OntologySummit2010

= Ontology Summit 2010: Creating the Ontologists of the Future =

5th in the series of a 3-month annual event by and for the Ontology Community. This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO & IAOA

See the OntologySummit2010_Communique

What's New:

 * 2010_04_15 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010 review and follow-up action planning session - Co-chair: SteveRay &amp; FabianNeuhaus - ConferenceCall_2010_04_15  


 * The OntologySummit2010_Symposium concluded successfully with a unanimous endorsement of the OntologySummit2010_Communique
 * see: some pictures from day-2 of the OntologySummit2010_Symposium (face-to-face workshop)


 * 2010_03_15 & 16 - Monday and Tuesday: OntologySummit2010_Symposium (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA)
 * Venue, Registration, Dial-in and other Logistics detail - see: OntologySummit2010/WorkshopRegistration
 * Remote participation is also supported


 * 2010_03_11 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - community session: Review and Alignment of Draft Deliverables and Final sync-up prior to the symposium - ConferenceCall_2010_03_11  


 * 2010_03_04 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-5: "Synthesizing the Community Input" - ConferenceCall_2010_03_04  


 * 2010_02_11 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - "Quality" Panel Session-4: "Template for Ontology Training Programs" - Co-chairs: BarrySmith &amp; FabianNeuhaus - Panelists: DagobertSoergel, BillAndersen, NicolaGuarino &amp; MichaelGruninger - ConferenceCall_2010_02_11  


 * 2010.02.04 - Surveys and Real-Time Delphi Study Launched - see: OntologySummit2010_Survey
 * see invitation at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-invitation/2010-02/msg00004.html
 * follow-up: We need your opinion and insights (and, more responses to all the 3 surveys/studies) ... see the solicitation message that Dr. AmandaVizedom has just released ... and go to the OntologySummit2010_Survey page to respond to the surveys/studies that apply to you!
 * collection of input from the community is now closed (as of end Thu 2010.02.25) ... findings and a preliminary syntheses of the results will be presented during ConferenceCall_2010_03_04


 * 2010_02_04 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-3: "Training Requirements for Ontologists" - Chair: AmandaVizedom - Panelists: DeniseBedford, MichaelUschold, MikeBennett, JohnSowa - ConferenceCall_2010_02_04


 * 2010_01_14 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-2: "Training Content for Future Ontologists" - Co-chair: MichaelGruninger &amp; LeoObrst - Panelists: BarrySmith, ChristopherMenzel, PierreGrenon, RobertStevens &amp; AldoGangemi - ConferenceCall_2010_01_14


 * 2010.01.13 - The (first of three) Survey on "Present ontology education/training content and quality" is released. We solicit responses from those in the community who are providing education and training to ontologists or ontology-related disciplines - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-invitation/2010-01/msg00004.html


 * 2009_12_17 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Panel Session-1: "Surveying the Landscape and the Possibilities" - ConferenceCall_2009_12_17


 * 2009.12.16: Discussion Pages dedicated to each Track created


 * 2009.12.16: Event Calendar posted


 * 2009_12_10 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2009_12_10  


 * 2009_11_05 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010 Community Input &amp; Planning Session - co-chair: SteveRay &amp; BarrySmith - ConferenceCall_2009_11_05


 * Organization work is now on its way - at: OntologySummit2010/GettingOrganized and OntologySummit2010_PertinentQuestions


 * The 2010 NIST Interoperability Week is going to be on the week of 15-Mar-2010
 * Our 2-day OntologySummit2010_Symposium has now been scheduled for March 15 & 16, 2010 (Monday and Tuesday), and, like the previous years, it will be held at the NIST campus at Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

Objective:
Theme: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future"

Description, Goals & Objectives:

 * Increasingly, major national and international projects centered on ontology technology are being advanced by governments and by scientific and industrial organizations. This brings a growing need for ontology expertise and thus for new methods and institutions for the training of ontologists. The 2010 Ontology Summit will explore strategies to address this need in terms of curriculum, establishment of new career tracks, role of ontology support organizations and funding agencies, as well as training in the analysis and comparison of methodologies for designing, maintaining, implementing, testing and applying ontologies and associated tools and resources.

Process & Deliverables
Similar to our last 4 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 on Mon & Tue, 15 & 16-March-2010 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.)

