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	= International Association for Ontology and its Applications ([~~http~~://iaoa.org/ IAOA]) =		= International Association for Ontology and its Applications ([https://iaoa.org/ IAOA]) =

	This is the home page of an '''open community wiki''' for the '''[http://iaoa.org/ International Association for Ontology and its Applications] (IAOA)'''. You can use this wiki for adding ontology related information that you think is relevant for the broader ontology community, even without being a member of the association. There is also a member's only wiki available from the member's area of the association website. Here you can add, for example, events potentially of interests to ontologists, questions, answers, and so on.		This is the home page of an '''open community wiki''' for the '''[http://iaoa.org/ International Association for Ontology and its Applications] (IAOA)'''. You can use this wiki for adding ontology related information that you think is relevant for the broader ontology community, even without being a member of the association. There is also a member's only wiki available from the member's area of the association website. Here you can add, for example, events potentially of interests to ontologists, questions, answers, and so on.
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= International Association for Ontology and its Applications ([http://iaoa.org/ IAOA]) =

This is the home page of an '''open community wiki''' for the '''[http://iaoa.org/ International Association for Ontology and its Applications] (IAOA)'''. You can use this wiki for adding ontology related information that you think is relevant for the broader ontology community, even without being a member of the association. There is also a member's only wiki available from the member's area of the association website. Here you can add, for example, events potentially of interests to ontologists, questions, answers, and so on.

For specific IAOA events, see the IAOA website and
''to join IAOA, click [http://iaoa.org/membership/membership.html here]!''

== What's New ==

* Sep-2013 - '''[[IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2013]]'''

* 2013-04-26 - The IAOA Ordinary Assembly (April 2013) is called to examine and approve the 2012 financial statement and the 2013 previsional budget - see:
[[IAOA_Assembly_2013_04]]

* 2012_07_25 - during [http://www.formalontology.org/ FOIS] 2012, there will be a 2-Hour IAOA Technical Committees and Special Interest Groups (SIG's) meeting, and a 2-Hour General Assembly session on Wed 2012.07.25 - both on-site (F2F) and remote participation are supported - (members) please see access details [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-member/2012-07/msg00061.html#nid02 here].

* 2012_07_24 to 27 - '''[http://www.formalontology.org/ FOIS] 2012''', the flagship event of IAOA, is to be held this year, co-located with "ICBO-2012" in Graz, Austria. - see: http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/fois.htm

* 2012_07_16 to 20 - the First Interdisciplinary '''IAOA Summer School''' on Ontological Analysis - to be held in Trento Italy - see: http://iaoa.org/isc2012/index.php

* 2012_06_19 - Nicola Guarino announced the time-table for the upcoming '''IAOA General Assembly''' and related activities. These include the nomination, campaigning and '''[[IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2012|election of a new Executive Council]]''' (which will take office beginning 2013), '''adoption of the [http://iaoa.org/resources/IAOA-ByLaws-V1_2.pdf IAOA ByLaws]''', and a face-to-face Assembly (25-Jul-2012 5:00~8:00pm CEST) during [http://kr-med.org/icbofois2012/fois.htm FOIS-2012] (in Graz, Austria). Remote participation will be supported. All members are urged to participate!

* 2012_05_25 - Updates to the [http://iaoa.org/iaoaorga/statute/statute.html IAOA statute] were adopted by an '''Extraordinary Assembly''' on 25-May-2012, during which the 2012 Financial Report for the Association was also formally adopted.

* 2011_07_17 to 23 - The first '''IAOA Summer Institute''' on '''Process Ontology''' was held, in cooperation with the [http://www.vespucci.org Vespucci Initiative], in Florence (Firenze), Italy, between . See: http://vespucci.org/programme

* 2011_05_26 - Thursday: [[IAOA]] virtual panel session at the [[Ontolog]] Forum: "'''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|Leo Obrst]] & [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]] - ConferenceCall_2011_05_26

* The IAOA Ordinary Assembly (April 2011) called to examine and approve the 2010 financial report and the 2011 budget - see: [[IAOA_Assembly_2011_04]]

* [http://iaoa.org IAOA] is co-organizing the 2011 '''Ontology Summit''', along with [[NCO_NITRD]], [[NCBO]], [[NCOR]], [[NIST]] and [[Ontolog]]. The theme for this Summit is "Making the Case for Ontology". This is a series of virtual events spanning over three months (20-Jan through 19-Apr-2011) which culminates in a 2-day Symposium at the NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA). See: [[OntologySummit2011|Ontology Summit 2011]] and the [[OntologySummit2011_Communique]]

* At the face-to-face segment of the IAOA First General Assembly on 13-May-2010 (co-located with FOIS-2010 in Toronto, Canada) an '''[http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/pub/IAOA-Assembly-f2f_20100513/IAOA-1st-assembly_20100513c.pdf updated report] on IAOA''' was presented by Dr. Nicola Guarino (President) and other members of the newly elected [http://www.iaoa.org/council/council.html Executive Council].

