From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it Tue Jan 7 17:40:21 2025 From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 16:40:21 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] 2025 IAOA Fellowships - Call for Nominations by February 23, 2025 Message-ID: <3B064C88-7198-449F-BA74-87F0E8D84D64@unibz.it> Dear ontology enthusiasts, the IAOA [1] has established an award of honorary fellowships [2] in order to recognize distinguished scholars in the field of applied ontology. IAOA Fellows will have contributed significantly and in a sustained manner to the field of applied ontology, for example by outstanding scientific achievements, which often goes hand-in-hand with their strong dedication and service to the community. Their selection is subject to an annual process based on nominations from the community. For 2025, we solicit nominations by February 23, 2025 (Sunday, UTC-12). Please send nominations to [3] info at iaoa.org, thereby consequentially reaching the selection committee. Complete details on the process are specified in the IAOA's Fellowship Procedure [4], an excerpt of which describing the nomination requirements is copied below. The 2025 selection committee consists of - Mara Abel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil - Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada - Janna Hastings, University of St. Gallen, University of Z?rich, Switzerland - Oliver Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Fabian Neuhaus, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany We look forward to each of your nominations. Please observe the basic rules below carefully to make valid nominations. Many thanks in advance for all efforts! Happy New Year, and best regards, Oliver Kutz President, IAOA **** < excerpt from [4] > To nominate a person, a nominator sends a message to the committee that summarizes the main contributions of the nominee to applied ontology and argues why the nominee should be selected. The nomination should be seconded by at least one supporter. Among the nominator and the supporter(s), at least one should be an IAOA member. Self nominations are not allowed. A nominee cannot be part of the selection committee. If that happens, the nominee will be given the option to reject the nomination or withdraw from the selection committee. [1] International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) https://iaoa.org/ [2] IAOA Fellowship (web page) https://iaoa.org/index.php/organization/fellows/ [3] IAOA contact mail address, to be used for nominations info at iaoa.org [4] IAOA Fellowship Procedure https://iaoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IAOA-Fellow-Procedure.pdf From guendalina.righetti at ifikk.uio.no Mon Jan 6 18:32:21 2025 From: guendalina.righetti at ifikk.uio.no (Guendalina Righetti) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:32:21 +0000 Subject: [iaoa-general] Call for applications: C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology, University of Oslo, 20-23 May 2025 Message-ID: C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology University of Oslo, 20-23 May 2025 DESCRIPTION This four-day summer school aims to give both a theoretical and a practical overview of foundational ontologies. It focuses on four of them, devoting one full day to each: Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO, Tuesday 20 May), Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering (DOLCE, Wednesday 21 May), Basic Formal Ontology (BFO, Thursday 22 May), and Business Objects Reference Ontology (BORO, Friday 23 May). Each day is divided into two sessions. In the morning sessions, invited speakers will give a theoretical introduction to the ontology. The afternoon sessions will consist of practical group work on case studies that will help participants understand how to apply the ontology. At the end of these sessions, invited speakers will discuss the case studies engaging with participants? group work. The summer school is supported by the European Union (ERC Advanced Grant, C-FORS: Construction in the Formal Sciences, awarded to ?ystein Linnebo, project number 101054836). SPEAKERS Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente) - UFO Stefano Borgo (University of Trento) - DOLCE John Beverley (University of Buffalo) - BFO Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions Ltd.) - BORO DATES AND LOCATION University of Oslo, Blindern Campus, 20-23 May 2025, 9:30am-5pm. FEES The summer school is free. TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION Accepted participants are expected to arrange their travel and accommodation, and to cover the expenses associated with attending the summer school. A small number of bursaries might be available to support participants with severe financial needs. PARTICIPATION There is a limited number of places for participants. The deadline to apply is 15 February. Anyone interested in participating should email Salvatore Florio (salvatore.florio at ifikk.uio.no) and Guendalina Righetti (guendalina.righetti at ifikk.uio.no) and provide: * the applicant?s CV; * a short letter of motivation (max. one page) explaining why the participant would benefit from attending the summer school. Applicants from underrepresented groups are encouraged to note this in the letter of motivation. The letter may also include information about severe financial needs. Notifications of acceptance will be given by 1 March. CONTACT For any question about the summer school, please contact Salvatore Florio (salvatore.florio at ifikk.uio.no) and Guendalina Righetti (guendalina.righetti at ifikk.uio.no). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de Wed Jan 15 14:17:04 2025 From: frank.loebe at informatik.uni-leipzig.de (Frank Loebe) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:17:04 +0100 Subject: [iaoa-general] Ontology Summit 2025 - starts TODAY in < 4h Message-ID: <06639a62-186b-4a7d-a0ed-73c7330734c8@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> Forwarding below from [ontolog-forum], possibly cf. there at https://groups.google.com/g/ontolog-forum/c/EV2LkwmybmI The launch session starts today (and sessions generally) at 09:00 PST / 12:00 EST / 14:00 BRT / 17:00 UTC / 18:00 CET / 19:00 SAST https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20250115T1700 ------ Original Message ------ From: Ken Baclawski Sent: 2025.01.13 22:14 -0500 To: ontolog-forum at googlegroups.com, ontology-summit at googlegroups.com We are pleased to announce that the Ontology Summit 2025 will begin on Wednesday, 15 January 2025. *Conceptualization, Analysis and Formalization* The Two Sides of Ontology: Relating ontologies to the world and to theories about the world The website for the Ontology Summit 2025 is available at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2025 The first session will be an overview. See https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2025_01_15 *Nicola Guarino* will give the keynote address of the summit on Wednesday 22 January 2025. Sessions will be on Wednesdays at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1 Description: In this summit we will consider the question of what an ontology is as well as how ontologies are related to other notions such as conceptualizations, theories and semantics. *Nicola Guarino* will set the stage for the summit with his keynote address: "Ontologies as specifications of conceptualizations: correctness, precision, and accuracy", which will be elaborated by *Giancarlo Guizzardi* who will discuss semantics, ontology and explanation. Accordingly, conceptualization is fundamental for ontologies, but a careful analysis is necessary for a specification to be useful. *Michael Gruninger* and *Barry Smith* will then examine how one can specify the conceptualization of reality by means of mathematical theories. The next session will raise the question of what a theory is, which will segue to a series of sessions that survey general philosophical and theoretical issues. The second half of the summit will survey more concrete issues, specifically about data and its relationship to conceptualizations, reality and ontologies. Of special interest are ontologies that have large amounts of continually increasing instance data. How can one effectively verbalize and visualize such large ontologies? How can one control the quality as the data expands? How effective are these ontologies in practice? Can the ontologies adequately support reasoning? Ken Baclawski Chair, Ontolog Board of Trustees