ONTOLOG forum community http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage A podcast from the ONTOLOG Forum Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community of practice, whose membership will: * Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the development and application of both formal and informal ontologies. * Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort, as well as to the broader domain of eBusiness standardization efforts. * Strive to advance the field of ontological engineering and semantic technologies, and to help move them into main stream applications. ONTOLOG is an open, international, virtual community of practice working on the application and adoption of ontological engineering and semantic technologies. A podcast from the ONTOLOG Forum Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community of practice, whose membership will: * Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the development and application of both formal and informal ontologies. * Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort, as well as to the broader domain of eBusiness standardization efforts. * Strive to advance the field of ontological engineering and semantic technologies, and to help move them into main stream applications. en (cc) 2002-2007 Ontolog, some rights reserved; see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 ONTOLOG Forum community event podcast@ontolog.cim3.org http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/podcast/ontolog_icon_144.jpg http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage 144 106 Information Technology ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, common logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL, SWRL clean JohnBateman TillMossakowski OliverKutz JoanaHois OntologForum * [ontolog] Professor Dr. John Bateman from the University of Bremen (Germany) presents a talk entitled: "Ontology Structuring Mechanisms and Ontological Modularity: ongoing research and targeted applications" on work at the Bremen Ontology Research Group by himself (Prof. Dr. John Bateman), Dr. Till Mossakowski, Dr. Oliver Kutz and Ms. Joana Hois., at the Ontolog Forum - 31-Jan-2008 * see the session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_31 Ontology Structuring Mechanisms and Ontological Modularity: ongoing research and targeted applications * [ontolog] Professor Dr. John Bateman from the University of Bremen (Germany) presents a talk entitled: "Ontology Structuring Mechanisms and Ontological Modularity: ongoing research and targeted applications" on work at the Bremen Ontology Research Group by himself (Prof. Dr. John Bateman), Dr. Till Mossakowski, Dr. Oliver Kutz and Ms. Joana Hois., at the Ontolog Forum - 31-Jan-2008 * see the session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_31 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JohnBateman_20080131/Ontology-Structuring-Mechanisms-n-Modularity--JohnBateman_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-142987_20080131.mp3 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:33:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:37:29 John Bateman, Till Mossakowski, Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois, Bremen Ontology Research Group, Ontology Structuring Mechanisms, Ontological Modularity, computational linguistics, CASL, HETS, CoFI, CASL (Common Algebraic Specification Language), HETS (Heterogeneous Tool Set), CoFI (Common Framework Initiative for algebraic specification and development), Bremen, DKFI, ontology, formal ontology, axiomatized ontology, ontology tool, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum HolgerKnublauch MatthewWest OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. Holger Knublauch (TopQuadrant) presents: "Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology" in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" series - Session chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) - 24-Jan-2008 * see the session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_24 Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology * [ontolog] Dr. Holger Knublauch (TopQuadrant) presents: "Information Integration Intelligence with Semantic Technology" in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" series - Session chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) - 24-Jan-2008 * see the session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_24 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2008-01-24_HolgerKnublauch/Ontolog-AudioRecording-141631_Intelligence-with-Semantic-Technology--HolgerKnublauch_20080124.mp3 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:35:57 database and ontology, Holger Knublauch, TopQuadrant,TopBraid, information integration intelligence, semantic web technology, ontology tool, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, ontology, OWL, RDF, RDFS, ontological engineering JeanneHolm TomasSoderstrom MarcelaOliva OKMDS NASA Ontolog KMWG * [OKMDS] NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 3nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. JeanneHolm (NASA/JPL), TomasSoderstrom (NASA/JPL) and MarcelaOliva (LATTC) in a panel to present on: "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing" This session was chaired by Ms. JeanHolm (NASA/JPL) and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings - 17-Jan-2008 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_17 Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing * [OKMDS] NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 3nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. JeanneHolm (NASA/JPL), TomasSoderstrom (NASA/JPL) and MarcelaOliva (LATTC) in a panel to present on: "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing" This session was chaired by Ms. JeanHolm (NASA/JPL) and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings - 17-Jan-2008 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_17 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/2008-01-17_Knowledge-Sharing-Space/OKMDS_Knowledge-Sharing-Space--JeanneHolm-TomSoderstrom-MarcelaOliva-et-al_AudioRecording_conf-140422_20080117.mp3 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:56:47 informational space, virtual space, collaborative knowledge environment, Jeanne Holm, Tomas Soderstrom, Marcela Oliva, JPL, NASA, Ontolog, KMWG, sharing knowledge, OKMDS, ontology in knowledge management and decision support, knowledge management, decision support, collaboration, distributed collaboration, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Second Life, virtual world, MarcWine RexBrooks MichaelCummens SaulRosenberg Ontolog * [ontolog] Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics: Lessons Learned - Panel Discussion - Panelists: Mr. Marc Wine (co-chair), Mr. Rex Brooks (co-chair), Dr. Michael Cummens and Professor Saul Rosenberg - Thu 2008-01-10 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_10 Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics - Lessons Learn * [ontolog] Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics: Lessons Learned - Panel Discussion - Panelists: Mr. Marc Wine (co-chair), Mr. Rex Brooks (co-chair), Dr. Michael Cummens and Professor Saul Rosenberg - Thu 2008-01-10 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_01_10 