Discussion:

 * Content Track:
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentContent_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentContent_Synthesis (maintained by ArturoSanchez and AntonyGalton)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureContent_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureContent_Synthesis (maintained by LeoObrst and MichaelGruninger)


 * Quality Track:
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentQuality_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentQuality_Synthesis (maintained by ArturoSanchez and AntonyGalton)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureQuality_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureQuality_Synthesis (maintained by BarrySmith, NicolaGuarino and FabianNeuhaus)


 * Requirements Track:
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentRequirements_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_PresentRequirements_Synthesis (maintained by Track AmandaVizedom)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureDevelopments_CommunityInput (open)
 * OntologySummit2010_FutureDevelopments_Synthesis (maintained by Track ElizabethFlorescu and PeterYim)


 * Summit Communique:
 * OntologySummit2010_Communique/Draft (maintained by the communique editors)
 * OntologySummit2010_Communique (maintained by the lead editor)


 * Online Forum - active discussion is also carried on over the [ ontology-summit ] mailing list - see details here
 * When starting a new thread on the list, please prefix the subject line with one of the following track labels:
 * [CONTENT], or
 * [CONTENT-Present]
 * [CONTENT-Future]
 * [QUALITY], or
 * [QUALITY-Present]
 * [QUALITY-Future]
 * [REQUIREMENTS], or
 * [REQUIREMENTS-Present]
 * [DEVELOPMENTS-Future]


 * Surveys & RTDelphi Study - OntologySummit2010_Survey

The Team

 * Organizing Committee:
 * AmandaVizedom (discussion track co-champion)
 * AntonyGalton (discussion track co-champion)
 * ArturoSanchez (discussion track co-champion)
 * BarrySmith (general co-chair) (discussion track co-champion) (communique co-lead editor)
 * ElizabethFlorescu (discussion track co-champion)
 * FabianNeuhaus (discussion track co-champion) (communique co-lead editor)
 * LeoObrst (discussion track co-champion)
 * MarkCarlisle
 * MarkMusen
 * MaryBrady
 * MichaelGruninger (discussion track co-champion)
 * NicolaGuarino (discussion track co-champion)
 * PeterYim (discussion track co-champion)
 * SimonFrechette
 * SteveRay (general co-chair)


