Governance and ontologies [Fwd: ORES2010]

Very interesting to see that maintenance and versioning is featuring so
prominently in this call. 
I guess since the topic is ontology _repositories_ this is to be expected,
but nice to see the discipline maturing in this way. 

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On Behalf Of Antoine Isaac
Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:31
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Subject: [Fwd: ORES2010]

(Please forward. Sorry for crossposting.)

ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web
ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions -
http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/
Heraklion, Greece - Deadline: March 1, 2010

The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology
repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and
retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of
several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in
order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum
for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the
realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly
their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to
achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common
interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a
forum.

Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now
emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group
set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings
are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the
world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for
Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqué outlining
requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the
Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for
describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories
are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims
(providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the
methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making
them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner.
Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as
modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology
repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the
entire ontology lifecycle.

Submitting papers and system descriptions

We want to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the
design, development and application of ontology repositories,
repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and
issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the
submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions
discussing some of the following questions:

  * How can ontology repositories "talk" to each other?
  * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology
repository be made comprehensible for users?
  * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle?
  * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology
repositories?
  * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and
other applications and legacy systems?
  * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across
ontology repositories?
  * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and
editors?
  * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning?
  * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain
specific semantic infrastructures?
  * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications?
  * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use?
How could ontology repositories use these?

Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For
system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted.
All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS
format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-72376-0
). Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the
number and quality of the submissions, authors might be invited to present
their papers during a poster session.

Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010 .

Important dates

Papers and demo submission: March 1, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification: April 5, 2010
Camera ready version: April 18, 2010
Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010

Organizing committee

Mathieu d'Aquin, the Open University, UK Alexander García Castro, Bremen
University, Germany Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Kim
Viljanen, Aalto University, Finland

Program committee

Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, USA.
Leo J. Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA.
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA.
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA.
Li Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
Mike Dean, BBN, USA.
John Bateman, Universität Bremen, Germany.
Michael Kohlhase, Jacobs University, Germany.
Tomi Kauppinen, University of Muenster, Germany.
Peter Haase, Fluid Operations, Germany.
Raul Palma, Poznan University, Poland.
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands.
Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland.
Martin Luts, ELIKO TAK, Estonia.
Janne Saarela, Profium Ltd, Finland.
Jouni Tuominen, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Sandro Hawke, W3C.
Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

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