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/semantic-interoperability-in-health-informatics_20080110/Semantic-Interoperability-in-Health-Informatics_Lessons-Learned_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-139108_20080110.mp3 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:58:08 semantic interoperability, health informatics, health IT, EHR, Marc Wine, Rex Brooks, Michael Cummens, Saul Rosenberg, ontology, semantics, mental health information system, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, PeterYim TedGordon AdamCheyer KenBaclawski PatCassidy DuaneNickull DeniseBedford JerryGlenn JeanneHolm OKMDS NASA Ontolog KMWG MP/WFUNA * [OKMDS] NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 2nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. PeterYim, Mr. TedGordon, Mr. AdamCheyer, Professor KenBaclawski, Dr. PatrickCassidy, Mr. DuaneNickull, Dr. DeniseBedford and Dr. JerryGlenn were in a panel to discuss: "Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it." This session was chaired by Ms. JeanHolm (NASA/JPL) and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings - 13-Dec-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_13 Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it * [OKMDS] NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 2nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. PeterYim, Mr. TedGordon, Mr. AdamCheyer, Professor KenBaclawski, Dr. PatrickCassidy, Mr. DuaneNickull, Dr. DeniseBedford and Dr. JerryGlenn were in a panel to discuss: "Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it." This session was chaired by Ms. JeanHolm (NASA/JPL) and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings - 13-Dec-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_13 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/2007-12-13_SOFI-System/OKMDS_SOFI-System--TedGordon-PeterYim-et-al_AudioRecording_conf-134931_20071213.mp3 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:53:02 SOFI, SOFI System, Futures Research, Delphi, Realtime Delphi, RTDelphi, Trend Impact Analysis, Normative Future, collaborative knowledge environment, qualitative anaysis, quantitative analysis, Bayesian Network, rationale, decision support, foundational ontology, common upper ontology, Conceptual Defining Vocabulary, CDV, SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, Peter Yim, Ted Gordon, Adam Cheyer, Denise Bedford, Pat Cassidy, Ken Baclawski, Duane Nickull, Jerome Glenn, Jeanne Holm, NASA, Ontolog, KMWG, sharing knowledge, OKMDS, ontology in knowledge management and decision support, MP, WFUNA, Millennium Project, ontology, knowledge management, decision support, collaboration, distributed collaboration, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Second Life, virtual world, MarkMusen PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Professor Mark Musen, Head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and PI of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology research consortium gives a talk on the NCBO-BioPortal, entitled: "If we build it, will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical ontologies" at the Ontolog Forum = 6-Dec-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 NCBO-BioPortal: If we build it, will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical ontologies * [ontolog] Professor Mark Musen, Head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and PI of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology research consortium gives a talk on the NCBO-BioPortal, entitled: "If we build it, will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical ontologies" at the Ontolog Forum = 6-Dec-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MarkMusen_20071206/NCBO-BioPortal--MarkMusen_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-133566_20071206.mp3 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:30:25 Mark Musen, NCBO, National Center for Biomedical Ontology, BioPortal, Stanford, BMIR, SMI, ontology, ontology tool, collaborative protege, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, distributed collaboration, collaborative ontology development JeanneHolm AndrewSchain PeterYim OKMDS NASA Ontolog KMWG * [OKMDS] Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL), Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) and Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog) Launches the NASA-Ontolog-KMWG joint initiative entitled "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" designed to provide creating the opportunity for an inter-community, collaborative exploration of the intersection between Ontology, Knowledge Management and Decision Support, that could eventually lead us toward "Better Decision Making." This session was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings -- 08-Nov-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_11_08 Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS): Making Better Decisions * [OKMDS] Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL), Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) and Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog) Launches the NASA-Ontolog-KMWG joint initiative entitled "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" designed to provide creating the opportunity for an inter-community, collaborative exploration of the intersection between Ontology, Knowledge Management and Decision Support, that could eventually lead us toward "Better Decision Making." This session was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings -- 08-Nov-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_11_08 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/2007-11-08_Launch-event/OKMDS_Launch--JanneHolm-AndrewSchain-PeterYim_NASA-Ontolog-KMWG_AudioRecording_conf-127763_20071108.mp3 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:30:00 -0800 Information Technology no 1:25:05 Jeanne Holm, Andrew Schain, Peter Yim, NASA, Ontolog, KMWG, sharing knowledge, OKMDS, ontology in knowledge management and decision support, ontology, knowledge management, decision support, collaboration, distributed collaboration, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Second Life, virtual world, JeanneHolm CharlesWhite PeterYim NASA-JPL Ontolog * [OKMDS] Ms. Jeanne Holm and Mr. Charles White from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, giving their talk on: "Sharing Knowledge in Second Life" in preparation for the NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" mini-series (as the pre-OKMDS-series tutorial on getting people ready on the Second Life virtual world) - 25-Oct-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_25 Sharing Knowledge in Second Life * [OKMDS] Ms. Jeanne Holm and Mr. Charles White from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, giving their talk on: "Sharing Knowledge in Second Life" in preparation for the NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support" mini-series (as the pre-OKMDS-series tutorial on getting people ready on the Second Life virtual world) - 25-Oct-2007 * see the OKMDS session page on the Ontolog wiki at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_25 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/2007-10-25_SL-tutorial/Sharing-Knowledge-in-SL--JeanneHolm-CharlesWhite_NASA-Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-124477_20071025.mp3 