=Paper=
{{Paper
|id=None
|storemode=property
|title=None
|pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-728/Preface.pdf
|volume=Vol-728
}}
==None==
<pdf width="1500px">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-728/Preface.pdf</pdf>
<pre>
                                      Preface


This volume collects all contributions presented at the Iberoamerican
Meeting on Ontological Research, held on May 16th, 2011 in the beautiful
and charming city of Gramado, Brazil. This meeting occurred under the
umbrella of the International Outreach program of the International
Association for Ontologies and Applications (IAOA – www.iaoa.org), and was
organized in the context of the 6th Iberoamerican Conference on Telematics
– CITA 2011.

This successful meeting promoted a scientific gathering for the different
groups doing research related to Ontological Engineering and Applications of
Ontology in Iberoamerica. There were presentations of research groups
from all over Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, covering a wide spectrum of
domains (Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Industrial Enterprises,
Software Development, Biodiversity), applications (Data Management and
Information integration, Semantic Interoperability, Text Extraction), and
ontological levels.

We would like to express our gratitude to the authors for submitting their
research agendas to the meeting, and we sincerely hope that this important
initiative contributes to increase the community self-awareness and to
foster collaboration opportunities among research groups, thus fomenting
the creation of a de facto Iberoamerican Community on Ontological
Engineering in the future.



                                                                                      Sincerely,

                                                                 The workshop organizers

                            Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil
               José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
                 Fernanda Baião, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Brazil

</pre>