CTSA Ontology Workshop

Venue: To be determined, almost certainly at a hotel close to a major Florida airport

Date: February 11-12, 2013

Principal Focus

- ontology-based evaluation of CTSA (and other scientific research / university) activities

Subgoals

- explore a strategy to create an evaluation and tracking system for an organization like a CTSA based on, or working with, a university-wide system for faculty reporting

- create an ontology to support evaluation measurement (analogous to OBI)

- this meeting will also serve as the inaugural meeting of the new CTSA Ontology Affinity Group

Participants will include:

Mathias Brochhausen (Arkansas CTSA)

Michael Conlon (University of Florida CTSA / VIVO)

James Demery (University of Florida CTSA)

Melissa Haendel (Oregon / CTSAconnect)

William Hogan (Arkansas CTSA)

Warren Kibbe (Northwestern CTSA)

Barry Smith (Buffalo)

Dagobert Soergel (Buffalo)

Carlo Torniai (Oregon / CTSAconnect)

Organizers: William Hogan and Barry Smith

Sponsor: Translational Research Institute of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Further information: Please write to Barry Smith