Past Events and Webinars
2017
Ontology Group Meeting, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 3-5pm, April 9, 2018
Systems Engineering Ontology Bootcamp, UB North Campus, January 26, 2018. Video
Ontology Group Meeting, Jeannette Martin Room, University at Buffalo, 3-5pm, November 20, 2017
- 1. Update on ISO
- 2. Extending BFO:object via treatment of levels of granularity
- 3. Capabilities from a BFO perspective
- 4. Introducing Erik Thomsen
Werner Ceusters talk on “Are linguistics-based event classifications useful for realism-based process classifications?“, Department of Philosophy, 141 Park Hall, University at Buffalo North Campus, noon, Friday, November 10, 2017 Abstract
CTS Ontology Workshop 2017, Microbiology for the CTSA: Ontological Approaches, Ann Arbor, October 25-26, 2017
Protein Ontology Consortium Workshop, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 11-12, 2017
Industry Ontologies Foundry: ASME Workshop 2017, Cleveland, August 6, 2017
IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies, Toronto, August 8-11, 2017
- The International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies
- Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations.
MatOnto Ontology Meeting, University at Buffalo, April 3-5, 2017
Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, March 13, 2017 Schedule: Group Meeting March 31, 2017
2016
Ontology Group Meeting, October 21, 2016
CTS Ontology Workshop 2016, Clinical Terminology Shock and Awe, Buffalo, NY, September 7-8, 2016
Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, April 25, 2016
- José M. Parente de Oliveira (ITA Brazil): “A Visual Formalism for BFO-Based Ontologies” Slides
- Hedi Karray (ENIT, Tarbes, France): “Applications of Ontologies in Astrophysics and Manufacturing Domains” Slides
- Mark Jensen (United Nations Environment Programme): “The UNEP Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO)” Slides
Organized jointly with the UB Center for Multisource Information Fusion
June 10, 2016
- 2pm Discussion on establishing an Industry Ontology Foundry, with talks by Barry Smith and Hedi Karay
- 3pm Presentation by Boran Brodaric on Water Feature Ontology and Timeless Wholes
May 19-20, 2016 Ontological Approaches to Sensor Data Analysis, Amherst, NY
March 21, 2016, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo
- Fabian Neuhaus talk on DOL: The Distributed Ontology Language
February 17-19, 2016 Gainesville, FL
Feb 2 and all Tuesdays until April 19 1-3:50pm, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo
- A series of seminars on various ontology-related topics, listed here.
Feb. 1, 2016, 567 Capen Hall, Buffalo Meeting on various ontology topics, including:
- Non-Coding RNA Ontology (Alan Ruttenberg)
- Ontology for Manufacturing (Francesco Furini)
- We propose an ontology focused on the representation of composite materials in general and what are called ‘Functionally Graded Materials’ (FGM) in particular. The scope of the ontology is to provide information about the components of such materials, the manufacturing processes involved in creating such materials, and different sorts of applications in dentistry and other fields. The ontology is developed using Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and parts of of Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI).
- Plant Life Cycle Ontology (Barry Smith)
2015
Meeting on Current UB Ontology Projects, IHI, 3pm, December 14, 2015
Information Meeting on Joint Doctrine Ontology, Herndon, VA 20171, September 16-17, 2015
The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 12-13, 2015
CTS Ontology Workshop 2015, Ontology in Practice. The Fourth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop. Charleston, SC, September 23-25, 2015
Symposium on Military Codes of Ethics, Buffalo, NY 14260, November 2, 2015
2014
Ontology and Imaging Informatics, Buffalo, NY, June 23-25, 2014
Information Artifact Ontologies, Workshop organized as part of the FOIS 2014 Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 22, 2014
Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, IHI, Buffalo, January 27, 2014
Maurizio Ferraris: The Ontology of Social Reality, Buffalo, March 10, 2014
Fabian Neuhaus: Computational Creativity, CTRC, Buffalo, March 21, 2014
2013
ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters, workshop organized in conjunction with Rho Federal Systems Division, Chapel Hill, NC, October 9-10, 2013
How to Advance Reusability of Immunology Data, Buffalo, July 23, 2013
OGMS Workshop, co-located with ICBO 2013, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 10, 2013
BFO 2.0 Meeting, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 10, 2013
OBO Foundry 101: Collaborative ontology development, tool support and semantic web, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 7, 2013
Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies, Montreal. Co-located with the Fourth International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO2013), July 7, 2013
Summer School for Quantitative Systems Immunology, Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA. For session on Immunology Ontology by Lindsay Cowell and Barry Smith, Tuesday June 11, 2013 see here, June 10-14, 2013.
