OntologySummit2009

= OntologySummit2009: Toward Ontology-based Standards =

=== Homepage for the 2009 Ontology Summit ... This summit initiative is co-organized by NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, NCBO, OASIS, OMG, ISO TC 184/SC4, OAGi, STI International & DERI ===


 * Read the OntologySummit2009_Communique

What's New

 * 2009_10_30 - Friday: UoM_Ontology_Standard workshop (full-day, face-to-face, with remote participation support) - Co-chair: FrankOlken, EdBarkmeyer &amp; HowardMason - venue: NSF (Arlington, VA, USA) - see: UoM_Ontology_Standard/Workshop_2009_10_30  


 * 2009_10_08 - 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  


 * 2009_09_24 - Thursday: UoM Panel Discussion: "Strawman for a UoM_Ontology_Standard" - Co-chair: FrankOlken &amp; DavidPrice - Panelists: DavidLeal, ChipMasters, GuntherSchadow, EdBarkmeyer - ConferenceCall_2009_09_24


 * 2009_06_19 - Friday: Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Toward a Units of Measure Ontology" - Chair: FrankOlken - Panelists: StanHuff, DavidPrice, DaveMcComb, RobertDragoset, RobRaskin, PatCassidy, HowardMason &amp; PatHayes - ConferenceCall_2009_06_19


 * 2009_05_14 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 postmortem and follow-up planning - Chair: SteveRay - ConferenceCall_2009_05_14


 * Our OntologySummit2009_Communique has been adopted and released ... A huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped put this important document together!


 * We had two very productive days at the OntologySummit2009 6~7-Apr-2009 Face-to-Face Workshop and Symposium ... proceedings of the sessions are now available at: OntologySummit2009_Symposium


 * Key pre-Summit Workshop Events:
 * 2009_03_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Ontology Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Panelists: BarrySmith, EdwardBarkmeyer, BillMcCarthy and ConradBock - ConferenceCall_2009_03_12
 * 2009_03_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Standards Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: HowardMason - Panelists: MatthewWest, DavidLeal, GeraldRadack, NicolasFigay, DavidShorter and DavidPrice - ConferenceCall_2009_03_19
 * 2009_03_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Toward Ontology-based Standards - A Synthesis" - Chair: SteveRay - Panelists: HowardMason, MichaelGruninger, DavidConnelly, KatherineGoodier, DavidLeal, NicolasFigay - ConferenceCall_2009_03_26


 * Key Content Pages:
 * OntologySummit2009_OntologyCommunityPerspectives
 * OntologySummit2009_StandardsCommunityPerspectives
 * OntologySummit2009_StandardsAndOntologies
 * OntologySummit2009_Communique
 * OntologySummit2009_Communique/Draft


 * 2009_01_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2009_01_15


 * 2008_12_18 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009: "Ontologies as the Next Generation of Information Standards" - Communitywide brainstorming and planning session for our next ontology summit in Spring 2009 - ConferenceCall_2008_12_18


 * we are soliciting ideas for this next summit, comprising 3 months of virtual discourse and events, which will culminate into a communique and a 2-day face-to-face workshop - please post your thoughts to the OntologySummit2009/Idea page or to the [ ontology-summit ] mailing list ... (=ppy/2008.12.16)


 * The following dates are already locked-in (please mark your calendars):
 * 2009_04_06~07 - Monday &amp; Tuesday: OntologySummit2009_Symposium (face-to-face workshop) at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)

Objective
Theme: "Toward Ontology-based Standards" 

Description, Goals & Objectives:
This summit will address the intersection of two active communities, namely the technical standards world, and the community of ontology and semantic technologies. This intersection is long overdue because each has much to offer the other. Ontologies represent the best efforts of the technical community to unambiguously capture the definitions and interrelationships of concepts in a variety of domains. Standards - specifically information standards - are intended to provide unambiguous specifications of information, for the purpose of error-free access and exchange. If the standards community is indeed serious about specifying such information unambiguously to the best of its ability, then the use of ontologies as the vehicle for such specifications is the logical choice.

