Buffalo Ontology Summer School

Tentative dates: either July 13-16, 2009 or July 20-23, 2009 (co-located with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, tentatively scheduled for July 17-20, 2009)

The Buffalo Ontology Summer School will comprise two types of events:

1. 2-day Classes

July 13-14 / 20-21 (proposals)

Neil Williams: The Ontology of Powers and Dispositions

David Hershenov: Metaphysics and Bioethics

Thomas Bittner and Maureen Donnelly: Spatial Ontology and Qualitative Reasoning

July 15-16 / 22-23

Barry Smith (Buffalo) and Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons): From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology

Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology

2. half-day Tutorials (proposals)

Fabian Neuhaus: Reasoning with First Order Logic

???: Reasoning with OWL

???: Protege

???: OBOEdit

???: PATO

???: Curating with OBO Foundry Ontologies

???: What Gene Ontology Curators Do

???: Chemical Ontology

???: The Environment Ontology

???: Cross-Products

???: Ontology and Text-Mining (Hunter?)