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:18:39 Jeanne Holm, Charles White, NASA, JPL, Second Life, virtual world, sharing knowledge, OKMDS, ontology in knowledge management and decision support, ontology, knowledge management, decision support, collaboration, distributed collaboration, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, AlanWu MatthewWest PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. Zhe (Alan) Wu (from Oracle's New England Development Center) presents: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL" in the 11th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - Session co-chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) and Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE) - 18-Oct-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL * [ontolog] Dr. Zhe (Alan) Wu (from Oracle's New England Development Center) presents: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL" in the 11th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - Session co-chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) and Dr. Leo Obrst (MITRE) - 18-Oct-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_18 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-10-18_AlanWu/Ontolog-AudioRecording-122820_RDBMS-RDFS-OWL-InferenceEngine--AlanWu_20071018.mp3 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:06:32 Alan Wu, Zhe Wu, Oracle 11g RDF/OWL, RDBMS-based RDFS OWL Inference Engine, reasoner, inference engine performance, ontology tool, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, ontology, OWL, RDFS++, OWLSIF, OWLPrime, OWL-DL, description logic, ontological engineering TimothyRedmond PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. Timothy Redmond from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) Protege project team and Mr. Peter Yim of CIM3 presents: "Distributed Ontology Development with Protege" at the Ontolog Forum - 11-Oct-2007 (as the second episode to a 2-part session on "Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protege") * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_11 Distributed Ontology Development with Protege * [ontolog] Dr. Timothy Redmond from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) Protege project team and Mr. Peter Yim of CIM3 presents: "Distributed Ontology Development with Protege" at the Ontolog Forum - 11-Oct-2007 (as the second episode to a 2-part session on "Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protege") * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_11 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/TimRedmond-PeterYim_20071011/CODS-ProtegeServer--PeterYim-TimRedmond_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-120943_20071011.mp3 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:09:47 Timothy Redmond, Peter Yim, CODS, Collaborative Ontology Development Service, Protege, ontology tool, collaborative protege, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, distributed collaboration, collaborative ontology development, distributed ontology development, ontology, OWL, frame logic, description logic, knowledge representation, KR, ontological engineering TaniaTudorache PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Medical Informatics / Protege project team gives a talk on: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protege" at the Ontolog Forum - 4-Oct-2007 (as the first episode to a 2-part session on "Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protege") * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_04 Collaborative Ontology Development in Protege * [ontolog] Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Medical Informatics / Protege project team gives a talk on: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protege" at the Ontolog Forum - 4-Oct-2007 (as the first episode to a 2-part session on "Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protege") * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_10_04 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/TaniaTudorache_20071004/CollaborativeProtege--TaniaTudorahce_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-119322_20071004.mp3 Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:23:51 Tania Tudorache, Protege, ontology tool, collaborative protege, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, distributed collaboration, collaborative ontology development, ontology, OWL, frame logic, description logic, knowledge representation, KR AdamPease PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software gives a talk on: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise" at the Ontolog Forum - 6-Sep-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise * [ontolog] Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software gives a talk on: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise" at the Ontolog Forum - 6-Sep-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_09_06 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AdamPease_20070906/SUMO--AdamPease_Ontolog-AudioRecording_conf-112484_20070906.mp3 Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:39:38 Adam Pease, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, ontology, upper ontology, domain ontology, Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, SUMO, MILO, First Order Logic, FOL, formal ontology, Controlled English to Logic Translation system, CELT, Core Plan Representation, knowledge representation, KR, artificial intelligence, AI, linguistics, SUMO prize, TPTP theorem proving test JasonBaron SusanTurnbull PeterYim OntologForum * [ontolog] Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) giving a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" at the Ontolog Forum - 23-Aug-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery * [ontolog] Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) giving a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" at the Ontolog Forum - 23-Aug-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JasonBaron_20070823/Lawyers-Language-LegalRisk--Issues-in-E-Discovery--JasonBaron_20070823.mp3 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:39:38 Jason Baron, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, search, discovery, e-discovery, lawyer, language, legal risk, JohnSowa ArunMajumdar SusieStephens OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence will be our invited speaker and will be giving a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases" In the 10th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 12-July-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases * [ontolog] Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence will be our invited speaker and will be giving a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases" In the 10th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 12-July-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_12 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-07-12_JohnSowa/Ontolog-AudioRecording-100915_Analogy-JohnSowa_20070712.mp3 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 2:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 1:21:49 JohnSowa, ArunMajumdar, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Ontology, Database, Analogical Reasoning, Knowledge Bases ChrisPartridge MatthewWest OntologForum * [ontolog] Mr. Chris