JCOR
Joint NCBO-JCOR Tokyo Dissemination Workshop
On February 26-27, 2008 there took place in Tokyo the Inaugural Conference of the Japanese Center for Ontological Research ith funding support from the Japanese Ministry of Education and Research. A joint NCBO-JCOR Dissemination Workshop on Biomedical Ontologies was organized as part of this event. Approximately 80 persons participated. The program was as follows:
Thomas Bittner (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo): Ontology and Qualitative Medical Images Analysis
Werner Ceusters (New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo): Harmonization of Patient Assessment Instruments in the USA: A Compelling Case for Realism-Based Ontology
Shinsuke Fujita (Chiba University Hospital): Ontology based ICPC-3 revision to study the morbidity of chronic disease.
Ken Fukuda (Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology): The INOH pathway database: Curation, Annotation, Integration
Yu Lin (Kobe University): An Ontology of Genetic Susceptibility Factors for Diabetes Mellitus (OGSF-DM)
Jun Nakaya and Hiroshi Tanaka (Information Center for Medical Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University): Clinical Omics Ontology and National Projects in Japan (toward Social Information Infrastructure)
Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons / Neurocommons): The Semantic Web for Scientific Research: A ‘perfect storm’ for the development of Ontology
Barry Smith (NCBO): The Evaluation of Ontologies: Editorial Review vs. Democratic Ranking
Andrew Newman (University of Queensland, Australia): The BioMANTA Ontology: Integration of Protein-Protein Interaction Data
Other presentations from the JCOR inaugural meeting are included:
- Bill Andersen, Ontologies, Data Models, and Ontology
- Nicola Guarino, Ontologies, Conceptualizations, and Possible Worlds
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, Functional Ontology of Artifacts
- Barry Smith, [ The Evaluation of Ontologies]