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Revision as of 03:42, 20 January 2023
Announcement
The 2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting will be held May 23rd-25th, 2023. The aims of the meeting are:
- to bring together researchers who have played an important role in the development and application of BFO, to highlight the practical impact and value of using BFO as a top-level architecture,
- to identify and work through outstanding issues experienced by users of BFO,
- to begin the creation of a set of BFO-conformant ontologies in the domain of government policy and data
Subsidiary goals are:
- to showcase real-world examples of incorporation of BFO in development pipelines and their practical impacts
- to promote collaboration across different groups of BFO users
- to share case studies illustrating challenges arising in BFO use, evaluation, interpretation, and revision
- to reveal differences in interpretation of BFO terms and relations, and of associated strategies for using BFO
- to share strategies of evaluation of BFO from different user bases
- to identify and disseminate strategies for improving the quality of BFO-based ontologies
Paper and Workshop Presentations
Those wishing to present a paper at this meeting, including at the workshops mentioned below, should submit a short abstract (~200 words) to John Beverley [1] before February 15th. Confirmation of acceptance will be issued by February 28th. Paper presentations are especially welcome on applications, uses cases, and practical aspects of employing BFO. See below for more descriptions of desirable presentation topics.
Those wishing to present a workshop should contact Barry Smith [2] as soon as possible. Note that we are planning for a meeting consisting entirely of plenary sessions. Hence, the number of workshops will be kept to a minimum.
Workshops chairs will decide each workshop structure (for example: panel, successive talks, one talk + responses, etc.); each workshop will be approximately 1-2 hours in length.
Registration
Registration will be made available online shortly, with the following early-bird fees:
- Students - None
- Junior Faculty/Postdocs - $100
- Senior Faculty, Government, Industry - $300
These fees are designed primarily to cover venue and refreshment costs.
We are currently exploring possibilities for zoom participation, but given the goals of the event, strongly encourage in-person participation.
Keynote Speakers
We are happy to announce four keynote speakers (information will be updated as it becomes available).
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Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
The first keynote will be given by Werner Ceusters, who will speak on
The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Abstract
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Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange
University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine
and will be titled Time Matters
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Assistant Professor of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
Vice-Director, School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen
Field Reports from Using BFO in Scientific Ontologies
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Division Chief, US Border Patrol
Date
May 23 (Tuesday) - 25 (Thursday), 2023
Venue
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260
Tentative Schedule
Day 1
Start Time: 9:00am
- Keynote: Werner Ceusters, The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Keynote: Alan Ruttenberg, Time Matters
- Workshop: BFO-ISO (Chair - Barry Smith)
- Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Background and significance
- Proposals for future revisions and extensions
- Relationship to other standards
- Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Workshop: BFO-2020 Subgroup (Chair - Amelia Kahn)
- Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Evaluation of temporalized relation strategy
- Development of BFO temporal profiles
- Potential topics include but are not limited to:
Day 2
- Keynote: Janna Hastings, Field Reports from Using BFO in Scientific Ontologies
- Workshop: Applications of BFO in Industry (Chair - John Beverley)
- Sessions
- "Fandaws and BFO" Aaron Damiano
- "OccO: The Occupation Ontology" John Beverley, Yongqun "Oliver" He, Sam Smith, et. al.
- Further potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Demonstrations of benefits associated with using BFO as a top-level architecture
- Examples of BFO-based temporal reasoning
- Comparisons of the use of BFO with other upper-level ontologies in industry
- Further potential topics include but are not limited to:
Day 3: Government Ontology
- Keynote: Ryan Riccucci, TBD
- Workshop: Buffalo and Toronto Ontology Group (Chair - Mark Fox)
End Time: 4:00pm
Organizers
John Beverley (University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY), [3]
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY), [4]
List of Participants will include:
Adrien Barton
John Beverley
Werner Ceusters
Aaron Damiano
Bill Duncan
Pierre Grenon
Janna Hastings
Yongqun "Oliver" He
William Hogan
Anthony Huffman
Amelia Kahn
Rasmus Larsen
David Limbaugh
Eric Merrell
Fabian Neuhaus
Neil Otte
Ryan Riccucci
Ron Rudnicki
Alan Ruttenberg
Selja Seppala
Barry Smith