Friday, April 26, 2013

Please cast your vote - 1st assembly 2013 is being held

Between April 26 and April 30, IAOA is holding its first virtual ordinary assembly in 2013, which mainly comprises two electronic ballots. The 2012 financial statement and the 2013 previsional budget need to be approved by more than half of the Association's members (determined as of April 16) via anonymous voting. Full details are available on the Assembly Wikipage.

All current members are kindly asked to cast their vote, which will just take a few minutes:

Member's Area > Utilities > "2013 Vote for Financial Statement and Previsional Budget".

Notably, only "Yes" votes contribute to achieving the required simple majority for approval, while "Abstain" and "No" do not.

PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE! Your support is needed here - the earlier, the better. THANKS!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Learning what it is - and how to build it

...guess it's the same with building and managing an ontology
(click here to launch the video)


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Getting Involved: SIGs

Please take 5 secs of your time to answer this survey.

It helps us to better plan future activities.

Thanks.

Big Data Management

Talking about streaming..

***Streamed live on Apr 5, 2013***
http://www.IBMBigDataHub.com - This live video chat, "Big Data Management: After the Launch," featured an interactive discussion moderated by Jeffrey Kelly, Principal Research Contributor at Wikibon.org and a Contributing Editor at SiliconANGLE; James Kobielus (IBM), Nancy Kopp-Hensley, Sr. Program Director for IBM PureData & Netezza Product Marketing; and James Kobielus, Big Data Evangelist at IBM. The panel discussed recent IBM big data announcements and what they mean to the marketplace.

It might be a one company's perspective, but it still gives good insights on the topic. Take a look. 

 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Learning Corner : Nicola Guarino

Great lectures by Nicola Guarino at NEMO, Federal University at Espirito Santo, Brazil: On function, roles and services of Applied Ontology.

Live, yesterday
Live, today

Acknowledgment: thank you Victor for the notifications; hoping to get links for the following parts.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Article on Big Data @ Work Study

Michael J. Schroeck: How to Make Real-World Use of Big Data
(Huffington Post Tech, published today April 4, 2013) 

* the "Big Data @ Work Study," conducted by IBM's Institute of Business Value and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford

[posted by FQuattri]

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

TWeds at TWC: past and upcoming events

TWeD Talk: Semantic Web Development Methodology in Practice: The iChoose Ontology as a Use CaseTWeD Talk: Semantic Web Development Methodology in Practice: The iChoose Ontology as a Use Case

Tetherless World Constellation at Renssealer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY


Past events: TWeD Talk, Wednesday, April 03, 7pm ET

A team of collaborators from the University of Albany and TWC RPI introduced the NIST-funded Generalized Ontology Evaluation Framework (GOEF) and discussed its application in ontology-oriented projects.
About the TWed Talks
* Informal overview talks and tutorials on TWC projects and topics of interest
* No lectures, interactive sessions 
* "Hackspaces" during TWeds, inspired by the Hackerspace movement
* TWed Talks from previous terms: archived 

Upcoming events
**Speakers and presenters pf the TWed Talks are cordially invited to give feedback on the past and upcoming meetings on our blog**
[posted by: FQuattri]

IAOA Summer School 2013: extended deadline

*** Extended deadline for IAOA Summer School 2013 ***
http://vespucci.org/programme

> Deadline for registration & travel grant: April 15, 2013

> Summer School: June 3-7, 2013, Fiesole (IT): "Ontologies and models for integrated assessments of multiple-scale processes"

> A IAOA and Vespucci initiative for the advancement of geographic information in science

[posted by: FQuattri]

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Update on OntologySummit 2013 - past and upcoming events

The main live-action hackathon HC-05 and HC-06 activities are over now. 
They have spanned across the last weekend and have brought to interesting results and a plenty of documents collectively drawn.
We were among the observers of the events and thank their team members for the many insights.

The OntologySummit 2013 experience is a great chance to take a look at the previous summits, the OntologySummit 2011 and OntologySummit 2012

In the following what's coming up in the next weeks (also reported in the open IAOA Events calendar):

*Thu 4 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-12 - "Synthesis-II"
- Co-chairs: Professor Michael Gruninger & Dr. Matthew West
- see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_04

*Thu 11 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-13 - "Communique Draft Review"
- Co-chairs: Dr. Amanda Vizedom & Dr. Fabian Neuhaus
- see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_11

*Thu 18 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-14 - "Final Communique Review"
- Co-chairs: Dr. Fabian Neuhaus  & Dr. Amanda Vizedom - see
developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_18

*Thu 25 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-15 - "Pre-Sympoisum Preparation"
- Co-chairs: Mr. Mike Dean  & Dr. Ram Sriram - see
developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_25


Also check single Hackathon & Clinics activities.
 

[posted by: FQuattri]