Hi Folks,
In advance of the meetings next week of the EMA TC Collateral and
Documents SC and the EM TC RIM SC I'm forwarding the announcement of the
online surveys that are part of the 3-month Ontology Summit work that
culminates at NIST in the Ontology Summit in Spring. The Summit is the
process, not just the actual 2-Day event, and it involves the
international leaders in the development of practical ontologies,
ontology repositories and, with this year's summit, the training of
future ontologists in both the academic and business/social worlds.
If you've ever wondered where I get the materials that I've been
introducing into our work over the last many-several years, the
Ontolog-Forum community is one of my main sources. Completing these
surveys gives our Ontolog-Forum community valuable data from which the
work of many programs benefits. Our work fits into the second of these
three surveys:
"* 2. conduct a survey to elicit information about the knowledge and skills ontologists need, or are expected to have, in a variety of working contexts..."
I believe this resource would be a valuable addition to the resources that Werner Joerg and Jeff Waters are using in the RIM work. Don McGarry might want to also consider the first survey, which aims at educational institutions.(note Leo Obrst, of MITRE is a recognized leader in this field, as well as a leader in and co-convener of the Ontolog Forum.)
All three surveys begin on this page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_Survey
I advise you to consider the message below as informational only, so you should follow the links below for further reading only. If you are not accustomed to the purple-numbers wiki system, it can be confusing. That's why I'm providing the key links in my message.
The second key link I'm providing is for the Ontolog-Forum IPR policy, which you need to understand before you complete the survey(s) if you choose to do so: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 (Note: it takes a few seconds from the time your browser opens the page before it shifts down to the IPR anchor-point.
Cheers,
Rex