The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) steering
committee invites tenders to host ICBO 2013.
Individuals and organizations can apply by sending a proposal[1] to the
ICBO Steering Committee (icbo-steer...@googlegroups.com) by June 8 2012.
(an email indicating a bid will arrive would be helpful.) The successful
bidder will be notified by June 15th. The ICBO steering committee will
announce the selected individual/organization during the ICBO 2012
conference.
Important dates
June 8th : Proposals due
June 15th Notification of results
July 25th: ICBO 2013 location announced publically
The ICBO constitution for the formation and longevity of the steering
committee and the ICBO conference process is, as yet, nascent. Initial
documentation is available at http://www.icbo-conference.org/icbo
[1] Proposals need only be short, one side of A4 or US letter, 11 point
Times etc. with sensible margins. The proposal should contain:
* The name and institution of the local ICBO organiser ;
* That the host has a venue for up to 200 participants;
* The range of dates for the conference;
* A brief outline of how the conference wil be run to attract a broad
range of the biomedical ontology community;
* That the hosts will use the ICBO steering committee to help the
success of the conference.
The ICBO Steering Committee
--
Robert Stevens
Reader in BioHealth Informatics
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
robert.stev...@manchester.ac.uk
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~stevensr
http://robertdavidstevens.wordpress.com
http://ontogenesis.knowledgeblog.org
KBO
