We are pleased to announce that the 11th International Protege
Conference will be held June 23-26, 2009 in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Please mark these dates on your calendar and plan to
join us for a few days this summer.

The conference is a forum to discuss ontology development and
management, applications using ontologies, common problems and
solutions. The conference is also an opportunity for Protege users to
meet the Protege team, and to learn about our current activities and
plans.

The conference will include one day of tutorials and small focused
workshops on June 23 and two and a half days of the main
conference. The main program will include presentations, a poster
session, and a demo session. Thus, we would like to solicit your
contributions for all the events at the conference. You can find the
detailed calls for contributions at the conference Web site:
http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2009/. There will be a review
process for abstracts and the number of presentations will be limited.
All events at the conference will address the following topics (the
list is not exhaustive):

- ontology development
- frames vs description logic
- standard terminologies
- biomedical applications
- other innovative applications
- interoperability between different formats
- plug-in development
- visualization tools
- project management
- ontology tools
- reasoning and inference
- collaboration tools
- ontology repository

The deadlines for submissions are as follows:

Tutorials and Workshop (no more than 2 pages): March 2, 2009
Presentations/Posters/Demos (no more than 3 pages): April 6, 2009

If you have questions, you can contact the organizers by email at
protege-conf-organizers@lists.stanford.edu

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing as many of you as
possible in June 2009!

The Protege Team