scholarly journals ISMB 2003 Bio-ontologies SIG and Sixth Annual Bio-ontologies Meeting Report

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 663-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Lord ◽  
Robert Stevens
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Text Processing ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Meeting Report ◽  
The Many ◽  
First Time

The Annual Bio-Ontologies meeting (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevens/meeting03/) has now been running for 6 consecutive years, as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. It met in Brisbane, Australia, this summer, the first time it was held outside North America or Europe. The bio-ontologies meeting is 1 day long and normally has around 100 attendees. This year there were many fewer, no doubt a result of the distance, global politics and SARS. The meeting consisted of a series of 30 min talks with no formal peer review or publication. Talks ranged in style from fairly formal and complete pieces of work, through works in progress, to the very informal and discursive. Each year's meeting has a theme and this year it was ‘ontologies, and text processing’. There is a tendency for those submitting talks to ignore the theme completely, but this year's theme obviously struck a chord, as half the programme was about ontologies and text analysis (http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/˜stevensr/meeting03/programme.html). Despite the smaller size of the meeting, the programme was particularly strong this year, meaning that the tension between allowing time for the many excellent talks, discussion and questions from the floor was particular keenly felt. A happy problem to have!

scholarly journals The Seventh Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting Moat House Hotel, Glasgow, 30 July 2004

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 498-500
Author(s):  
Phillip Lord ◽  
Robert Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Gene Ontology ◽  
Functional Genomics ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Biological Applications ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of

The Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting [1] has now reached its seventh consecutive year, running as a special interest group (SIG) of the much larger ISMB conference. This year's meeting in Glasgow had approximately 100 attendees. Since the advent of the Gene Ontology, which coincided with the first Bio-Ontologies Meeting, we have seen a year-on-year strengthening of the field; bio-ontologies has moved from being dominated by computer science to be led by biological applications; discussion is less about ‘what is an ontology?’ and more about ‘how to build an ontology which is fit for purpose?’. This strengthening of the field can be seen elsewhere. Both the main ISMB conference and this year's Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) [2] have seen a large number of submissions to their ontologies track. For the first time a selection of the papers from the SIG is being published in this issue ofComparative and Functional Genomics. We hope that this will complement the publications of the larger conferences, bringing to a wider audience the cutting edge research that characterizes the Bio-Ontologies SIG.

scholarly journals Meeting Report: Metagenomics, Metadata and Meta-analysis; (M3) Special Interest Group at ISMB 2009

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Field ◽  
Iddo Friedberg ◽  
Peter Sterk ◽  
Renzo Kottmann ◽  
Frank Oliver Glöckner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Special Interest Group ◽  
Meeting Report

The British Library Centre for Conservation

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Vicki Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Special Interest Group ◽  
British Library ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Technical Services

On May 16th 2007 the British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) was opened, providing Conservation staff and Sound Archive Technical Services staff with a new purpose-built base from which to operate. The new building allowed them to be brought together onto the same site as their colleagues and co-located them with the collections for the first time. A BLCC-based programme of professional development events, special interest group events and public tours is providing Collection Care, Conservation, and the Sound Archive Technical Section with a public profile and a voice for communicating key messages about the Library’s stewardship of its collections and about caring for collections generally. The Centre, already a milestone in the history of collection care at the Library, is continuing an existing and ambitious change programme, giving the perfect opportunity to examine all aspects of operations and make changes of benefit to the Library and its staff.

Special Interest Group 13 (Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders)

ASHA Leader ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Suiter ◽  
Laurie Sterling ◽  
Lynne Brady Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Swallowing Disorders ◽  
Special Interest Group ◽  
Group 13
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