitre.org Leo Obrst].


 * Membership categories - Active Members, Members & Observers (see discussion)


 * Members
 * all members are encouraged to create, populate and maintain thier namesake page on this wiki, so that others in the community can get to know them easily.
 * a member's namesake page should be one with the person name's in WikiWord format (like, Ms. Jane Doe's namesake page would be JaneDoe).
 * refer to the description above to create your namesake page (since it is probably the first time you will be editing on this wiki too.)
 * Contribution Guidelines and Policy:
 * please ensure that your posts are relevant (to our Community Charter), and that it complies with our IPR Policy.
 * unless specifically requested/solicited by other community member(s), please make sure any commercial- or self-promotion material or reference are strictly limited to one's namesake page or a short signature block, and nowhere else as far as our open collaborative work environment is concerned. The co-conveners reserve the right to relocate or remove such material from within the CWE, if deemed inappropriately done, to the extent that it affects the neutrality and commercial free work environment that this CWE is set out to be.
 * The "ontolog-member-survey-0" form is available online at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/ontolog0.html
 * all new members (and those who have not had a chance to complete it) are requested to complete and submit this survey form
 * Here are some of the responses received to our member-survey (only periodically updated).
 * A historic membership profile of those who joined us during the first few months of this community was compiled (back in 2003) by KurtConrad based on members' self-introduction message posts, and/or their survey responses.
 * all members will be subscribed to the [ontolog-forum] mailing list. This is a medium traffic list (even 'high traffic' at times). Members who may feel inundated by the traffic can re-configure their message delivery to the 'digest' or 'no mail' mode (from the default of 'deliver to inbox' mode. One can switch back-and-forth between these modes as often as he/she prefers.)
 * a member may choose to join the various ongoing projects that are run by the community - this takes the form of their getting subscribed to the specific project mailing list, and his/her participation at the project activities (like conference calls and online or off-line project work.)
 * all list traffic will be archived and are publicly available. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/
 * our announcement list, [ontolog-invitation], include both members and non-members. Anyone who wants to be posted on upcoming Ontolog events are welcomed to subscribe themselves by e-mailng: 

Community Process

 * Process will be discussed and adopted among the "active" [ontolog] community members from time to time. "Observers" will not have voting rights to the establishment of the community process. (ref. Sep-02 terms of reference)


 * in the absence of [ontolog] community established process, our process will default to the current OASIS TC Process - see: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php (ref. Sep-02 terms of reference)
 * the start and termination of an ontolog project or subproject should default to the OASIS TC & SC process (where Ontolog "projects" processes will map to OASIS "TC" processes).
 * in essence, a new project needs to be supported by at least 3 members, have a project charter or mission statement, a kick-off conference call (or meeting) and a project home page, to get officially launched.

Publications & Deliverables

 * The Ontolog Community's Response to the UN/CEFACT Core Components Working Group's CCTS (Core Component Technical Specifications) v2.01 solicitation for comments and candidate requirements for the next version -- Memorandum and Report, dated Jan. 21, 2005.
 * The Ontolog Community's open Response to the National Health Information Network RFI (of 2004.11.15), collaboratively authored by the NhinRfi response team, was delivered to the office of Dr. David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, on Jan. 18, 2005.
 * The whitepaper "A Case for the Ontological Expression of E-Business Standards" by KurtConrad, BoNewman and BobSmith, is released at the Dec. 1, 2004 EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" Panel Session (Menlo Park, CA, USA). This paper is based on work of the Ontolog Forum and its [CCT-Representation] project.
 * "Collaborating to Develop an Ontological Basis for E-Business Standards" - presented by PeterYim at the 2nd Ontolog Face-to-face Meeting held at the workshop entitled "Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions", as part of the 7th International Protégé Conference on July 6, 2004 at the National Institute of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA.)
 * "Ontolog - UBL Ontology Project Status Report". Compiled by KurtConrad. First relased on 2003-04-28. The report summarizes the [ontolog-forum]'s progress-to-date and presented to the UBL TC. Full report available at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/pub/report/OntologUBLOntologyProjectReport--KurtConrad_20030428.pdf