Partridge from the BORO Centre (UK) presents: "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems" in the 9th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 5-July-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems * [ontolog] Mr. Chris Partridge from the BORO Centre (UK) presents: "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems" in the 9th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 5-July-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_07_05 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-07-05_ChrisPartridge/Ontolog-AudioRecording-99533_Data-and-Process-Revisited--ChrisPartridge_20070705.mp3 Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:42:01 Chris Partridge, Matthew West, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Ontology, Database, Data and Process, Paradigm, Business Applications Development SouripriyaDas MelliyalAnnamalai MatthewWest SusieStephens OntologForum * [ontolog] Dr. Souripriya Das and Dr. Melliyal Annamalai (from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group) presents: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data" in the 8th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - Session co-chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) and Dr. Susie Stephens (Eli Lilly) - 28-June-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data * [ontolog] Dr. Souripriya Das and Dr. Melliyal Annamalai (from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group) presents: "Building Database Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Data" in the 8th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - Session co-chair: Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum Co) and Dr. Susie Stephens (Eli Lilly) - 28-June-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_06_28 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-06-28_SouripriyaDas-MelliyalAnnamalai/Ontolog-AudioRecording-98245_DB-Infrastructure-for-Semantic-Data--Oracle-Das-Annamalai_20070628.mp3 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:01:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:33:43 Souripriya Das, Melliyal Annamalai, Matthew West, Susie Stephens, Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Ontology, Database, RDF, Semantic Data SteveRay DeborahMcGuinness ChrisMenzel TomGruber NIST Ontolog * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.24 pm(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Symposium OntologySummit2007_Symposium_2007.04.24-2 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.24 pm(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Symposium http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Symposium_audio-unedited_20070424-4.mp3 Tue, 24 April 2007 19:30:00 -0400 Information Technology no 01:21:30 Steve Ray, Deborah McGuinness, Chris Menzel, Tom Gruber, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Symposium, Ontology SteveRay FrankOlken MichaelGruninger NIST Ontolog * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.24 pm(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Symposium OntologySummit2007_Symposium_2007.04.24-1 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.24 pm(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Symposium http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Symposium_audio-unedited_20070424-3.mp3 Tue, 24 April 2007 19:00:00 -0400 Information Technology no 00:46:58 Steve Ray, Frank Olken, Michael Gruninger, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Symposium, Ontology OlivierBodenreider FrankOlken Ontolog NIST * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.24 am(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique_Session OntologySummit2007_Communique-Session_2007.04.24-2 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.24 am(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Communique_audio-unedited_20070424-2.mp3 Tue, 24 April 2007 18:30:00 -0400 Information Technology no 01:19:22 Olivier Bodenreider, Frank Olken, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Communique, Ontology OlivierBodenreider FrankOlken TomGruber CharlesTurnitsa KenBaclawski PeterBrown Ontolog NIST * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.24 am(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique_Session OntologySummit2007_Communique-Session_2007.04.24-1 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.24 am(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Communique_audio-unedited_20070424-1.mp3 Tue, 24 April 2007 18:00:00 -0400 Information Technology no 00:34:38 Olivier Bodenreider, Frank Olken, Tom Gruber, Charles Turnitsa, Ken Baclawski, Peter Brown, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Communique, Ontology TomGruber et al. Ontolog NIST * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.23 pm(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Population_Session OntologySummit2007_Population-Session_2007.04.23-2 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.23 pm(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Population_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Population_audio-unedited_20070423-4.mp3 Mon, 23 April 2007 19:30:00 -0400 Information Technology no 00:25:36 Tom Gruber, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Population, Ontology TomGruber KenBaclawski PatCassidy ThomasVanderWal NIST Ontolog * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.23 pm(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Population_Session OntologySummit2007_Population-Session_2007.04.23-1 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Population-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.23 pm(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Population_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Population_audio-unedited_20070423-3.mp3 Mon, 23 April 2007 19:00:00 -0400 Information Technology no 01:50:25 Tom Gruber, Ken Baclawski, Pat Cassidy, Thomas Vander Wal, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Population, Ontology LeoObrst MichaelGruninger PaolaDiMaio DeniseBedford KenBaclawski NIST Ontolog * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.23 am(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Framework_Session OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session_2007.04.23-2 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session - Part-II - 2007.04.23 am(2) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Framework_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Framework_audio-unedited_20070423-2.mp3 Mon, 23 April 2007 18:30:00 -0400 Information Technology no 01:46:12 Leo Obrst, Michael Gruninger, Paola DiMaio, Denise Bedford, Ken Baclawski, NIST, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007, Framework, Ontology SteveRay LeoObrst MichaelGruninger WernerCeusters PeterYim TomGruber DeborahMcGuinness Ontolog NIST * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.23 am(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Framework_Session OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session_2007.04.23-1 * Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions * OntologySummit2007_Framework-Session - Part-I - 2007.04.23 am(1) * see ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides): http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Framework_Session