* Over a virtual segment of the IAOA First General Assembly, an '''elected IAOA Executive Council''' came into being. See details of the process and the results at: [[IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2010]]

* The '''Introduction of IAOA''' at the Ontolog Forum - ConferenceCall_2009_06_18

== About IAOA ==

The '''International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)''' is a non-profit organization the purpose of which is to promote interdisciplinary research and international collaboration at the intersection of philosophical ontology, linguistics, logic, cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge engineering, knowledge management, information-systems development, library and information science, scientific research, and semantic technologies in general.

The Association was formally established in Trento, Italy on April 29th 2009.

'''The official IAOA website''' is at: http://iaoa.org

== Current Members of the IAOA Executive Council (EC) ==

''This Executive Council was elected by the General Assembly in the July [[IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2012]], took office on 1-Jan-2013, with the term of office continuing until 31-Dec-2013.''

* [http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html Michael Gruninger], University of Toronto, Canada ''(President)''
* [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]], [http://www.uni-bremen.de University of Bremen], Germany ''(Vice President)''
* [https://wiki.imise.uni-leipzig.de/FrankLoebe Frank Loebe], [http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/ifi/startseite.html University of Leipzig], Germany ''(Secretary)''
* [http://www.loa-cnr.it/vieu.html Laure Vieu], [http://www.irit.fr/ IRIT-CNRS], France, and [http://www.istc.cnr.it/ ISTC-CNR], Italy ''(Treasurer)''
* [http://www.loa-cnr.it/borgo.html Stefano Borgo], [http://www.istc.cnr.it/ ISTC-CNR], Italy
* [http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/ Giancarlo Guizzardi], Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
* [[OliverKutz|Oliver Kutz]], [http://www.uni-bremen.de University of Bremen], Germany
* [[FabianNeuhaus|Fabian Neuhaus]], [http://www.nist.gov/ NIST], US
* [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]], [http://www.mitre.org/ MITRE], US

== Current Members of the IAOA Advisory Board (AB) ==

* [[AnthonyCohn|Anthony Cohn]] (University of Leeds)
* [[AntonyGalton|Antony Galton]] (University of Exeter, UK)
* Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Italy) - ''Past-President''
* [[PatHayes|Pat Hayes]] (IHMC, USA)
* [[IanHorrocks|Ian Horrocks]] (University of Oxford, UK)
* [[ChristopherMenzel|Christopher Menzel]] (Texas A&M University, USA)
* [[RiichiroMizoguchi|Riichiro Mizoguchi]] (Osaka University, Japan)
* Mark Musen (Stanford University, USA)
* [[JohnMylopoulos|John Mylopoulos]] (University of Trento, Italy)
* [[BarrySmith|Barry Smith]] (University at Buffalo, USA)
* [[JohnSowa|John F. Sowa]] (<nowiki>VivoMind Intelligence</nowiki>, USA)
* [[ChrisWelty|Chris Welty]] (IBM Research, USA)
* [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] (Ontolog; CIM3, USA)

== IAOA Standing Committees ==

* Visibility and Public Relations Committee -
** Co-chairs: Nicola Guarino, [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]], [[AliHashemi|Ali Hashemi]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: Nicola Guarino and [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-publicity/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaPublicity|IAOA Publicity]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/Publicity/

* International Promotion Committee -
** Co-chairs: [[RiichiroMizoguchi|Riichiro Mizoguchi]] and [[GiancarloGuizzardi|Giancarlo Guizzardi]] (temporary)
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[RiichiroMizoguchi|Riichiro Mizoguchi]] and [[GiancarloGuizzardi|Giancarlo Guizzardi]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-international/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaInternational|IAOA International]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/International/

* Infrastructure -
** Co-chairs: [[OliverKutz|Oliver Kutz]] and [[ValterCavecchia|Valter Cavecchia]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]], [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]] and [[LaureVieu|Laure Vieu]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-infrastructure/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaInfrastructure|IAOA Infrastructure]] (including work on the IAOA website)
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/Infrastructure/

* Membership Committee -
** Chair: [[LaureVieu|Laure Vieu]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[LaureVieu|Laure Vieu]], [[StefanoBorgo|Stefano Borgo]]
** Subcommittee -
*** Interface with members - Chair: [[StefanoBorgo|Stefano Borgo]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-membership/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaMembership|IAOA Membership]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/Membership/

* <nowiki>ByLaws</nowiki> Committee -
** Co-chairs: [[StefanoBorgo|Stefano Borgo]] and [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[StefanoBorgo|Stefano Borgo]] and [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-bylaws/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaByLaws]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/ByLaws/

== IAOA Technical Committees ==

'' ... all members of IAOA are welcome and encouraged to participate in the following Committee activities. Please email the respective committee chairs and EC-liaisons to get started.''

