[protege-discussion] Formation of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA)

[Mark Musen]

Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that there is a new membership organization  
dedicated to the subject of applied ontology that will be of interest  
to the Protégé community.

Formally established in Trento, Italy in April 2009, after an open  
meeting at the 2008 Conference on Formal Ontology in Information  
Systems, IAOA is a non-profit, open   association with the purpose of  
promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration  
at the intersection of philosophical  ontology, linguistics, logic,  
cognitive science, and computer science, as well as in the  
applications of ontological analysis to conceptual modeling, knowledge  
engineering, knowledge management, information
systems development, library and information science, scientific  
research, and semantic technologies in general.

IAOA is open to all individuals and institutions who share its goals.

For the statute, list of activities, membership benefits, mailing list  
and other information, please visit http://www.iaoa.org.

To present the IAOA, which enjoys the friendly cooperation with  the  
Ontolog Forum, the IAOA Executive Council has organized a public  
Ontolog telecon for this Thursday, June 18, at 10:30 PDT, 19:30 CEST.  
See details at

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2009_06_18

I believe that IAOA will be able to play an important, supportive role  
for Protégé users, and I urge you to learn more about the organization  
and to promote its goals.

Thanks,

Mark
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