Meetings and Events

Upcoming NCBO-Sponsored Dissemination and Training Events

See Dissemination Wiki for upcoming dissemination and training events.

NCBO-Sponsored Dissemination and Training Events 2005-2012

Bio-Ontologies 2012 Long Beach, CA July 13-14, 2012

• NCBO Web services: Powering Semantically Aware Applications

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, Austria, July 21-25, 2012.

• Includes Tutorial on NCBO Web Services and the Development of Semantic Applications

Semantics of Biodiversity

• University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Lawrence, KS, May 16-18, 2012,
• Barry Smith presentations on Youtube

Immunology Ontologies and Their Applications in Processing Clinical Data

• Buffalo, NY, June 11-13, 2012.

CTSA Ontology Tutorial

• Baltimore, MD, April 24, 2012.

Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop

• Baltimore, MD, April 25-26, 2012.

Introduction to Bio-Ontologies and Their Applications

• Stanford University, CA, March 15, 2012.

AMIA CRI Demo

• San Francisco, CA, March 22, 2012.

NCBO Hackathon

• Stanford University, CA, March 26-27, 2012.

Introduction to Bio-Ontologies

• New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY, February 5, 2012.

SWAT4LS Tutorial: NCBO Web Services and Development of Semantic Applications

• London, UK, December 7-9, 2011

DBCLS Hackathon

• Kyoto, Japan, August 22-26, 2011

2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology ICBO ↑

• Videos of all presentations and discussions are available here
• Buffalo, NY. Workshops and tutorials: July 26-27, 2011. Conference: July 28-30, 2011.

How to Build a Biomedical Ontology ↑

• Atlanta, GA, June 29, 2011.
• Barry Smith presentations on Youtube

The Importance of Biomedical Ontology for Dental Research, General Session of the International Association for Dental Research ↑

• San Diego, CA, March 16-19, 2011.

Infectious Disease Ontology Dissemination Workshop ↑

• Baltimore, MD, December 8-9, 2010.

Introduction to Ontology Building ↑

• Tutorial, University at Buffalo, October 23, 2010.

Medinfo Workshop on Infectious Disease Ontology↑

• September 9-15, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa,

W3C Workshop – RDF Next Steps↑

• June 26-27, 2010, Stanford, CA.

Formal Ontology in Information Systems ↑

• Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 2010.

Ontology Summit 2010: Creating the Ontologists of the Future ↑

• March 15-16, 2010, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
• Co-sponsored by the National Center for Ontological Research, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Ontolog Forum, and the International Association for Ontology and Its Applications
• Communique

3rd Interdisciplinary Ontology Conference ↑

• February 26-28, 2010, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• Conference co-sponsored with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research
• Barry Smith, Riichiro Mizoguchi and Sumio Nakagawa (eds.), Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of the Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting (Tokyo, Japan, February 27-28, 2010), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2010.

Ontologies for the Virtual Physiological Human ↑

• February 14, 2010, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

The Future of the Foundational Model of Anatomy

• November 11-12, 2009, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Discussion Forum

From Aristotle to the Universal Core: Ontology Training Event ↑

• October 10-11, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored with the University at Buffalo
• Webcast

Signs, Symptoms and Findings: Towards an Ontology for Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2009, University of Milan, Biccaca, Italy
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop, co-sponsored by the Italian National Research Council
• Follow-up from 2008 NCBO Clinical Phenotypes meeting

International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) ↑

• July 27-29, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• Co-sponsored by the National Center for Ontological Research and the University at Buffalo
• Proceedings

From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology ↑

• July 25-26, 2009, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Tutorial co-located with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO); Faculty: Werner Ceusters, Alan Ruttenberg, Barry Smith
• Webcast

International Consensus Workshop: Convergence on an Orofacial Pain Taxonomy ↑

• Mar 30-Apr 1, 2009, Miami, FL
• Co-sponsored by the International Association for Dental Research
• Slides; Handout: "What is an Ontology and Why is it Important?"

Joint JCOR-NCBO International Biomedical Ontology Workshop ↑

• Feb 27-Mar 1, 2009, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan as part of the InterOntology09 meeting
• Co-organized with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• January 5, 2009, Boston, MA as part of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
• Report

Signs, Signs, Symptoms and Findings: First Steps Toward an Ontology of Clinical Phenotypes ↑

• September 3-4, 2008, Dallas, TX
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Publication; Ontology; Follow-Up Meeting

How to Make Useful Ontologies for Biomedicine ↑

• July 19, 2008, Toronto, Canada.
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2008 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)
• Slides

Evolutionary Biology and Ontologies ↑

• June 20, 2008, Minneapolis, MN
• Held in conjunction with the Evolution 2008 meeting.
• Co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
• Report

The Ontology of Relations ↑

• May 19-20, 2008, Denver, CO
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• April 12-13, 2008, Buffalo, NY
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith)
• Webcast

Ontologies of Cellular Networks ↑

• March 27-28, 2008, Newark, NJ
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Publication

Joint JCOR-NCBO International Biomedical Ontology Workshop ↑

• February 26-27, 2008, Tokyo, Japan, organized in conjunction with InterOntologies 08
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop, co-sponsored with the Japanese Center for Ontological Research

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontologies and Text Mining for Life Sciences ↑

• July 23-27, 2007: Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• Organizers: Ulf Leser, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann and Michael Ashburner
• Proceedings

Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to Make and Use Them ↑

• July 21, 2007, Vienna, Austria
• NCBO Tutorial at ISMB 2007 (Faculty: Nigam Shah and Barry Smith)

