The Ontologists go to Washington

This week I traveled to DC to participate in Ontology Summit 2009. The workshop this year  was a part of the NIST Interoperability Week 2009 and featured a coming  together of folks from the ontology community and the standards community.  I felt the atmosphere in the room was very energetic and constructive.  In addition to fostering coomunication, we also had a goal of endorsing some projects that highlighted collaboration in these two domains. To illustrate how positive the atmosphere was at one point instead of voting for the 4 best projects to endorse, the group unanimously endorsed all of the projects proposed.  You can read more about it in the communiqe that was issued as a result of the workshop.