2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting

[John Beverley]

2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

We are pleased to invite you to the 2023 Basic Formal Ontology Summit Meeting. This three-day event will be held between May 23rd-25th, 2023. The aims of the conference are:

 

1.     to bring together researchers who have played an important role in the development and application of BFO, to highlight the practical impact and value of using BFO as a top-level architecture,

2.     to identify and work through outstanding issues experienced by users of BFO,

3.     (on day 3) to begin the creation of a set of BFO-conformant ontologies in the domain of government policy and data

 

Subsidiary goals are:

 

-       to showcase real-world examples of incorporation of BFO in development pipelines and their practical impacts

-       to promote collaboration across different groups of BFO users

-       to share case studies illustrating challenges arising in BFO use, evaluation, interpretation, and revision

-       to reveal differences in interpretation of BFO terms and relations, and of associated strategies for using BFO

-       to share strategies of evaluation of BFO from different user bases

-       to identify and disseminate strategies for improving the quality of BFO-based ontologies

LOCATION: University at Buffalo, Department of Philosophy, Buffalo, NY, 14260

KEYNOTES

We are also pleased to announce the following keynote speakers for the event: 

• Werner Ceusters, Division Chief, Biomedical Ontology Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• Alan Ruttenberg, Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange, University at Buffalo, School of Dental Medicine 
• Janna Hastings, Assistant Professor of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
• Ryan Riccucci, Division Chief, United States Border Patrol

If you wish to receive further information about this meeting, please write to john...@buffalo.edu, also specifying whether you are likely to attend (a) in person, (b) online.  

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

John Beverley (University of Buffalo, USA)

Barry Smith (University at Buffalo, USA)