Reasoning with Biomedical Information: Training Course in Logic for Biomedical Research ↑

• June 20-23, 2007, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Training Workshop, organized in conjunction with the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, German

Clinical Trial Ontology ↑

• May 16-17 2007, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• OCRe Ontology

Dagstuhl Seminar: Ontology Interoperability in Biomedicine ↑

• March 27-30, 2007, Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Seminar Report

The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation ↑

• December 21, 2006
• Ontolog Forum Talk by Barry Smith: Slides;Audio; Publication

Phenotype Ontology ↑ Announcement

• December 1-2, 2006, Clark Center, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Connecting BioPAX to Other Biomedical Ontologies

• November 20-21, 2006, MIT, Boston, MA
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Barry Smith)

Panel on the Future of HL7 ↑

• AMIA Anual Symposium, November 14, 2006, Washington DC
• Audio; Smith Slides; Ceusters Slides

Genomics Knowledge Representation for Clinical Trials ↑

• AMIA Annual Symposium, November 12, 2006, Washington DC
• Tutorial (Faculty: Nigam Shah, Barry Smith, and others)

Biomedical Imaging Ontologies ↑

• AMIA Annual Symposium, November 11, 2006, Washington DC,
• Follow-Up Meeting to NCBO Dissemination Workshop on the Ontology of Images

Biomedical Ontology in Action ↑

• November 8, 2006, Baltimore, MD
• Symposium of the Working Group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation of the American Medical Informatics Association (KR-MED)
• Publication

Ontology of Diseases ↑

• November 6-7, 2006, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop organized in association with the FOIS 2006 (Formal Ontology and Information Systems) Conference

Ontology Development ↑

• September 11-13, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
• Genomics Standards Consortium Workshop, co-sponsored with the National Institute for Environmental e-Science (NIEeS)

Anatomy Ontology Workshop ↑

• September 8-9, 2006, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Publication1; Publication2; Ontology

Tutorial on Standards and Ontologies ↑

• August 27, 2006, Maastricht, Netherlands.
• NCBO Tutorial, organized in conjunction with the Medical Informatics Europe 2006 Conference (Faculty: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters)
• Publication

Ontologies for Biomedicine – How to Make and Use Them ↑

• August 14-18, 2006. Stanford University
• Tutorial at [IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics, 2006 http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2006/index.html] Conference (Faculty: Amar Das, Nigam Shah)

On the Need and Utility of Ontologies ↑"

• Jul 30-August 4, 2006, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Presentation by Michael Ashburner at the Conference: In Silico Analysis of Proteins - Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Swiss-Prot.

Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO) 2nd Workshop ↑.

• July 24-28, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, Hinxton, UK
• This meeting led to creation of OBI Ontology for Biomedical Investigations;

Ontology Visualization with Jambalaya ↑

• July 23-26, 2006, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Tutorial (Faculty: Chris Callendar)

Scientific Ontologies: NCBC Special Interest Group Meeting ↑

• July 17-19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• i2b2, NAMIC and NCBO sponsored session at NCBC All Hands Meeting [1]

Ontology: A Vision for the Future and Its Realization ↑

• July 19, 2006, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Presentation by Mark Musen and Barry Smith at NCBC All Hands Meeting [2]
• Musen Slides; Smith Slides

Training Course in Biomedical Ontologies ↑

• May 21-24, 2006, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
• NCBO Training Event (Faculty: Olivier Bodenreider, Werner Ceusters, Mark Musen, Barry Smith), organized jointly with the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, German

Phenotype Annotation Meeting ↑

• May 17-20, 2006, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop

Principles of Biomedical Ontology Design ↑

• March 31-April 3, 2006, St. Croix
• NCBO Tutorial by Barry Smith at the Gene Ontology Consortium Meeting
• Publication

The Ontology of Images ↑

• March 24-25, 2006, Stanford, CA
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Led to establishment of standards for BIRNLex Ontology
• Webcast

Ontology Workshop: Focus on Immunology ↑

• March 21-22, 2006, Gaitherburg, MD
• Sponsored by NIAID/DAIT at the 2006 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Annual Meeting
• Publication; Ontology

Navigating the Translational Researcher Through a Complex of Animal and Biological Resources ↑

• March 6-7, 2006, Bethesda, MD
• Presentation by Monte Westerfield on Animal Models and Ontologies

BIRN ontology workshop

• February 28-March 1, 2006, Stanford, CA
• Tutorial by Barry Smith: "Critical Review of BIRN Ontologies" Part 1 Part 2
• NCBO Dissemination Workshop
• Led to creation of BIRNLex ontology

Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FuGO): First Workshop ↑

• February 13-15, 2006, Philadelphia, PA
• Publication

International Biocurator Meeting ↑

• December 8-11, 2005, Asilomar, CA
• Attending: Sima Misra, Chris Mungall, Monte Westerfield

Phenotype Ontology Content Workshop ↑

• Nov. 19-20, 2005, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
• Attending: Michael Ashburner, John Day-Richter, George Gkoutos, Suzanna Lewis, Chris Mungall, Mark Musen, Erik Segerdell, Nigam Shah, Monte Westerfield

Workshop on Bio-Ontologies ↑

• October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY
• Presenting: Suzanna Lewis, Frank Hartel, Sumi Yoshikawa, Olivier Bodenreider

Making Ontologies Better ↑

• NCBO Training Workshop (Faculty: David Hill and Barry Smith)
• October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY
• Slides