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Registration for the IAOA Summer Institute (August 8-11, 2017) is
now open:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/">http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/events/iaoa-summer-institute-2017/</a><br>
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Details about local logistics can be found at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017/Logistics">http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017/Logistics</a><br>
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IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017">http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017</a><br>
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<p>Within the Applied Ontology community, upper ontologies are
widely recognized as tools to support the tasks of ontology design
and semantic integration. At the first Ontology Summit in 2006,
the designers of several prominent upper ontologies were joined by
key ontology technology participants, with the purpose of finding
a means to relate the different ontologies to each other. In the
decade since that meeting, the development and application of
upper ontologies has continued, yet many challenges remain.</p>
<p>The 2017 IAOA Summer Institute will explore the following topics:</p>
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<li>What are the foundational choices and the practical
motivations of present upper ontologies? <a
href="http://ontologforum.org/index.php?title=SummerInstitute2017&oldid=23622#hid2C"><br>
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<li>What is the range of concepts that should be covered in an
upper ontology?</li>
<li>What are the relationships among upper ontologies?</li>
<li>How do we evaluate upper ontologies?</li>
<li>Using upper ontologies for semantic integration</li>
<li>Using upper ontologies for ontology design</li>
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