http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/audio/OntologySummit2007_Framework_audio-unedited_20070423-1.mp3 Mon, 23 April 2007 18:00:00 -0400 Information Technology no 01:23:43 Steve Ray, Leo Obrst, Michael Gruninger, Werner Ceusters, Peter Yim, Tom Gruber, Deborah McGuinness, Ontolog, NIST, Ontology Summit 2007, Framework, Ontology TatianaMalyuta MatthewWest OntologForum * Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the New York City College of Technology presents: "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System" in the 7th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 10-May-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_10 Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System * Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the New York City College of Technology presents: "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System" in the 7th session of the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 10-May-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_05_10 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-05-10_TatianaMalyuta/Ontolog-AudioRecording-88506_Ontology-and-Database--TMalyuta_20070510.mp3 Thu, 10 May 2007 13:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:01:39 Tatiana Malyuta, Matthew West, Ontolog, Ontology, Database, Information System EdwardBarkmeyer MatthewWest OntologForum * Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST presents: "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" as the 6th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 12-April-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models * Mr. Edward Barkmeyer from NIST presents: "Ontologies as the Next Generation Information Models" as the 6th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 12-April-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_04_12 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-04-12_EdwardBarkmeyer/Ontolog_AudioRecording-82510_InfoModels-Ontologies--EdBarkmeyer_20070412.mp3 Thu, 12 April 2007 13:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:37:15 Edward Barkmeyer, Matthew West, Ontolog, Ontology, Information Models KenBaclawski KathyLaskey PauloCosta SteveRay NIST-Ontolog-NCOR * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-5) - Thu 29-Mar-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Panelists: Professor Kenneth Baclawski (Northeastern University), Professor Kathryn Blackmond Laskey and Dr. Paulo da Costa (George Mason University) and Dr. Terry Janssen (Lockheed Martin) ** Topic: "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_29 Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-5) - Thu 29-Mar-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Panelists: Professor Kenneth Baclawski (Northeastern University), Professor Kathryn Blackmond Laskey and Dr. Paulo da Costa (George Mason University) and Dr. Terry Janssen (Lockheed Martin) ** Topic: "Probabilistic Reasoning and Ontology Evaluation" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_29 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologyMeasurementEvaluation/2007-03-29_ProbabilisticReasoning/Ontolog_AudioRecording-79683_Probabilistic_Reasoning--KenBaclawski-KathyLaskey-PaulCosta_20070329.mp3 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:37:43 Ken Baclawski, Kathy Laskey, Paulo Costa, Steve Ray, NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, Ontology, Probablistic Reasoning AdrianWalker MatthewWest OntologForum * Dr. Adriain Walker, CTO of Reengineering, LLC., presents: "Usability, Databases and Ontologies " as the 5th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 8-March-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_08 Usability, Databases and Ontologies * Dr. Adriain Walker, CTO of Reengineering, LLC., presents: "Usability, Databases and Ontologies " as the 5th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 8-March-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_08 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-03-08_AdrianWalker/Ontolog_AudioRecording-75125_Usability-Databases-Ontologies--AdrianWalker_20070308.mp3 Thu, 8 March 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:21:52 Adrian Walker, Matthew West, Ontolog, Database, Ontology, Usability TomGruber OntologForum * Dr. Tom Gruber, the ex-Stanford scientist who defined the term "ontology" in the sense we apply to its use in computer science, artificial intelligence and the semantic web these days, presents his talk entitled: "Grande Challenges for Ontology Design" at the Ontolog Forum - 1-Mar-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_01 Grande Challenges for Ontology Design * Dr. Tom Gruber, the ex-Stanford scientist who defined the term "ontology" in the sense we apply to its use in computer science, artificial intelligence and the semantic web these days, presents his talk entitled: "Grande Challenges for Ontology Design" at the Ontolog Forum - 1-Mar-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_01 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/TomGruber_20070301/challenges-for-ontology-design--TomGruber_20070301.mp3 Thu, 1 March 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:32:54 Tom Gruber, Ontolog, Ontology Design, Ontology MichaelGruninger ConradBock SteveRay NIST-Ontolog-NCOR * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-4) - Thu 22-Feb-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Michael Gruninger (U.Toronto) and Mr. Conrad Bock (NIST) ** Topic: "Evaluating Reasoning Systems: Ontology Languages" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_22 Evaluating Reasoning Systems: Ontology Languages * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-4) - Thu 22-Feb-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Michael Gruninger (U.Toronto) and Mr. Conrad Bock (NIST) ** Topic: "Evaluating Reasoning Systems: Ontology Languages" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_22 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologyMeasurementEvaluation/2007-02-22_EvaluatingReasoningSystems/OntologyLanguages--MichaelGruninger-ConradBock_20070222.mp3 Thu, 22 February 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:26:15 Michael Gruninger, Conrad Bock, Steve Ray, Ontology, Language, Reasoning Systems, NIST, Ontolog, NCOR MartinOConnor TimRedmond MattWest OntologForum * Mr. Martin O'Connor, a Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics, presents: "Efficiently Querying Relational Databases using OWL and SWRL" as the 4th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 8-February-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 Efficiently Querying Relational Databases using OWL and SWRL * Mr. Martin O'Connor, a Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics, presents: "Efficiently Querying Relational Databases using OWL and SWRL" as the 4th session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 8-February-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-02-08_MartinOConnor/Ontolog_AudioRecording-69569_Querying-RDB-Using-OWL-n-SWRL--MartinOConnor_20070208.mp3 Thu, 8 February 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:44:35 Martin O'Connor, Tim Redmond, Matt West, Ontolog, OWL, SWRL, Database, Ontology RexBrooks BobSmith MichelleRaymond KenBaclawski Ontolog * "Ontology Applications in Emergency Response" Panel Discussion - Co-moderated: RexBrooks and BobSmith - Thu 2007.01.25 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_25 Ontology Applications in Emergency Response * "Ontology Applications in Emergency Response" Panel Discussion - Co-moderated: RexBrooks and BobSmith - Thu 2007.01.25 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_25 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/emergency-response_20070125/Ontolog_AudioRecording-65938_EmergencyResponse_20070125.mp3 Thu, 25 January 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:50:15 Rex Brooks, Bob Smith, Michelle Raymond, Ken Baclawski, Ontolog, Emergency Response, Ontology SteveRay PeterYim LeoObrst Ontolog * OntologySummit2007 Launch Meeting - Co-moderated: SteveRay LeoObrst and PeterYim - Thu 2007.01.18 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 Ontology Summit 2007: project kick-off and planning session * OntologySummit2007 Launch Meeting - Co-moderated: SteveRay LeoObrst and PeterYim - Thu 2007.01.18 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/2007-01-18_Launch/OntologySummit2007-Launch_AudioRecording-64059_20070118.mp3 Thu, 18 January 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:10:12 Steve Ray, Peter Yim, Leo Obrst, Ontolog, Ontology Summit 2007 WernerCeusters SteveRay NIST-Ontolog-NCOR * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-3) - Thu 11-Jan-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Werner Ceusters (SUNY, Buffalo) ** Topic: "Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_11 Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-3) - Thu 11-Jan-2007 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Werner Ceusters (SUNY, Buffalo) ** Topic: "Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_11 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologyMeasurementEvaluation/2007-01-11_ChangeManagement/Ontolog_AudioRecording-62350_Ontology-Change-Management--WernerCeusters_20070111.mp3 Thu, 11 January 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:27:59 Werner Ceusters, Steve Ray, Quality Assurance, Realism-based Change Management, Ontology, Data Repositories, Ontolog, NIST, NCOR ElisaKendall MatthewWest OntologForum * Ms. Elisa Kendall, CEO and Founder of Sandpiper Software, presents: "The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Motivation and Brief Introduction" as the 3rd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 4-January-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_04 Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Motivation and Brief Introduction * Ms. Elisa Kendall, CEO and Founder of Sandpiper Software, presents: "The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Motivation and Brief Introduction" as the 3rd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 4-January-2007 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_04 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2007-01-04_ElisaKendall/Ontolog_AudioRecording-60698_ODM--ElisaKendall_20070104.mp3 Thu, 4 January 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:39:45 Elisa Kendall, Matthew West, Ontology, ODM, Ontology Definition Metamodel, Ontolog BarrySmith SteveRay NIST-Ontolog-NCOR * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-2) - Thu 21-Dec-2006 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Barry Smith (NCOR) ** Topic: "Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_21 Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation * NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation (Session-2) - Thu 21-Dec-2006 ** Session Chair: Dr. Steven Ray (NIST) ** Invited Speaker: Professor Barry Smith (NCOR) ** Topic: "Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry - A Gold Standard Approach to Ontology Evaluation" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_21 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologyMeasurementEvaluation/2006-12-21_OntologyEvaluationInBiomedicine/OBO-Foundry_AudioRecording-58710--BarrySmith_20061221.mp3 Thu, 21 December 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:22:26 Barry Smith, Steve Ray, NIST, NCOR, Ontolog, Ontology, Measurement, Evaluation, Biomedicine Christopher Chute * Professor Christopher Chute from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine presents his invited talk entitled: "The Lexical Grid Project: LexGrid" at the Ontolog Forum - 14-Dec-2006 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_14 The Lexical Grid Project: LexGrid * Professor Christopher Chute from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine presents his invited talk entitled: "The Lexical Grid Project: LexGrid" at the Ontolog Forum - 14-Dec-2006 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_12_14 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/ChristopherChute_20061214/LexGrid_AudioRecording--ChrisChute_20061214.mp3 Thu, 14 December 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:27:43 Christopher Chute, LexGrid, Lexical Grid, Ontolog, Ontology PeterO'Kelly JohnMcGrath GunarPenekis RogerSippl DuaneNickull KurtConrad Ontolog * "Ontolog Technical Discussion: Ontology Application and Implementation (Take-II) - Thu 30-Nov-2006 * Organizer / Moderator: Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Kurt Conrad (Sagebrush Group) * Panelists: ** Mr. Peter O'Kelly (Research Director, Burton Group), ** Mr. John McGrath (Sr. Director, Fast Search), ** Mr. Gunar Penekis (XMP Product Manager, Adobe Systems), and ** Mr. Roger Sippl (Founder and Chairman, Above All Software)" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_11_30 Ontolog Technical Discussion: Ontology Application and Implementation (Take-II) - Thu 30-Nov-2006 * "Ontolog Technical Discussion: Ontology Application and Implementation (Take-II) - Thu 30-Nov-2006 * Organizer / Moderator: Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Kurt Conrad (Sagebrush Group) * Panelists: ** Mr. Peter O'Kelly (Research Director, Burton Group), ** Mr. John McGrath (Sr. Director, Fast Search), ** Mr. Gunar Penekis (XMP Product Manager, Adobe Systems), and ** Mr. Roger Sippl (Founder and Chairman, Above All Software)" * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_11_30 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/application-implementation-2_20061130/Ontology-Application-n-Implementation-Panel2_AudioRecording--DuaneNickull_20061130.mp3 Thu, 30 November 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:38:28 Peter O'Kelly, John McGrath, Gunar Penekis, Roger Sippl, Duane Nickull, Kurt Conrad, Ontolog, Ontology, Application, Implementation Matthew West * Dr. Matthew West (Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited) presents his invited talk entitled: "From Ontology to Data Model: Choices and Design Decisions" as the 2nd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 16-November-2006 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DatabaseAndOntology From Ontology to Data Model: Choices and Design Decisions * Dr. Matthew West (Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited) presents his invited talk entitled: "From Ontology to Data Model: Choices and Design Decisions" as the 2nd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series - 16-November-2006 * see ONTOLOG Forum session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DatabaseAndOntology http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2006-11-16_MatthewWest/From-Ontology-to-DataModel_AudioRecording--MatthewWest_20061116.mp3 