Resources

 * see: RecommendedReadingResource
 * tarball of [ontolog-forum] message database can be found under: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/community/ontolog-forum-archive/
 * [ auth: ontolog-member/ontology ]
 * the Protégé wiki - http://protege.cim3.net/wiki/ & http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php

More about Collaborative Work Environments ("CWEs")

 * COMMUNITY WEBBOARD by Nancy Cohen, Open Magazine
 * Our Shared Playground - An Interview with Michael Schrage by Marcia Conner, LiNE Zine
 * Leveraging Effective Collaboration in Communities & Open Distributed Teams by PeterYim of CIM3 (March 2004)
 * Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware by DougEngelbart (June 1992)
 * ... more about wiki's - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
 * ... about Purple Numbers - see: http://ps1.cim3.net/ps.php
 * Since we are using, predominantly, Open Source or Free Software in this CWE, the article: "Understanding Open Source Software" by Mark Webbink, Esq. of Red Hat (published Dec. 31, 2003) should help explain what "open source sofwtare" is, and demystify some of the legal and intellectual property rights issues in software licensing.

Tools

 * ToolsCollaboration
 * in particular, for details on setting up connectivity to our shared-file workspace, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ToolsCollaboration#nidAVL
 * Working with PurpleNumbers - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiProcessGuide#nid189Q
 * Ontolog-cwe (collaborative work environment) site statistics:
 * the  clustrMaps - http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://ontolog.cim3.net
 * site and download traffic - http://ontolog.cim3.net/webalizer/ [ auth: ontolog-member/ontology ]
 * SIGMA Knowledge Engineering Environment (by AdamPease)
 * http://sigma-01.cim3.net:8080/sigma/Browse.jsp?kb=SUMO ; or
 * http://sigma-01.cim3.net:8080/sigma/login.html
 * when prompted for login, the read access authentication pair is: username="user"; password="user" (contact AdamPease for write access)
 * refer to: SUO-KIF Manual and Sigma User Manual
 * note that the inference engine does not constrain answers to the argument type contraints on KIF relations. This is a known problem and may on occasion cause bad results from the inference engine.
 * see also: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigmakee/
 * KSMSA Ontology Browser, by MichalSevcenko - an ontology browser for SUO-KIF, SUMO and WordNet; and supports the multiple language displays of SUMO.
 * Protégé - To download and install, visit http://protege.stanford.edu download page
 * CODS - Collaborative Ontology Development Service - a joint BMIR / CIM3 project to develop the infrastructure to host an open Collaborative Ontology Development Service and Ontology Repository for the ontology community at large- see: ProtegeWiki:CODS
 * A survey on members' views on ontology tools and repository is being conducted
 * this "ontolog-tool-survey-1" form is available online at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/ontolog1.html
 * all new members (and those who have not had a chance to complete it) is requested to fill-out and submit this survey form about ontology-tools they use or prefer
 * see interim survey results at http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2002-11/msg00035.html
 * raw member survey responses can be found at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/survey/data/ontolog1-tools/
 * LeoObrst's recommendation: Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools, by Michael Denny (published November 06, 2002 on xml.com)
 * TemplateProjectPage

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Policy

 * the [ontolog-forum] is chartered to be an OPEN forum. As such, all contribution to this forum by its community membership shall have been made under an open content license, open publication license or one of the free software or open source licenses. (See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free_content)
 * unless otherwise specified, content within the [ontolog-forum] collaborative work environment shall be subject to OpenContent License (OPL), Version 1.0, July 14, 1998 or its successor. (see http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml)
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 * If you have questions about ONTOLOG (after browsing these pages), feel free to email either one of our 3 co-conveners:
 * PeterYim - [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com peter.yim@cim3.com]
 * LeoObrst - [mailto:lobrst@mitre.org lobrst@mitre.org]
 * KurtConrad - [mailto:conrad@sagebrushgroup.com conrad@sagebrushgroup.com]

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