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OntologySummit2009: April 6~7, 2009 Symposium (Face-to-Face Workshop)

Theme: Toward Ontology-based Standards

  • Chair: Dr. SteveRay

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Agenda

Monday, April 6, 2009

  • 9:00 am - Welcome, and statement of Summit goals - Steve Ray ... [ slides ] .. [ [ audio] ]
    • Additional ideas:
    • URI governance
    • ISO 19440, Enterprise Integration
  • 12:30 noon - Lunch

all the other ontologies that we already have paid for? Hundreds exist. How is this new project going to impact them? Which ones become obsolete? Which ones are going to be improved or reduced in size with this new project? Which of the owners/authors of the existing government paid-for ontologies are supporting this request? Why are the others not supporting it?"]

    • The need to provide some structure for the discussion, and the ongoing work
  • 4:00 pm - Polling of the best-suited candidate standards/projects to promote (in light of the above issues.
  • Note: We are planning a no-host dinner across the street, at Dogfish Alehouse after the session, probably at 6:00 pm. Microbrewery. Great beers! Hope you can join us.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

  • 12:00 noon - Lunch
  • 3:00 pm - Adjourn

Audio Recording of the Workshop Sessions

  • edited and post-processed audio segment will be posted against the corresponding agenda items above later
  • (for now) the unedited, uncompressed original recordings by the NIST folks can be found here (note that the file sizes are huge!)
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