OntologySummit2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses    (WS4)

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from DennisThomas    (WS5)

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Question 1 Respondant Info    (WS7)

      Name:  Dennis L. Thomas    (WS8)

Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)    (WS9)

      [  ]  Formal ontology communities
      [  ]  Semantic Web communities
      [  ]  Linguistic communities
      [  ]  Concept Map community
      [  ]  Topic Map community
      [  ]  SEARCH communities
      [  ]  Web 2.0 communities
      [  ]  Thesauri community
      [  ]  Taxonomy communities
      [  ]  Metadata communities
      [  ]  XML communities
      [X]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
      [  ]  System Architecture communities
      [  ]  Biomedical communities
      [  ]  Standards Development communities
      [  ]  Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (WSA)

Question 2a Representing - I represent the perspective of the following constituency/community (please pick one; if you want to provide input from more than one perspective, please return a separate form):    (WSB)

      [  ]  1. Formal ontology communities
      [  ]  2. Semantic Web communities
      [  ]  3. Linguistic communities
      [  ]  4. Concept Map community
      [  ]  5. Topic Map community
      [  ]  6. SEARCH communities
      [  ]  7. Web 2.0 communities
      [  ]  8. Thesauri community
      [  ]  9. Taxonomy communities
      [  ]  10. Metadata communities
      [  ]  11. XML communities
      [X]  12. Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
      [  ]  13. System Architecture communities
      [  ]  14. Biomedical communities
      [  ]  15. Standards Development communities
      [  ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (WSE)

Question 2b Specific Community    (WSF)

      or sub-community I am affiliated with:  none    (WSG)

Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an:    (WSH)

      [  ]  1. informed layman
      [X]  2. practitioner
      [  ]  3. expert
      [  ]  4. other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (WSK)

Question 3a Ontology Value -    (WSL)

      "It takes the complexity, confusion and guess work out of ontology construction 
       by allowing the Mark 3 platform to self-build and orgainize ontologies into 
       high fidelity knowledgebase products."    (WSM)

Question 3b Ontology Issues -    (WSN)

      "Since the Mark 3 platform is not in beta and people cannot use it to test 
       our assertions, there is no reason for them to stop using currently 
       available ontology software."    (WSO)

Question 3c Ontology Problems -    (WSP)

      "No"    (WSQ)

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -    (WSR)

      "Only Knowledge Foundations'  Mark 3 theory-based semantic technology."    (WSS)

Question 4aGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WST)

      Term:  Machine understandable concept
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WSU)

Question 4a1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WSV)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [X]  5. 5 - almost always    (WSW)

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -    (WSX)

      "To us, ontologies have nothing to do with language, they have everything to do 
       with the language of thought.  An ontology, machine understood concept, is 
       defined according to its relationship to other concepts, ideas and 
       thought patterns.  It is not descriptive."    (WSY)

Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WSZ)

      Term:  only words
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WT0)

Question 4b1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WT1)

      [X]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WT2)

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -    (WT3)

      "Language is ambiguous and arbitrary, therefore ontologies that are 
       langugage-based are descriptive, usually based on logic and therefore 
       artificial.  Axiomatic, language of thought ontologies, are value and 
       time based and correspond to a quantum world."    (WT4)

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WT5)

      Term:  Machine understood concept.
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WT6)

Question 4c1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WT7)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [X]  5. 5 - almost always    (WT8)

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -    (WT9)

      "In addition to language limits, structured software environments also 
       restrict the development of high fidelity ontologies because conventional 
       technologies cannot scale to integrate every possible ontological relationship 
       necessary to precisely convey its meaning.  In this regard, also, logic 
       plays a dominant role in W3C ontology construction, yet logic represents 
       only a small part in a quantum world."    (WTA)

Question 4dGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WTB)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WTC)

Question 4d1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WTD)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WTE)

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -    (WTF)

      "(Not Answered)"    (WTG)

Question 4eGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WTH)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WTI)

Question 4e1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WTJ)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WTK)

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -    (WTL)

      "(Not Answered)"    (WTM)

Question 4fGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WTN)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WTO)

Question 4f1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WTP)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WTQ)

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -    (WTR)

      "(Not Answered)"    (WTS)

Question 4gGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WTT)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss (definition):  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WTU)

Question 4g1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WTV)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WTW)

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -    (WTX)

      "(Not Answered)"    (WTY)

Question 4hGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (WTZ)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (WU0)

Question 4h1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (WU1)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (WU2)

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -    (WU3)

      "(Not Answered)"    (WU4)

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,    (WU5)

 a 'convener' is a participant who provides substantive contribution to the OntologySummit2007 
 initiative (through the online discourse, this survey, and other events leading to or during 
 the workshops and the written communique process), and    (WU6)
 a 'co-sponsor' is an organization who is providing technical or funding support (e.g. supporting 
 member(s) of its technical staff to participate as a 'convener'), and/or endorsing the objective 
 of this OntologySummit2007,    (WU7)
      [  ]  I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of OntologySummit2007
      [  ]  I will consider endorsing the OntologySummit2007 communique. Please send it to me for 
              review when it is ready. I will confirm my endorsement after the review.
      [  ]  I confirm that you may list my organization as a 'co-sponsor' for 
              OntologySummit2007 (details below).    (WU8)

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:    (WU9)

      Organization Name:  (Not Answered)
      Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered)    (WUA)

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