As you know, the Eighth International Protege Conference will be held July
18-21, 2005 in Madrid, Spain.

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 the Protege users to meet the Protege
team, and to learn about our current activities and plans.

Registration for the Protege Conference will open in mid March.

The conference will include one day of tutorials and small focused
workshops 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/2005/.

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

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing as many of you as
possible in July.

The Protege Team