Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting
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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
Keynote Speakers
We are happy to announce four keynote speakers (information will be updated as it becomes available):
Werner Ceusters
Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
the first is by Werner Ceusters who will speak on The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Abstract
Alan Ruttenberg
Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange
University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine
Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange
University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine
Title: TBD
Janna Hastings
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
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
Title: TBD
Ryan Riccucci
Division Chief, US Border Patrol
Division Chief, US Border Patrol
Title: TBD
Date
May 23 (Tuesday) - 25 (Thursday), 2017
Venue
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260
Organizers
John Beverley (University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY), [1]
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY), [2]
