Practicalities

The conference will be held at the University of York, Campus West at the Humanities Research Center (Berrick Saul Building) except for the drinks reception which will take place in the department building 50 meters away).

You can find maps of the campus here.  If your hotel is in town you can walk to the University (it will be between 20 and 35 minutes walk, depending on the location) or take a bus. (instructions in the link above).

The lunch breaks are long so that we can have more discussion. The food outlets on campus are, however, not exactly Michelin level, but there are two pubs in the village which is about 10mn walk from the conference, and we can go there for a better overall experience.  The weather is cold at the moment, though it is meant to improve, but still it will not be packed-lunch-on-the-grass sort of weather. For the evenings there are plenty of places where we can go and we can decide then.

There is a small registration fee of £20 which can only be paid in cash unfortunately.  If you cannot pay in cash, we will sort something out when you are here (we will be able to take paypal in some way).

About OASIS

What is OASIS?

OASIS, Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics, is an umbrella organization for research about and around formal semantic ontology. It started as an international research network funded by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique from 2017 to 2021, and is continuing as a yearly in-person conference. In addition, our vision is to build a digital infrastructure that will allow the community to interact more online.

How can I be a part of OASIS? 

We're working on it! There will be two ways to interact with OASIS: receiving a newsletter tailored to your own particular interests, and being a member. Members will generate the content of the newsletter by posting just a few of their own publications or other items on the OASIS site each year, and will be welcome to have a profile in the People section of the OASIS site.

What we are building is the backend where members can post, as well as an automated (but friendly) system of email reminders to post. You can sign up to be notified when the newsletter and membership system are ready. After they go online, we have other ideas for building online community that we look forward to discussing with OASIS members.