Calendar of Relevant Open Events in 2007 that may be of Professional Interest to the Ontolog Community

Q4/2007

• November 11~15, 2007 - ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007 - The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007 - Busan, Korea - ($) - see: http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/

• October 15-17, 2007 - International Conference on Enterprise Systems Theory and Theory in Action - 2007: to be held in Palatine IL USA (Chicago area). Main topics include the creation and utilization of an enterprise systems theory treating enterprises *as* systems in the (general) systems theoretic sense and resulting from the mergence of a number of disciplines, for example, economics, law, business, ontology, semiotics (i.e. semantics, syntax, pragmatics), logic, knowledge, communications, process, and other subject matter such as SOA, EA and model driven architecture - ($) - see: Registration menu tab at http://www.enterprisesystemtheory.net/index.html

Q3/2007

• August 14, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #62, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Mapping and Navigating the Waterways of Public Information: Connecting People to Science and Scholarly Knowledge" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/MappingPublicGoodsAndServices_ConnectingToScienceAndScholarlyKnowledge_2007_08_14

• July 30, 2007, Monday - SDForum Semantic Web SIG Event: "Will Web 3.0 Finally Give Developers a Real Model Driven Architecture Solution?" - ($) - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-07/msg00026.html

• July 24-27, 2007 - ESAS 2007: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, being held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007) in Beijing, China. Paper submission deadline is March 20, 2007. Proceedings will be printed as part of 31st COMPSAC by the IEEE Computer Society Press - ($) - see: Registration menu tab at http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/index.html

• July 17 & 18, 2007 - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #62, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Building the Way Forward Together: Towards Stable Meaning and Records Preservation in Information-Sharing" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsStabilityInInformationSharing_2007_07_17

• July 15~18, 2007 - 10th International Protégé Conference - Budapest, Hungary - ($) - See http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2007/

• July 9 - 11, 2007 - 10th Annual Open Forum on Metadata Registries: Integrating Standards in Practice - to be held in New York, New York - ($). This Open Forum will focus on a series of core standards as well as on the selection, integration, and use of multiple standards in actual systems. See http://metadataopenforum.org

Q2/2007

• June 20, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #62, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Advancing Virtual Organizing: Potentials and Realities from Scientific Grid to Citizen-Service Communities" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/AdvancingVirtualOrganization_2007_06_20

• May 22, 2007 - SDForum Semantic Web SIG Special Event: "Web 3.0 Semantics? Silicon Valley Meets the World Experts" (co-located with Semantic Technology Conference) - (free) - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2007-05/msg00015.html

• May 20~24, 2007 - SemTech2007 - 2007 Semantic Technology Conference - San Jose, California, USA - ($$) - see: http://www.semantic-conference.com/

• May 8~12, 2007 - WWW2007 - the 16th International World Wide Web Conference - Banff, Alberta, Canada - ($$) - see: http://www2007.org/
  • May 8~12, 2007 - [http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ckc2007 Workshop on Social and Collaborative

Construction of Structured Knowledge] at WWW2007 - Banff, Alberta, Canada - (free) - see: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/ckc2007

• May 8-10, 2007 - SIN 2007: International Conference on Security in Information and Networks, Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel, Gazimagusa (TRNC), North Cyprus, Turkey - ($) - Among main topics: Security ontology, models, protocols & policies; Semantics of security;

Web security; and, Semantic Web and semantic Web services. The event comprises invited talks, refereed papers, workshops and tutorials. For due dates, see http://www.sinconf.org/

• May 1~2, 2007, Tuesday & Wednesday - 3rd Service Oriented Architecture for E-Government Conference / Collaborative Expedition Workshop #61, at MITRE (McLean, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SOAforEGovernment_2007_05_0102

• April 24, 2007 - SICoP Special Conference 2: "Building Knowledgebases for Cross-Domain Semantic Interoperability" - Oracle, Reston, Virginia, USA - (Free) - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPSpecialConference2_2007_04_25

• April 23-24, 2004 - OntologySummit2007: Ontology Summit 2007 face-to-face workshop and public event - Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - (Free) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007

• April 23-27, 2007 - NIST: Interoperability Week - NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - (Free) - http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm

• April 17, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #60, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Achieving Value and Improving Performance across the Federal Enterprise" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/Achieving_High_Enterprise_Performance_By_Connecting_ProcessImprovement_KM_And_EA

Q1/2007

• March 22, 2007, Thursday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #62, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Social Networking, Knowledge-Sharing and Organizational Change: Organizing Around Communities of Practice to Improve the Dialogue between Government and Citizens and the Delivery of Citizen-Centric Services" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/SocialNetworking_KnowledgeSharing_OrganizationalChange_6thAnniversary_03_22_2007

• March 14, 2007 - The Tortoise vs the Hare - Ontology vs Folksonomy. SDForum in silicon valley is going to have the second semantic web event on 3/14. Join us to hear Timothy Redmond of Stanford explain how and why Protege is so successful, and to hear Jeff Pollock of Oracle explain the business motivations for investing in ontologies, and why the market for ontology-based products is so much larger than the market for folksonomy-based products. See event page on SDForum calendar for details

(http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=2065&mo=3&yr=2007). Hope to see you there. -AJ

• March 9-10, 2007 -

Metaphorum-2007 Conference around Stafford Beer heritage . New Developments of Organizational Cybernetics after Stafford Beer ( a report of Dr Allena Leonard and Dr Angela Espinosa )

• February 27, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #58, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Exploring the Potentials and Realities of the Identity Management Landscape for Convergence and Service Oriented Architecture" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/Potentials_And_Realities_Of_Identity_Management_Landscape_For_Convergence_And_SOA_2007_02_27

• February 21-23, 2007 - ICSD 2007: The International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, at Bangalore, Karnataka INDIA - ($) - see: http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd/

• February 6, 2007 - SICoP Special Conference: Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 by Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations, at CSC, Falls Church, Virginia, USA - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoPSpecialConference_2007_02_06

• January 23, 2007, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #57, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Collaborative Organizing Workshop: Opening Up Networked Improvement Activities Around Service Oriented Architecture in 2007" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/CollaborativeOrganizingWorkshopToPlanWorkshops_01_23_07

Links to Other Relevant Event Calendars   

• Ontolog - Coming Events - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW   

• Ontolog - Past Events - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ   

• (US Gov) Collaboration Expedition Workshop (CEW) - http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop   

• (US) National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) - http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Meetings_and_Events   

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

• OASIS - https://www.oasis-open.org/events/   

• (EU) DERI - http://www.deri.ie/research/events/   

• ONTOWORLD Upcoming Event Calendar (implemented on SemanticMediaWiki) - http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events   

• UMBC eBiquity: Events / Talks - http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/events/select/all/