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:

  1. 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,
  2. to identify and work through outstanding issues experienced by users of BFO,
  3. 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 updated as it becomes available), the first is by Werner Ceusters:

Werner Ceusters
Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Title: The Axiomatization of BFO 2020: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Alan Ruttenberg
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

Title: TBD

Ryan Riccucci
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]