| February 12, 2009 |
New webpage for the AHRC funded research project at the University of Durham entitled The New Ontology of the Mental Causation Debate being led by Dr. S. C. Gibb and Prof. E. J. Lowe. |
| March 15, 2007 |
The Department of Medical
Informatics, University Hospital Freiburg joins ECOR. |
| February 22, 2007 |
In November 2007 Mathias
Brochhausen co-organizes the 1st International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW
2007) at the 26th Conference on Conceptual
Modeling (ER 2007) together with Martin Doerr and Han Hyoil. |
| December 1, 2006 |
Mathias Brochhausen
succeeds Nicola Guarino as Executive Director of ECOR. |
| March 1, 2006 |
Nicola Guarino replaced Werner Ceusters as Executive Director of ECOR. Ceusters has moved to SUNY at
Buffalo, NY. He is now member of the Advisory Board of ECOR. |
| November 7th, 2005 |
The Bremen Ontology Group, an ECOR member, has an open
position for an ontologist.  |
| October 21, 2005 |
Barry Smith was nominated
member of the Organising Committee and Werner Ceusters of the Programme
Committee of the Third International Workshop on PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS (WSPI 2006), May 3-4, 2006, Saarbrücken (Germany).
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| October 18, 2005 |
Werner Ceusters will
participate as observer for ECOR in the NCOR Planning Meeting (October 27, 2005) which is one of the many
meetings taking place around the Inaugural
Event of the USA-based National Center for Ontological
Research.
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| October 18, 2005 |
Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith joined the Programme Committee for FOIS-2006.
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| October 13, 2005 |
ECOR participates in two newly approved projects: Q-Rec in
Europe, and cBIO in the United States. |
| July 7th, 2005 |
Werner Ceusters was nominated
member of the Programme Committee for the ISWC Workshop Semantic Web Case Studies and Best Practices for
eBusiness as part of SWCASE05. |
| June 21, 2005 |
ECOR will hold its inaugural meeting on July 27-28, 2005. The
first day is open to all participants. Registration is required but attendance is free. The second day is
reserved for members and partners of ECOR only. |
| May 19, 2005 |
Werner Ceusters was nominated
Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Chapter of the KnowledgeWeb Ontology Outreach Advisory. |
| February 05, 2005 |
ECOR welcomes the Austrian Centre for Ontological Research as
a new member.
ACOR is a scientific centre established to improve the communication among philosophers working in ontology
in Austria and other countries in Central Europe. |
| January 28, 2005 |
Werner Ceusters was selected
to lead the Innomed (European Platform on Innovative Medicines) working group on Logical data layer and
Knowledge Representations. |
| December 16, 2004 |
Comments on the Eurorec 2004 Ontology Workshop sollicited.
Participants to the Eurorec 2004 Satellite Conference on Ontology Interoperability of patient records
and biomedical informatics are welcome to provide input to a follow-up document. |
| November 29, 2004 |
The Human-Computer Studies Laboratory of the Universiteit
van Amsterdam (UvA) becomes an ECOR partner.
The Human-Computer Studies Lab (HCS), formally known as SWI, has a long tradition in modeling and knowledge
representation which started in the European projects KADS and CommonKADS creating a methodology for the
development of knowledge based systems. |
| November 23, 2004 |
The Geneva Centre for Ontology joins ECOR.
The Centre for Ontology of Geneva, created by the concerted actions of persons involved in three different
disciplines, but with a common understanding on the need to promote the development of better ontologies on
sound formal bases, becomes member of ECOR. |
| September 21, 2004 |
Werner Ceusters was selected
as member of the Programme Committee of the Dutch-Flemish Research Programme for Dutch Language and Speech
Technology (STEVIN).
In order to stimulate the technology sector so as to increase its innovative power, and in order to improve
or at least secure the position of the Dutch language in the modern information and communication society,
the Nederlandse Taalunie launches the Dutch-Flemish Language and Speech Technology Programme STEVIN. The
programme will run for 5 years. () |
| August 08, 2004 |
ECOR's Member
IFOMIS moves to Saarbrücken
The Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) was founded in April 2002 as part of the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Leipzig utilizing a grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. As from September 01,
2004, IFOMIS will be based in Saarbrücken. |