PRO-PO-GO Ontology Workshop, Buffalo, May 15-16, 2013
Basic Formal Ontology Meeting, Buffalo, May 13-14, 2013
Ontologies for Information Integration, Buffalo, April 18, 2013. Press coverage of this event:
The challenges of big data for military, security and intelligence domains and Military Intelligence Tries To Tame Data ‘Monster’
First ImmPort Ontology Group Web Conference, Buffalo and Stanford, April 8, 2013
CTSA Ontology Workshop, Orlando, February 11-12, 2013.
2012
Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, Tutorial, Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2012
Basic Formal Ontology 2.0 Preliminary Development Workshop, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, National Center for Ontological Research. August 18-19, 2012
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Graz, Austria • July 22-25, 2012.
Formal Ontology in Information Systems Graz, Austria • July 25-28, 2012.
Basic Formal Ontology and the Signature Discovery Ontology, Buffalo, May 1-2, 2012.
Ontology Summit: Ontology for Big Systems, January-April, 2012
2011
Workshop on Ontology Driven Implementation of Semantic Services for the Enterprise Environment: ODISSEE, Washington DC, April 12-13, 2011
2010
An Introduction to Ontology Building (October 23, 2010)
The Future of the Electronic Health Record (September 22, 2010).
2009
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (July 24-26, 2009): [1]
Command and Control Core Ontology Exchange Meeting, National Center for Ontological Research and Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence, January 15-16, 2009, Buffalo NY
Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, October 21-22, 2009, Fairfax, VA
2008
Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, December 3-4, 2008, Columbia, MD
2007
Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, November 28-29, 2007, Columbia, MD.Proceedings
2006
Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, Columbia, MD, November 30-December 1, 2006
2005
NCOR Inaugural Event, October 27, 2005, Buffalo, NY.
NCOR Inaugural Event, Associated Workshop on Bio-Ontologies, October 28, 2005, Buffalo, NY. For associated presentations see here.
NCBO-Sponsored Dissemination and Training Events 2005-2015
International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Lisbon, July 27-30, 2015
The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 12-13, 20
Information Artifact Ontologies, Workshop organized as part of FOIS, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 22, 2014
5th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014), Houston, TX, October 6-9, 2014
- Georgetown, DC, June 18-19, 2014
Tutorial on Ontology for Image Informatics
- Buffalo, NY, June 23, 2014
Ontology and Imaging Informatics: Third Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop
- Buffalo, NY, June 24-25, 2014.
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 29-30, 2013
- Registration and Meeting Logistics here
PRO-PO-GO Meeting: Challenges of Ontology Coordination Across Organisms
- Buffalo, NY, May 15-16, 2013
- The goal of this meeting is to enhance ontology coordination in relation to plant genomics, proteomics and related fields. A special focus will be the ontological treatment of diseases and phenotypes in relation to all organisms.
- Orlando, FL, February 11-12, 2013
- This is the second meeting of the new IKFC Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group which has been established to leverage the use of common ontologies to support different aspects of information-driven clinical and translational research. The focus of the meeting is to explore new and existing uses of common ontologies to support sharing and discovery of data and resources, researcher networking, and particularly to support the evaluation of research.
- Paris, November 29, 2012
- AMIA 2012 Annual Symposium, November 3, 2012 Chicago, IL. Presented by Christopher Chute, James Cimino, and Mark Musen.
Overview Presentation for the NCBC Showcase
- November 8-9, 2012
- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC, July 30-August 3, 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
- 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.
- 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.
- San Francisco, CA, March 22, 2012.
- 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
- 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
Sequence Ontology Immunology Workshop: Focusing on Gene, Allele, HLA, and More ↑
- June 12-13th, 2007, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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 workshopAgenda
- February 28-March 1, 2006, Stanford, CA
- Tutorial by Barry Smith: “Critical Review of BIRN Ontologies” Part 1Part 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
NCBO Webinar Series
NCBO Webinar Series presentations occur via the Web and teleconference on a monthly basis. The exact date will vary from month to month but the NCBO webinars will occur at 10:00 am PT on Wednesdays. This series aims to showcase new projects, technologies and ideas in biomedical ontology.