 * Advisory Committee: ...(by invitation of the Organizing Committee)
 * AlanRuttenberg
 * AldoGangemi
 * AmandaVizedom
 * AntonyGalton
 * ArturoSanchez
 * AsumanDogac
 * BarrySmith
 * BobSmith
 * BillMcCarthy
 * CarlosMarcondes
 * CecilLynch
 * ChrisChute
 * ChrisMenzel
 * ChrisPartridge
 * ChrisWelty
 * CitaFurlani
 * ConradBock
 * DavidConnelly
 * DavidLeal
 * DavidPrice
 * DeborahMacPherson
 * DeborahMcGuinness
 * DeniseBedford
 * DougLenat
 * DuaneNickull
 * ElisaKendall
 * ElizabethFlorescu
 * EnricoMotta
 * EvanWallace
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * FrankVanHarmelen
 * FredFreitas
 * GaryBergCross
 * GeorgeStrawn
 * GiancarloGuizzardi
 * HensonGraves
 * HowardMason
 * HuajunChen
 * IanHorrocks
 * IvanHerman
 * JamieClark
 * JeanneHolm
 * JerryGlenn
 * JimDisbrow
 * JimSchoening
 * JimSpohrer
 * JohnBateman
 * JohnSowa
 * JuanziLi
 * KatherineGoodier
 * KathyLaskey
 * KenBaclawski
 * KenLaskey
 * KurtConrad
 * LaureVieu
 * LaurentLiscia
 * LeoObrst
 * MarciaZeng
 * MariaLuizaDeAlmeidaCampos
 * MarkCarlisle
 * MarkGreaves
 * MarkMusen
 * MaryBrady
 * MartinHepp
 * MatthewWest
 * MauricioAlmeida
 * MichaelGruninger
 * MichaelUschold
 * MichelBohms
 * MichelleRaymond
 * MikeBennett
 * MikeDean
 * MitsuhiroOkada
 * NicolaGuarino
 * NigelShaw
 * NilsSandsmark
 * OlivierBodenreider
 * PatHayes
 * PaulBuitelaar
 * PauloCosta
 * PeterBenson
 * PeterBrown
 * PeterHaase
 * PeterYim
 * RalphHodgson
 * RamSriram
 * RexBrooks
 * RichardMarkSoley
 * RickMurphy
 * RiichiroMizoguchi
 * RobAkscyn
 * RobRaskin
 * RudiStuder
 * SimonFrechette
 * StefanDecker
 * StefanoBorgo
 * SteveRay
 * SusanTurnbull
 * TaniaTudorache
 * TedGordon
 * TerryJanssen
 * 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)
 * ( ... see invitation from the OntologySummit2010 Co-chairs and the Organizing Committee)
 * Accuracy&Aesthetics (DeborahMacPherson)
 * Adobe Systems, Inc. (DuaneNickull)
 * The Applied Ontology journal (NicolaGuarino & MarkMusen)
 * (US) Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence (JamesSchoening)
 * Artifact Software (Ron Wheeler)
 * Bremen Ontology Research Group at Bremen University, supported by the faculties of Informatics and Linguistics and the Collaborative Research Center for Spatial Cognition (JohnBateman / TillMossakowski)
 * Department of Library and information Studies, University at Buffalo (DagobertSoergel)
 * Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (BarrySmith)
 * CAESAR Systems Limited (DavidLeal)
 * Cannon Design (DeborahMacPherson)
 * CIM3 (PeterYim)
 * CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory of Applied Ontology (Trento & Rome, Italy) (NicolaGuarino & AldoGangemi)
 * Cycorp (DougLenat)
 * DEL REY Systems & Technology (JeffAbbott, BernardUlozas)
 * DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute (StefanDecker)
 * ECCMA - Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (PeterBenson)
 * EDM Council Inc. (MikeBennett)
 * EIS - EIS Encyclopedic Systems Ltd (EU) & Entsiklopedicheskiye Intellektualniye Systemy (RU) (AzamatAbdoullaev)
 * Eurostep (NigelShaw, DavidPrice)
 * C4I Center, George Mason University (KathrynLaskey)
 * IBM Research (ChrisWelty)
 * Information Junction (MatthewWest)
 * IRSC - Integrated Response Services Consortium (RexBrooks)
 * IAOA - The International Association for Ontology and its Applications (NicolaGuarino, StefanoBorgo)
 * ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 N 1498 - ISO 24707 Common Logic (CL) Working Group (HarryDelugach (editor), PatHayes, ChrisMenzel, JohnSowa, MurrayAltheim, ElisaKendall, et al.)
 * ISO TC 184/SC4 (HowardMason, DavidPrice, DavidLeal)
 * ISO TC 184 SC 4 JWG8 - the ISO working group that developed the ISO 18629 Process Specification Language (PSL) standard (MichaelGruninger)
 * KMi - Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK (EnricoMotta, PierreGrenon)
 * The Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University (BillMcCarthy)
 * The Millennium Project (JerryGlenn, TedGordon & ElizabethFlorescu)
 * MITRE (LeoObrst, PatCassidy)
 * NCBO - (US) 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)
 * School of Computing, University of North Florida (ArturoSanchez)
 * 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 - a.k.a. Ontolog Forum (PeterYim, LeoObrst, KurtConrad)
 * Pensive nv/sa (PeterBrown)
 * PK Technologies (PavithraKenjige)
 * POSC Caesar (NilsSandsmark)
 * Raytheon BBN (MikeDean)
 * RS Enterprises (RaviSharma)
 * The Sagebrush Group (KurtConrad)
 * Sandpiper Software, Inc. (ElisaKendall)
 * SRI International (VinayChaudhri)
 * Starbourne Communications Design (RexBrooks)
 * Steve Ray Consulting (SteveRay)
 * The Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) (MarkMusen)
 * STI International (RudiStuder)
 * Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University (ChrisMenzel)
 * University of Maryland, Baltimore County (TimFinin)
 * University of Toronto (MichaelGruninger)
 * Wind River Consulting LLC (AmandaVizedom, Aaron Cooper)
 * W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (IvanHerman & Ian Jacobs)


 * Conveners:
 * these are key participants who provided substantive contribution to the OntologySummit2010 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 higher education institutions that are providing ontology education, or those planning to do so
 * stakeholders of ontology education and training
 * enablers of ontology education and training
 * researchers in ontology education and training
 * potential user organizations
 * potential funders of ontology and ontological engineering work
 * 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 2010" virtual discourse (as one of the conveners of this initiative),
 * If you are already an Ontolog Member:
 * to participate in the "Ontology Summit 2010" 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

 * Mailing List Discussion Archives:
 * [ontology-summit] - Ontology Summit 2010 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 2010 Organizing Committee List Archives - http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/ (password protected)


 * Shared-File Workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2010/ (open)


 * Key Discussion Pages on the wiki


 * Collection of Resources and Community Contribution Summary workspace on this wiki:
 * OntologySummit2010
 * OntologySummit2010_Communique/Draft

Event Calendar:

 * Thu 2009.12.10 - Launch Event (virtual session)
 * Thu 2009.12.17 - Panel Session-1: "Surveying the Landscape and the Possibilities" (virtual session)
 * Thu 2010.01.14 - Panel Session-2: "Content" Track panel session (virtual session)
 * Thu 2010.02.04 - Panel Session-3: "Requirements" Track panel session (virtual session)
 * Thu 2010.02.11 - Panel Session-4: "Quality" Track panel session (virtual session)
 * Thu 2010.03.04 - draft deliverables review and alignment (virtual session)
 * Thu 2010.03.11 - final community sync-up prior to the symposium (virtual session)
 * Mon & Tue 2010.03.15 & 16 - Summit symposium at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) (face-to-face with remote participation support)

OntologySummit2010 Symposium - 15 & 16-March-2010 - at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

 * See: OntologySummit2010_Symposium


 * Registration, Venue, Remote participation and other Logistic details - see: OntologySummit2010/WorkshopRegistration

Open / Convener Sessions

 * OntologySummit2010 Kick-off - 2009_12_10 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" - Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2009_12_10
 * Pre-launch planning meeting - 2009_11_05 - Thursday: OntologySummit2010 Community Input &amp; Planning Session - co-chair: SteveRay &amp; BarrySmith - ConferenceCall_2009_11_05

Organizing Committee Sessions

 * Thu 2009.11.03 - Second OntologySummit2010 Organizing Committee conference call - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010/GettingOrganized#nid22RP
 * Thu 2009.10.20 - First OntologySummit2010 Organizing Committee conference call - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010/GettingOrganized#nid22QB

Ontology Summit 2010 in the News, Blogosphere & Literature:
 ... (insert content here, latest at the top)


 * "Communiqué: Creating the ontologists of the future" - by FabianNeuhaus, ElizabethFlorescu, AntonyGalton, MichaelGruninger, NicolaGuarino, LeoObrst, ArturoSanchez, AmandaVizedom, PeterYim and BarrySmith - Applied Ontology Journal 6 (2011) 9198 (IOS Press)


 * 2010.02.23 - the OntologySummit2010_Symposium event announcement as seen on the NIST Conference site - http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/100315b.htm


 * Announcements as seen on the NCBO site (by Shauna Kanel) - http://www.bioontology.org/ontolog-forum


 * 2010.02.19 - a blog about the OntologySummit2010_Survey's on his 'INSEMTIVES - Incentives for Semantics' site (by Germán Toro del Valle) - http://blog.insemtives.eu/2010/02/ontologysummit2010-online-surveys/


 * 2010.02.17 - Referral when blogging about her SemWeb Tech (SWT) course (by MariaKeet) - http://keet.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/failure-of-the-experiment-for-the-semwebtech-course/


 * 2010.01.27 - Listing of OntologySummit2010 as a Collaborative Expedition Workshop Resource - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/LeveragingServiceOrientedArchitecture_AdvancingCyberinfastructureCapabilities_2010_01_27#nid42BX


 * 2010.01.25 - "A Study on the 'Future of Ontologists and their Education'" (by PeterYim & ElizabethFlorescu) describing the Real-Time Delphi study effort at the Millennium Project site - http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/ontology.html


 * 2010.01.21 - a Tweet (by FrankOlken) - http://twitter.com/frankolken/status/8037382716


 * 2010.01.18 - Announcement of the OntologySummit2010_Symposium as seen on Language Technology World - http://www.lt-world.org/kb/communication_and_ipr/events/conferences/ltw_conferences.2010-01-18.5890887960


 * 2009.12.07 - Blogged within the Drupal community (by EdDodds) - http://groups.drupal.org/node/38720


 * 2009.12.07 - a Tweet on the OntologySummit2010 Launch Event (by EdDodds) - https://twitter.com/ed_dodds/status/6432100283


 * 2009.11.13 - Announcement seen on the NIH-NCI-caBIG Knowledge Center wiki (posted by Rick Kiefer) - https://cabig-kc.nci.nih.gov/Vocab/KC/index.php/Ontology_Summit_2010


 * 2009.10.30 - Blogged on the Conmergence site (by EdDodds) - http://conmergence.com/blog/?p=16


 * 2009.10.22 - a summary on Ontology Summit 2008 & 2009, with a solicitation for involvement in Ontology Summit 2010 was presented by DeniseBedford at the 2009 Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop - see: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2009workshop/NKOS-CENDI2009.htm


 * Please use " #OntologySummit2010 " as identi.ca and twitter hashtag (elsewhere, too); shortened url: http://bit.ly/OntologySummit2010

Additional Resources

 * Homepage of OntologySummit2009 - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009
 * 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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