Conversely, the standards world can provide a large market for the industrial use of ontologies, since ontologies are explicitly focused on the precise representation of information. This will be a boost to worldwide recognition of the utility and power of ontological models.

The goal of this Ontology Summit 2009 is to articulate the power of synergizing these two communities in the form of a communique in which a number of concrete challenges can be laid out. These challenges could serve as a roadmap that will galvanize both communities and bring this promising technical area to the attention of others. Exactly what challenges are chosen is the subject to be debated and decided upon during the electronic discussion period leading up to the face-to-face meeting in April of 2009.

Process & Deliverables
Similar to our last 3 summits, this Ontology Summit will comprise of 3 months of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), and will culminate in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium to be held in the Spring of 2009 at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US) during which we will, among other things, distill our thoughts into a collaboratively developed Communiqué (and possibly even a range of follow-up projects and action items.)

The Team

 * Organizing Committee:
 * AlanRuttenberg
 * AndersTell
 * BarrySmith
 * BillMcCarthy
 * DavidConnelly
 * DavidLeal
 * DavidPrice
 * ElisaKendall
 * EvanWallace
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * FrankOlken
 * HensonGraves
 * HowardMason
 * KatherineGoodier
 * KurtConrad
 * LaurentLiscia
 * LeoObrst
 * MarkCarlisle
 * MarkMusen
 * MatthewWest
 * MichaelGruninger
 * MikeDean
 * NicolaGuarino
 * NilsSandsmark
 * PatHayes
 * PeterBenson
 * PeterBrown
 * PeterYim
 * RexBrooks
 * RudiStuder
 * SimonFrechette
 * StefanDecker
 * SteveRay (General Chair)
 * TrishWhetzel


 * Advisory Committee:
 * AlanRuttenberg
 * AldoGangemi
 * AsumanDogac
 * BarrySmith
 * BillMcCarthy
 * ConradBock
 * ChrisChute
 * ChrisMenzel
 * ChrisWelty
 * DavidConnelly
 * DavidLeal
 * DavidPrice
 * DeniseBedford
 * DougLenat
 * DuaneNickull
 * ElisaKendall
 * EnricoMotta
 * EvanWallace
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * HensonGraves
 * HowardMason
 * IanHorrocks
 * IvanHerman
 * JamieClark
 * JohnBateman
 * JohnSowa
 * KatherineGoodier
 * KenBaclawski
 * KurtConrad
 * LaurentLiscia
 * LeoObrst
 * MarciaZeng
 * MarkGreaves
 * MarkMusen
 * MartinHepp
 * MatthewWest
 * MichaelGruninger
 * MichelBohms
 * MichelleRaymond
 * MikeDean
 * MitsuhiroOkada
 * NicolaGuarino
 * NigelShaw
 * NilsSandsmark
 * OlivierBodenreider
 * PatHayes
 * PaulBuitelaar
 * PeterBenson
 * PeterBrown
 * PeterHaase
 * PeterYim
 * RexBrooks
 * RichardMarkSoley
 * RickMurphy
 * RobRaskin
 * RudiStuder
 * SimonFrechette
 * StefanDecker
 * StefanoBertolo
 * SteveRay (General Chair)
 * TimFinin
 * TimMcGrath