* Education Committee -
** Co-chairs: [[FabianNeuhaus|Fabian Neuhaus]] (acting chair)
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]] and [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-education
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaEducation|IAOA Education]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/ [ previously: http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/Committee/Education/ ]
** Subcommittees -
*** Summer School - Chair: WernerKuhn
**** Wiki-space: [[IaoaEducation_School]]
**** website: http://iaoa.org/isc2012/index.php
**** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/School/
*** PhD consortium / Doctoral Colloquium / Student exchanges - Chair: [[RobertHoehndorf|Robert Hoehndorf]]
**** Wiki-space: [[IaoaEducation_DoctoralConsortium]]
**** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/DoctoralConsortium/
*** Curricula, Certification & Accreditation - Chair: [[FabianNeuhaus|Fabian Neuhaus]]
**** Wiki-space: [[IaoaEducation_Curricula]]
**** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/Curricula/
*** Textbook / Handbook - Chair: [[AntonyGalton|Antony Galton]]
**** Wiki-space: [[IaoaEducation_Textbook]]
**** Wiki workspace: [http://iaoa-02.cim3.net/wiki/index.php/Textbook IAOA Textbook project] homepage (community only)
**** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/Textbook/
*** Ontology Terminology - Co-chairs: [[ToddSchneider|Todd Schneider]] & [[AdamGoldstein|Adam Goldstein]]
**** Wiki-space: [[IaoaOntologyTerminology]] (previously: [[Lexicon]] ... ''content to be migrated'')
**** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/Education/Terminology/

* Standardisation Coordination Committee
** Co-conveners: [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]] and [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-standards
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaStandardsCoordination]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/StandardisationCoordination/

* Ontology registry and repository -
** Co-chairs: [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]] and [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]] (temporary)
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[MichaelGruninger|Michael Grüninger]] and [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-repository/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaOntologyRepository]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/TC/OntologyRepository/

== IAOA Special Interest Groups (SIGs) ==

'' ... all members are welcome and encouraged to participate in the following SIG activities. Please email the respective SIG co-conveners and EC-liaisons to get started.''

* Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling SIG -
** Status: Established.
** Co-conveners: OscarPastor, [[YairWand|Yair Wand]], [[GiancarloGuizzardi|Giancarlo Guizzardi]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[GiancarloGuizzardi|Giancarlo Guizzardi]]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-conceptual-modeling/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaOntologiesAndConceptualModelingSIG]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/SIG/Ontologies-and-Conceptual-Modeling/

* Design Semantics: Ontologies, Inference, and Standards for Spatial Design SIG
** Status: established.
** Design, e.g., for creative, visual, product, architecture, and engineering, involves conception and abstraction with high-level constructs and patterns. An abstract preliminary design is translated to specific structures at a quantitative or geometric level via the process of physical design and specification. Contemporary professional design tools, and the precise quantitative modelling paradigm that they are based on, are inherently incapable of exploiting the correspondence between high-level descriptions of spatial concepts and patterns with low-level geometric features. Computer aided design tools also lack the ability to exploit the expertise that a designer is equipped with, but is unable to communicate to the design tool explicitly in a manner that is consistent with its inherent human-centred conceptualisation, i.e., semantically and qualitatively. ... In this special interest group, we aim to establish working-groups, and standardisation and dissemination initiatives within the foundational framework of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). The initial focus of the SIG will be on the domain of spatial design for architecture, and the role of design semantics in the context of computer-aided architecture design standards and interoperability initiatives such as the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and the Building Information Model (BIM). Subsequently, the scope will be extended to other engineering design domains involving other types of creative and engineering function-driven of computer-aided design activities.
** Co-conveners: [[MehulBhatt|Mehul Bhatt]] and [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]]
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[JohnBateman|John Bateman]]
** Website: [http://www.designsemantics.org/ here]
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-design-semantics/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaDesignSemanticsSIG]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/SIG/Design-Semantics/

* Geo-Semantics: Geospatial Ontologies and Standards SIG
** Status: in process of formation
** Goals: the possible role and form of a geospatial ontology and standards SIG within the association, augmenting and complementing other initiatives in this area, is currently being considered. If you are interested in pursuing this further, get in contact with WernerKuhn and JohnBateman.
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-geosemantics/
** Wiki-space: [[IaoaGeoSemanticsSIG]]
** shared-file workspace - http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/SIG/Geo-Semantics/

* Biomedical Ontology SIG
** Status: the possible role and form of a biomedical ontology SIG within the association, augmenting and complementing other initiatives in this area, is currently being considered. If you are interested in pursuing this further, get in contact with Stefan Schulz (Graz) and RobertHoehndorf. A meeting on this topic will be held at the upcoming FOIS 2012.

* Semantic Web Applied Ontology (SWAO) SIG
** Status: Being formed
*** ref.: inaugural meeting - see: [[IAOA_SWAO_ConferenceCall_2013_11_25]]; organizational meeting coming up on Tue 2014_02_03
** Co-conveners: ... (tbd) ...
** IAOA EC liaisons: [[LeoObrst|Leo Obrst]]
** Goals: ... ''(coming!)''
** Mailing List Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/iaoa-swao/ ... ''(? pending)''
** Wiki-space: [[IAOA_SWAO_SIG]]
** shared-file workspace - : http://iaoa.cim3.net/file/work/SIG/SemanticWeb-AppliedOntology/

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