Upper Ontology Summit March 15th at NIST

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IEEE-SUO and CG discussion list members:

Those who have been interested in finding agreement on a Standard Upper Ontology should

be aware that a meeting has been organized to discuss the issues of concern to us, and

possibly to point a path toward making progress.

On March 15, 2006 the Ontolog, NIST and SICoP (along with its two

sub-groups: ONTAC-WG (Ontology and Taxonomy Coordination Working

Group) and COSMO-WG (Common Semantic Model Working Group) are

organizing an "Upper Ontology Summit" ("UOS"). This UOS will be a

panel discussion event to be held in the afternoon of March 15th at

the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in

Gaithersburg, MD, hosted by Dr. Steven Ray of NIST. The workshop

will focus on developing a method and the resources to relate

existing upper ontologies to each other, and to share the

information on this very important effort with the public.

Attendance at the Upper Ontology Summit is free, but attendees must

Registration information is below.

We are especially pleased that we are finally able to bring

together all the key public top-level ontology creators /

custodians (including OpenCyc, SUMO, DOLCE, DOLCE-D&S, BFO,

ISO15926 & PSL) to the same workshop to consider how to

interrelate those ontologies in such a way as to provide a freely

available common ontology that has sufficient detail to precisely

specify meanings of terms and concepts in domain ontologies and

which is compatible with each of the starting upper ontologies.

*Panelists/Speakers*:

Dr. John Bateman - Spatial Cognition

Dr. Patrick Cassidy (SICoP / ONTAC, Mitre, UOS-org-comm)

Dr. Aldo Gangemi - DOLCE-D&S (Description & Situation extensions)

Dr. Michael Gruninger - PSL / ISO 18629

Dr. Nicola Guarino - DOLCE

Dr. Douglas Lenat - OpenCyc

Dr. Brand Niemann (Session Chair, SICoP, EPA, UOS-org-comm)

Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog, Mitre, UOS-org-comm)

Mr. Adam Pease - SUMO

Dr. Steven Ray (Meeting Chair, NIST, UOS-org-comm)

Dr. Barry Smith - BFO (remote, from Europe),

with Dr. Werner Ceusters (ECOR)

Dr. Matthew West - ISO 15926-2

More details (developing) on this Upper Ontology Summit event is

available at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit

*Date/Venue details*:

Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2006

1 pm ~ 5 pm EST - The "Upper Ontology Summit" Panel Session

Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray, NIST

The purpose of this panel is to bring together those who

recognize the value of open upper ontologies, and in particular,

the custodians (developers or maintainers) of the public versions

of existing upper ontologies to find a way to interrelate those

ontologies in such a way as to provide a freely available common

ontology that has sufficient detail to precisely specify meanings

of terms and concepts in domain ontologies and which is

compatible with each of the starting upper ontologies. Key

drivers and benefits of such endeavor will be explored in detail.

This session is open to the public.

The sessions are accessible both on-site at NIST (Gaithersburg,

Maryland, USA) as well as through remote dial in.

More details regarding on-site attendance is available at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics

Dial-in information will be posted closer to the time of the

event. (Please be on the look out for further announcements.)

The entire Upper Ontology Summit session will be recorded and

made available as open content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR

policy (see:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).

I look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass

this announcement along to those who might be interested to

participate and contribute to the discussion. All are welcomed.

*Registration*: [IMPORTANT DATES, please note!]

On-site attendees *must register with NIST* on/before Monday,

March 6, 2006 to enter their facilities. Online registration is

available at: https://rproxy.nist.gov/CRS/conf_ext.cfm?conf_id=1536

(No on-site registration will be accepted. See also:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics#nidK7W)

Note also that the special hotel rates for rooms blocked off for

this event will only apply if you make your reservation on/before

this Friday, Feb. 24, 2006. See details at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit/MeetingLogistics#nidK81

Remote attendees should e-mail Peter Yim at <peter.yim@cim3.com> offline

on/before Saturday, March 11, 2006.

P.S. This "Upper Ontology Summit" is being organized as part of

the NIST's "Interoperability Week" event. Members of the

community are invited and encouraged to participate in other

meetings that are being held at the NIST the same week. Please

refer to details at:

http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm

******* Reference Links ******************

Ontolog - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB

SICoP - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP#nid2YPR

ONTAC-WG -

http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG#nid2QJO

COSMO-WG - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CosmoWG#nid306M

NIST - http://nist.gov

NIST Interoperability Week -

http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/index.htm