 * Co-Sponsors: ('Co-sponsors' are organizations who are providing technical or funding support, and/or endorsing the purpose (i.e. the objective) of this Ontology Summit)
 * The Applied Ontology journal (NicolaGuarino & MarkMusen)
 * Accuracy&Aesthetics (DeborahMacPherson)
 * BBN (MikeDean)
 * Bremen Ontology Research Group at Bremen University, supported by the faculties of Informatics and Linguistics and the Collaborative Research Center for Spatial Cognition (JohnBateman / TillMossakowski)
 * Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (BarrySmith)
 * CAESAR Systems Limited (DavidLeal)
 * CIM3 (PeterYim)
 * CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory of Applied Ontology (Trento & Rome) (NicolaGuarino & AldoGangemi)
 * Cycorp (DougLenat)
 * DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute (StefanDecker)
 * ECCMA - Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (PeterBenson)
 * EDM Council - Enterprise Data Management Council (MikeBennett)
 * EIS - EIS Encyclopedic Systems Ltd (EU) & Entsiklopedicheskiye Intellektualniye Systemy (RU) (AzamatAbdoullaev)
 * EPISTLE - European Process Industries STEP Technical Liaison Executive, the consortium responsible for the development of ISO 15926 (MatthewWest)
 * Eurostep (NigelShaw, DavidPrice)
 * IBM Research (ChrisWelty)
 * Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) (PatHayes)
 * Information Junction (MatthewWest)
 * IRSC (RexBrooks)
 * ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 N 1498 - ISO 24707 Common Logic (CL) Working Group (HarryDelugach (editor), PatHayes, ChrisMenzel, JohnSowa, MurrayAltheim, ElisaKendall, et al.)
 * ISO TC 184/SC4 (HowardMason, DavidPrice, DavidLeal)
 * ISO TC 184 SC 4 JWG8 - the ISO working group that developed the ISO 18629 Process Specification Language (PSL) standard (MichaelGruninger)
 * The Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University (BillMcCarthy)
 * MITRE (LeoObrst, PatCassidy)
 * NCBO - The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (MarkMusen)
 * NCOR - (US) National Center for Ontological Research (BarrySmith & MarkMusen)
 * The [[NeOn] project] (EnricoMotta, AldoGangemi, PeterHaase)
 * NIST - (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology (SteveRay, SimonFrechette, MarkCarlisle, EvanWallace, FabianNeuhaus)
 * NLM, NIH - (US) National Library of Medicine of the National Institute of Health (OlivierBodenreider)
 * The College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University (LarryFinkelstein, KenBaclawski)
 * OAGi - Open Applications Group (DavidConnelly)
 * OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (LaurentLiscia, PeterBrown, JamieClark, et al.)
 * OASIS Semantic Support for Electronic Business Document Interoperability (SET) Technical Committee (AsumanDogac)
 * OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee (JonBosak & TimMcGrath)
 * OMG - Object Management Group (RichardMarkSoley, ElisaKendall, EvanWallace)
 * Ontolog (PeterYim, LeoObrst, KurtConrad)
 * Pensive.eu (PeterBrown)
 * POSC Caesar (NilsSandsmark)
 * The Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) (MarkMusen, TrishWhetzel)
 * STI International (RudiStuder)
 * Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University (ChrisMenzel)
 * University of Toronto (MichaelGruninger)
 * W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (IvanHerman & Ian Jacobs)


 * Conveners:
 * these are key participants who provided substantive contribution to the OntologySummit2009 initiative through:
 * the online discourse,
 * the research and subsequent synthesis work,
 * authoring/presentation of various relevant positions and perspectives (for this Summit),
 * preparing the drafts of relevant documentation and our Summit "Communique" (which were then collaboratively reviewed and adopted during the face-to-face meetings),
 * participants at the face-to-face meetings (either on-site or remotely), and
 * all members of the organizing committee
 * to these conveners, who made this initiative a reality, we express our deepest appreciation and gratitude.

You are cordially invited to join us!

 * Like all activities Ontolog has been hosting, this is open to everyone.
 * Do join us if you concur with the theme and objective of this endeavor and would like to participate in, or follow the progress of the discourse


 * specific individuals who may be interested include (but not limit to):
 * members of ontology communities
 * members of standards development communities
 * ontology, taxonomy and terminology repository/repository technology developers
 * upper and domain ontology researchers and developers
 * ontology-based application developers and implementors
 * active players in the ontology community
 * potential user organizations
 * potential funders of ontology and ontological engineering work
 * representatives from International Standards Bodies
 * thought leaders and active contributors of the semantic technology community
 * leaders of the semantic web community
 * people in academia, research, industry and the web working on sharing knowledge, semantic interoperability, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence ... who are engaged in the research, development, engineering and implementation of these subject matters


