Ontolog Series on "Database And Ontology" (Session-12) - Thu 24-Jan-2008 (133I)
- Session Chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co.) (17EW)
- Invited Speakers: Dr. Holger Knublauch (TopQuadrant) (17EX)
- Title: "Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology" (17EB)
- Archive: slides: 1-West . 2-Knublauch & audio recording of the session (mp3) (17EY)
Conference Call Details (17EZ)
- Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 (17F0)
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Attendees (17FT)
- Attended: (17FU)
- MatthewWest (17FW)
- HolgerKnublauch (17FX)
- PeterYim (17FY)
- Naicong Li (The Redlands Institute, University of Redlands) (17P4)
- DavidHarris (17XH)
- NancyWiegand (17LB)
- KevinTaylor (17PK)
- AdrianWalker (17L6)
- Bonnie Swart (Progeny Systems) (17X6)
- JoyceKoeneman (17WX)
- Rob Frost (BEA Systems, Inc) (17LD)
- PatCassidy (17XJ)
- BillMcCarthy (17XK)
- SusanTurnbull (17WY)
- BobSmith (17XL)
- RexBrooks (17WW)
- Paul Tazbaz (Wells Fargo) (17XM)
- DougHolmes (17X9)
- KenBaclawski (17XF)
- MarcoNeumann (17L5)
- Ross Dahman (Huntleigh) (17X5)
- EvanWallace (17XA)
- BrandKNiemann (17XC)
- Scott Henninger (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (17XN)
- Mustafa Jarrar (1A4H)
- DilvanMoreira (17XP)
- SteveRay (17XR)
- LisaColvin (17X8)
- Registered (and probably joined us after the roll call): (17FV)
- Elizabeth Florescu (Millennium Project, WFUNA) (17L9)
- Kurt Cagle (Burton Group) (17LC)
- RaviSharma (17FZ)
- TatianaMalyuta (17WU)
- ToddSchneider (17WV)
- WaltTruszkowski (17WZ)
- Tim Swanson (Semantic Arts) (17X0)
- Harry Harlow (Eli Lilly) (17X1)
- Peter Eirich (Johns Hopkins U, Applied Physics Lab.) (17X2)
- DavidHay (17X4)
- Eric Peterson (McDonald Bradley) (17XD)
- Miika Nevalainen (TopQuadrant) (18GE)
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Background (17G2)
This is the 12th and final episode (for now) of the "Database and Ontology series" of talks and discussions, during which this community will be exploring the landscape, issues and interactions between databases and ontologies. (17G3)
This is a community-driven set of activities, and is probably long overdue. On 15-Aug-2006, TatianaMalyuta (who just joined the community after participating at our 23-Jul-2006 face-to-face workshop at Stanford, brought up her request for the Ontolog Forum to delve into the subject of "Database and Ontologiy." An almost unprecedented flurry of online responses were received from the community. It was decided that we could systematically pursue the subject by mounting a mini-series on the matter at hand. (17G4)
A planning meeting for what has started out as a mini-series took place on 31-Aug-2006. MatthewWest was invited to champion the effort, and a "Program & Technical Advisory Team" was formed, comprising MatthewWest (Lead), AdrianWalker, AtillaElci, ChrisPartridge, LeoObrst, PeterYim, SusieStephens & TatianaMalyuta. (17G5)
See also: DatabaseAndOntology (the 'project' homepage for this series) (17G6)
The community is requested to contribute their thoughts by posting to [ontolog-forum] or to the DatabaseAndOntology wiki page (and/or its subpages). We hope to accumulate and synthesize the knowledge gathered and compile it into a written deliverable (a paper or even a handbook) that we could publish this collaboratively authored work to other relevant media and channels (like relevant conferences or the wikipedia.) (17G7)
Agenda & Proceedings: "Database And Ontology" Series Session-12 (17G8)
- Session Format: this is a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call. (17G9)
- Agenda: (17GA)
- 1. Opening by the Session Co-Chair - Dr. Matthew West (17GB)
- 2. we'll go around with a self-introduction of participants (10~15 minutes) - All - we'll skip this if we have more than 20 participants (in which case, it will be best if members try to update their namesake pages on this wiki prior to the call so that everyone can get to know who's who more easily.) (17GC)
- 3. Introduction of the invited speaker (17GD)
- 4. Invited Speaker Presentation (60~75 minutes) - Dr. Holger Knublauch (17GE)
- 5. Q & A and Open discussion by all participants (20~30 minutes) (17GF)
- 6. Summary / Conclusion / Announcements - Dr. Matthew West (~5 minutes) (17GG)
Title: Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology (17GH)
Abstract (by HolgerKnublauch): (17EC)
One of the key capabilities of Semantic Web Technology is its support for open, linked data models. The open architecture of RDF and OWL promises to simplify the integration of data from heterogeneous sources to lift legacy data into linked information spaces. In particular we encounter many customers who have large amounts of existing data in relational databases, XML files and spreadsheets. In this talk we will present approaches to lift these data sources (and other formats) into Semantic Web languages, and present existing tool support in the context of the TopBraid Suite. Based on these import capabilities, we will show how open standards like SPARQL can be used to define mappings between heterogeneous schemas. We will also report about case studies from commercial and government projects to illustrate how integrated semantic data models can be used to generate business intelligence reports, mash-ups and other forms of model-driven output. (17GI)
About the Invited Speaker: (17EE)
[picture of Dr. Holger Knublauch] 
(17GJ)
Dr. Holger Knublauch is Vice President for product development at TopQuadrant. He is also the lead developer of the TopBraid product family at TopQuadrant. He is furthermore well known in the Semantic Web community for his former role as the designer and developer of the original Protégé OWL Plugin. Holger holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ulm in Germany. (17GK)
Resources (17GL)
- Our speaker's prepared slides can be accessed by pointing your web browsers to the links below: (17GM)
- 1-MatthewWest (opening/closing remarks): "The Database & Ontology Series" (17GN)
- 2-HolgerKnublauch (Invited Talk): "Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology" (17X7)
- links to additional relevant resources: (17GO)
- the TopBraid suite of tools - see: http://www.topquadrant.com/topbraidsuite.html (17GP)
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- Session ended 2008.01.24 12:20 pm PST (17I7)
Audio Recording of this Session (17GZ)
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- Conference Date and Time: 24-Jan-2008 10:44am~12:20pm Pacific Standard Time (17H4)
- Duration of Recording: 1 Hour 36 Minutes (17H5)
- Recording File Size: 11.0 MB (in mp3 format) (17H6)
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