[iaoa-general] Ontology Summit 2025 - starts TODAY in < 4h

[Frank Loebe]

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 <kenbaclawski at gmail.com>
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