Thu, 16 November 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:12:22 Matthew West, Database, Ontology, Data model Dr. Pat Hayes * Subject Dr. Pat Hayes from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition ("IHMC") was our invited speaker. His presentation was entitled: "A logic for ontology interoperation" where he talked about Common Logic (CL) and its extension, IKL - a system of logical notations and formalisms that can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange. * Date Thursday, October 26, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_26 * Abstract (by Pat Hayes) Over the past few years a series of initiatives have converged on the design of a 'common logic' into which a large variety of alternative logical notations and formalisms can be projected, and so can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange and standardization. This talk will briefly survey the design principles that have emerged from these discussions and the outline of the resulting framework, which is currently going through ISO approval as ISO Common Logic, and a more recent extension called IKL, designed explicitly for ontology interoperation, which provides a variety of powerful naming conventions which enable it to explicitly describe relationships between ontological frameworks. We will illustrate the talk with examples showing how description logics such as OWL, modal and temporal logics, hybrid logics and context logics can be mapped into CL and IKL. A logic for ontology interoperation -- by Dr. Pat Hayes from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition ("IHMC") - 26-October-2006 * Subject Dr. Pat Hayes from the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition ("IHMC") was our invited speaker. His presentation was entitled: "A logic for ontology interoperation" where he talked about Common Logic (CL) and its extension, IKL - a system of logical notations and formalisms that can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange. * Date Thursday, October 26, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_26 * Abstract (by Pat Hayes) Over the past few years a series of initiatives have converged on the design of a 'common logic' into which a large variety of alternative logical notations and formalisms can be projected, and so can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange and standardization. This talk will briefly survey the design principles that have emerged from these discussions and the outline of the resulting framework, which is currently going through ISO approval as ISO Common Logic, and a more recent extension called IKL, designed explicitly for ontology interoperation, which provides a variety of powerful naming conventions which enable it to explicitly describe relationships between ontological frameworks. We will illustrate the talk with examples showing how description logics such as OWL, modal and temporal logics, hybrid logics and context logics can be mapped into CL and IKL. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/PatHayes_20061026/A-Logic-for-Ontology-Interoperation--PatHayes_AudioRecording-3464775-317865_20061026.mp3 Thu, 26 October 2006 12:40:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:49:53 Pat Hayes, Florida IHMC, Chris Menzel, Christopher Menzel, John McCarthy, common logic, CL, KIF, CLIF, KIF, ISO, lexicon, unique identifiers, vocabulary, linguistic, synonym, translation, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, controlled vocabulary, security, trust, domain ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, service discovery, service contract, SOA reference model, SOA reference model architecture, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, description logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, Dr. Steven Ray, Dr. Chris Welty et al. * Subject NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: "Ontology Measurement and Evaluation" Kick-off Session, with Dr. Steven Ray, Dr. Chris Welty et al. * Date Thursday, October 19, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19 * Session Abstract (by Steve Ray) This mini-series will explore the landscape, issues and solutions relating to the measurement, evaluation, quality and testing of ontologies. * Pertinent Issues we might explore during this and subsequent sessions, such as: o 1. Why do we need to care about ontology quality? o 2. What are objective means of classifying something as an ontology, taxonomy, data model, semantic networks, or tagged markup, etc. o 3. How can ontologies be evaluated and measured? o 4. How can the quality of Ontology Design Tools be assessed? ... and so on. * Keynote Presentation Titles and Abstracts: ** Ontology Quality and the Semantic Web - Dr. Christopher A. Welty Abstract: One of the guiding principles of the web and its machine interpretable successor the semantic web is to "let a million flowers bloom." HTML was based on technology nearly two decades old at the time (Hypertext), for which a research community concerned mainly with Human-Computer interaction was investigating what the "right way" to use hypertext for effective communication was. The vast majority of early HTML pages completely ignored this and yet the web thrived. Still, as the web became a serious medium for dissemination, institutions for whom effective communication was critical did begin to take this research seriously and today's highly visible web pages are designed by people with experience and training on how to "do it right". The progress and evolution of the semantic web should follow the same path - the semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, and RIF) are based on decades-old technology from Knowledge Representation and Databases, and there has been for about 15 years a research community associated with this field that has studied what the "right way" to use these systems is. This field, which I will call "ontology engineering" for this talk, is concerned among other things with ontology quality and its impact. In this talk I will discuss research on characterizing ontology quality and measuring the impact of quality on knowledge-based systems. NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation - Kick-off Session - Dr. Steven Ray, Dr. Chris Welty et al. - Thu 19-Oct-2006 * Subject NIST-Ontolog-NCOR Mini-Series: "Ontology Measurement and Evaluation" Kick-off Session, with Dr. Steven Ray, Dr. Chris Welty et al. * Date Thursday, October 19, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19 * Session Abstract (by Steve Ray) This mini-series will explore the landscape, issues and solutions relating to the measurement, evaluation, quality and testing of ontologies. * Pertinent Issues we might explore during this and subsequent sessions, such as: o 1. Why do we need to care about ontology quality? o 2. What are objective means of classifying something as an ontology, taxonomy, data model, semantic networks, or tagged markup, etc. o 3. How can ontologies be evaluated and measured? o 4. How can the quality of Ontology Design Tools be assessed? ... and so on. * Keynote Presentation Titles and Abstracts: ** Ontology Quality and the Semantic Web - Dr. Christopher A. Welty Abstract: One of the guiding principles of the web and its machine interpretable successor the semantic web is