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Here you will find all the necessary information to see what the association is for, what it might do for you, and how you can join.
An IAOA Extraordinary Assembly (virtual meeting) will be held from May 6 to May 12.
The IAOA Assembly has two topics: proposed changes in the IAOA Statute and the 2011 IAOA Financial Statement. Votes are cast electronically. Members can vote by accessing the Member's Area during the Assembly meeting. Further information will be accessible from the Member's Area starting from April 23 (Monday).
Ontology Summit 2012: Ontology for Big Systems
This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD, and is the 7th in the series of 3-month open annual events, by and for the Ontology Community and their collaborators. The Summit culminates in a 2-day Ontology Summit workshop/symposium which will be held on April 12 & 13, 2012 at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the greater Washington, DC Area (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA to be exact.)
Registration for the Ontology Summit 2012_Workshop & Symposium is now open - see: OntologySummit2012/WorkshopRegistration ... please register to attend now! ... participation is free-of-charge (and both on-site and remote participation are supported)!
FOIS 2012: Registration now open
The International Conferences on Formal Ontology in Information Systems are IAOA's flagship conference series. Its seventh edition will be held on July 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria, together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012). Early bird registration ends April 15. Grants available for IAOA student members. Calls for posters and workshop papers still open.
First Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis: Registration now open
The school will take place in Trento (Italy) on July 16-20, 2012, the week just before FOIS 2012. Limited attendance! Early bird registration end April 16. Grants available for students.
Membership renewals for 2012 are always open, see this link on the joining page. If you have lost your credentials, ask for a password reset. Membership fees for 2012 here.
Ontology Summit 2012: Ontology for Big Systems
This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD, and is the 7th in the series of 3-month open annual events, by and for the Ontology Community and their collaborators.
The Summit culminates in a 2-day Ontology Summit workshop/symposium which will be held on April 12 & 13, 2012 at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the greater Washington, DC Area (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA to be exact.)
Registration for the Ontology Summit 2012_Workshop & Symposium is now open - see: OntologySummit2012/WorkshopRegistration ... please register to attend now! ... participation is free-of-charge (and both on-site and remote participation are supported)!
- in particular, registration for on-site attendance is mandatory (due to the venue being a government facility), and the deadline to get registered is 6-Apr-2012. Please register for on-site attendance at the NIST event page via this link.
- see details about registration for remote participation here.
The school will take place in Trento (Italy) the week just before FOIS 2012 in Graz (Austria).
The FOIS 2012 Call for Papers is now closed, see here.
The International Conferences on Formal Ontology in Information Systems are IAOA's flagship conference series. Its seventh edition will be held on July 24-27, 2012 in Graz, Austria, together with the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2012).
Renewals for 2012 are always open
Members who haven't renewed yet for 2012 have had their access to the member's area suspended after January 31rst.
Former members can always renew through the link on the joining page.
If you have lost your credentials, ask for a password reset.
Membership fees for 2012 can be seen here.
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