Calendar of Relevant Open Events in 2009 that may be of Professional Interest to the Ontolog Community

Q4/2009

25~29-Oct-2009 - ISWC 2009 - Fairfax, Virginia, USA - ($) - See conference website: http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/
- 25-Oct-2009 - [http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/ ISWC 2009 Workshop on Collaborative Construction, Management

and Linking of Structured Knowledge] - See: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/gc3/iswc-workshop/

23~24-Oct-2009 - OWLED 2009 - The Sixth International Workshop on "OWL: Experiences and Directions" - to be held on October 23-24th, Chantilly, Virginia, USA (colocated, with and to be held right before ISWC 2009) - See: http://www.webont.org/owled/2009/

September 1-4, 2009 - The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, K-CAP 2009 - Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California, USA - ($) - See conference website: http://kcap09.stanford.edu

August 24-25, 2009 - International Conference and Workshop on Enterprises *as* Systems: Theory and Theory in Action 2009 - NIU Outreach Center, Northern Illinois University, 5555 Trillium Blvd, Hoffman Estates, IL 60192 - ($) - See conference website: http:www.enterprisesystemtheory.net/estconference/estconference.html This conference has 3 principle themes: enterprises *as* systems in the general systems-theoretic sense (systemics and the systems family of disciplines), the formal / empirical representation of enterprises (theory), the application of theory in terms of enterprise architecture and engineering. Papers discussing ontology and ontology tools in this context are of high interest.

July 24~26, 2009, Friday~Sunday - ICBO: International Conference on Biomedical Ontology - at University at Buffalo, NY, US - ($) - see: http://icbo.buffalo.edu/
- July 20~23, 2009, Monday~Thursday - (pre-conference) Tutorials and Courses - ($) - see: http://icbo.buffalo.edu/

April 27-28, 2009 - 2009 Search Engine Meeting - Boston, Massachusetts - ($$) -- see conference website: http://infonortics.eu/searchengines/index.html

March 25, 2009 (Wed. pm) - SemanticMediaWiki Meetup - Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA - (free) - See: http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/SMW_Meetup_at_Stanford

March 23-25, 2009 - AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium Series - Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA - ($) - see: [http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss09.php
- March 23-25, 2009 - "Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0" at the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposia - Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA - see: http://tw.rpi.edu/sss09

March 23-25, 2009 - Protege-OWL Short Course - Stanford, California, USA - ($$ or $ for students) - The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to the field of ontology engineering using Protege-OWL. The course is taught by members of the Protege team in facilities located on the Stanford campus. Enrollment is limited to ensure optimal learning experiences. The target audience members are beginner and intermediate users of Protege-OWL and a 10% discount is offered for groups of 5 or more people from the same organization. Online registration now available.

(US) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/calendar.cfm