 * Please join us in the "Ontology Summit 2009" virtual discourse (as one of the conveners of this initiative),
 * If you are already an Ontolog Member:
 * to participate in the "Ontology Summit 2009" virtual discourse, please subscribe to the [ontology-summit] forum (the convener's mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
 * to browse the forum archives, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/
 * if you run into any problem, please send your subscription request directly to 
 * If you are not already an Ontolog Member:
 * please take a look at the details in our "Membership" section and (if you like what you see) join us by following the details there.
 * then subscribe yourself to the [ontology-summit] forum (the convener's mailing list) as described above.
 * (alternatively) if you run into any problem, please send your request directly to 

Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace

 * Discussion Archives:
 * [ontology-summit] - Ontology Summit 2009 Convener's discussion Archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/ (open)
 * to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [ontology-summit] forum (the convener's mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
 * [ontology-summit-org] - Ontology Summit 2009 Organizing Committee List Archives - http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/ (password protected)


 * Shared-File Workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2009/ (open)


 * Collection of Resources and Community Contribution Summary workspace on this wiki:
 * OntologySummit2009
 * OntologySummit2009_Communique/Draft

Open / Convener Sessions

 * 2009_10_08 - 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


 * 2009_05_14 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 postmortem and follow-up planning - Chair: SteveRay - ConferenceCall_2009_05_14


 * OntologySummit2009 (F2F) Symposium - 2009_04_06~07 - Monday &amp; Tuesday: OntologySummit2009_Symposium (face-to-face workshop) at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)


 * 2009_03_26 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Toward Ontology-based Standards - A Synthesis" - Chair: SteveRay - Panelists: HowardMason, MichaelGruninger, DavidConnelly, KatherineGoodier, DavidLeal, NicolasFigay - ConferenceCall_2009_03_26


 * 2009_03_19 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Standards Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: HowardMason - Panelists: MatthewWest, DavidLeal, GeraldRadack, NicolasFigay, DavidShorter and DavidPrice - ConferenceCall_2009_03_19


 * 2009_03_12 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Panel Discussion - "Ontology Community Perspectives Toward Ontology-based Standards" - Chair: MichaelGruninger - Panelists: BarrySmith, EdwardBarkmeyer, BillMcCarthy and ConradBock - ConferenceCall_2009_03_12


 * 2009_01_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009 Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2009_01_15


 * Pre-launch planning meeting - 2008_12_18 - Thursday: OntologySummit2009: "Ontologies as the Next Generation of Information Standards" - Communitywide brainstorming and planning session for our next ontology summit in Spring 2009 - ConferenceCall_2008_12_18

Organizing Committee Sessions

 * Thu 2009.02.26 - Third OntologySummit2009 Organizing Committee conference call - OntologySummit2009/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2009_02_26
 * Thu 2009.01.15 - Second OntologySummit2009 Organizing Committee conference call - OntologySummit2009/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2009_01_15
 * Thu 2008.12.18 - First OntologySummit2009 Organizing Committee conference call - OntologySummit2009/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2008_12_18

Ontology Summit 2009 in the News, Blogosphere & Literature:

 * FWIW, some shorter urls (to the Summit Communique) for tweeting, facebook, identi.ca, etc. ... from EdDodds / 2009.04.10
 * http://tinyurl.com/OntologySummit2009-Communique
 * http://bit.ly/OntologySummit2009_Communique
 * http://is.gd/rOt5
 * Twitter hash tag #ontologforum
 * Mike's Digital Laboratory post - MikeAxelrod / 2009.04.09
 * "Data reuse not possible without ontological work, group asserts" - Joab Jackson - GCN / 2009.04.07
 * UMBC ebiguity post - TimFinin / 2009.03.15
 * posts on the OASIS Cover Page: (1), (2) - Robin Cover / 2009.03.04 & 2009.04.13
 * Collaborative Expedition Workshop post - SusanTurnbull / 2009.02.09
 * Conmergence Post - EdDodds / 2009.01.13
 * #OntologySummit2009 tag created for Twitter Tweets

Additional Resources

 * Homepage of OntologySummit2008 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008
 * Homepage of OntologySummit2007 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007
 * Homepage of UpperOntologySummit (2006) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit

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