Calendar of Relevant Open Events in 2011 that may be of Professional Interest to the Ontolog Community

Q4/2011

1-November-2011 - The 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshp on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies (SSO) (held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011) - Chicago, Illinois, USA - $ - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SocopWorkshops/Spatial_Semantics_And_Ontologies_2011

23~27-October-2011 - ISWC 2011: The 10th International Semantic Web Conference - Bonn, Germany - $ - see: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/
- 23-October-2011 (Sunday) - "Terra Cognita - Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web" an ISWC-2011 workshop - Bonn, Germany - see: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/workshops/terra-cognita-foundations-technologies-and-applications-of-the-geospatial-web/
- 23-October-2011 (Sunday) - Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web - an ISWC-2011 workshop - Bonn, Germany - see: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/workshops/uncertainty-reasoning-for-the-semantic-web/
- 24-October-2011 (Monday, am) - OCAS Workshop - "Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web" an ISWC-2011 workshop - Bonn, Germany - see: http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/workshops/ontologies-come-of-age/
- and more workshops ...

8~12-Aug-2011 - the 5th International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2011) - Ljubljana, Slovenia - $ - see: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo5/ & http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=306

17~23-July-2011 - The first IAOA Summer Institute in Applied Ontology will be held, in cooperation with the Vespucci Initiative in Firenze, Italy - $$ - see: http://www.iaoa.org/iaoaevents/iaoaevents.php?id=5326878484969960849

7~8-July-2011 - The 5TH Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI 2011) - July 7-8, 2011 Delft, Netherlands - $ - see: http://www.fomi2011.nl/

6-June-2011 - DESI IV - ICAIL 2011 Workshop on Setting Standards for Searching Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA - $ - see: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/desi4/

12 & 13-April-2011 - ODISSEE Workshop - Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment (ODISSEE) Workshop - a two day workshop co-hosted by Alion Science and Technology and the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR, University at Buffalo) - Washington, DC, USA - Free- see: http://ncor.buffalo.edu/ODISSEE/

23~25-March-2011 - Protege-OWL Short Course - Stanford, California, USA - ($$ or $ for students) - The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a theoretical standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on use of the free, open-source Protege platform. The target audience members are beginner and intermediate users of Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register - $$ - Regular course updates will be posted on the Protege Facebook and Twitter accounts.
- Course content: http://goo.gl/V65n2
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/moE4N
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/aOjtq (early bird discounts expire Feb. 23rd, 10% off for groups of 5 or more)