to "let a million flowers bloom." HTML was based on technology nearly two decades old at the time (Hypertext), for which a research community concerned mainly with Human-Computer interaction was investigating what the "right way" to use hypertext for effective communication was. The vast majority of early HTML pages completely ignored this and yet the web thrived. Still, as the web became a serious medium for dissemination, institutions for whom effective communication was critical did begin to take this research seriously and today's highly visible web pages are designed by people with experience and training on how to "do it right". The progress and evolution of the semantic web should follow the same path - the semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, and RIF) are based on decades-old technology from Knowledge Representation and Databases, and there has been for about 15 years a research community associated with this field that has studied what the "right way" to use these systems is. This field, which I will call "ontology engineering" for this talk, is concerned among other things with ontology quality and its impact. In this talk I will discuss research on characterizing ontology quality and measuring the impact of quality on knowledge-based systems. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologyMeasurementEvaluation/2006-10-19_OntologyMeasurementEvaluation-MiniSeries-kickoff/OntologSeries_OntologyMeasureEval-01_AudioRecording-3443946-285313_20061019.mp3 Thu, 19 October 2006 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:38:56 Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, NIST, NCOR, Steve Ray, Chris Welty, ontology measurement, ontology ovaluation, mini-series, ontology quality, ontoclean, methodology, identity, unity, rigidity, dependence, actuality, permanence, semantics, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, thesauri, controlled vocabulary, folksonomy, folksonomies, security, trust, domain ontology, upper ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, semantic search, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, SWRL Dr. Matthew West, Dr. Tatiana Malyuta and Dr. Leo Obrst * Subject Ontolog Mini-Series: "Database and Ontology" Kick-off Panel Session with Dr. Matthew West (Program Lead), Dr. Tatiana Malyuta and Dr. Leo Obrst * Date Thursday, October 12, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_12 * Session Abstract (by Matthew West) Broadly ontologies describe what exists. Databases hold facts about what exists. It is therefore not surprising that ontology can help in the design of databases by having the design match reality more closely. On the other hand ontologies are things about which we wish to hold information, and databases are powerful ways to store information so that it can be retrieved by many people, especially when there is structure to the information. Different databases will have their own, sometimes implicit, ontologies. Identifying and mapping between these ontologies is key to data integration. Finally, databases, whether for ontology tools or other applications, need to have a human interface. The use of ontology in design and implementation of the human computer interface can transform the utility of a system. This mini-series will explore these interactions, how ontologies and databases are mutually supportive, and identify the main issues people in these fields are grappling with. * Pertinent Issues we might explore during this and subsequent sessions: o 1. How does ontology improve database design? o 2. What is there beyond ontology in database design? o 3. How do you design a database to manage an ontology? o 4. What are the limitations of databases in supporting ontologies? o 5. How do you discover the ontology implicit in a database? o 6. How do you map between ontologies? o 7. How does ontology help with the design and implementation of human computer interfaces? o 8. What are the key challenges in developing human computer interfaces using ontologies? * Talk Titles and Abstracts: ** Improving Database utilization with Ontology - Dr. Tatiana Malyuta Abstract: Databases do not provide open and explicit descriptions of data semantics. This prevents efficient, qualitative, and automated data utilization. Ontology, as an open and standard semantics provider, can help in resolving the problems of data utilization. Issues of building a productive relationship between Ontology and Database are discussed. ** Ontologies and Databases: Similarities and Differences - Dr. Leo Obrst Abstract: Ontologies and databases have much in common, but there are many differences too. Databases focus on local semantics that have only aspects of the real world, typically keep that semantics implicit, use logic structurally, and their schemas are not generally reusable. Ontologies focus on global semantics of the real world, make that semantics explicit and machine interpretable by using a logic-based modeling language, and are reusable as true models of a portion of the world. ** Ontology in Database Design - Dr. Matthew West Abstract: Databases hold information. The information is about things. What things there are is at the heart of ontology. Some key concerns of database design, and how ontology can help are presented. Ontolog Mini-Series: Database and Ontology - Kick-off Panel Session - Dr. Matthew West, Dr. Tatiana Malyuta and Dr. Leo Obrst - Thu 12-Oct-2006 * Subject Ontolog Mini-Series: "Database and Ontology" Kick-off Panel Session with Dr. Matthew West (Program Lead), Dr. Tatiana Malyuta and Dr. Leo Obrst * Date Thursday, October 12, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_12 * Session Abstract (by Matthew West) Broadly ontologies describe what exists. Databases hold facts about what exists. It is therefore not surprising that ontology can help in the design of databases by having the design match reality more closely. On the other hand ontologies are things about which we wish to hold information, and databases are powerful ways to store information so that it can be retrieved by many people, especially when there is structure to the information. Different databases will have their own, sometimes implicit, ontologies. Identifying and mapping between these ontologies is key to data integration. Finally, databases, whether for ontology tools or other applications, need to have a human interface. The use of ontology in design and implementation of the human computer interface can transform the utility of a system. This mini-series will explore these interactions, how ontologies and databases are mutually supportive, and identify the main issues people in these fields are grappling with. * Pertinent Issues we might explore during this and subsequent sessions: o 1. How does ontology improve database design? o 2. What is there beyond ontology in database design? o 3. How do you design a database to manage an ontology? o 4. What are the limitations of databases in supporting ontologies? o 5. How do you discover the ontology implicit in a database? o 6. How do you map between ontologies? o 7. How does ontology help with the design and implementation of human computer interfaces? o 8. What are the key challenges in developing human computer interfaces using ontologies? * Talk Titles and Abstracts: ** Improving Database utilization with Ontology - Dr. Tatiana Malyuta Abstract: Databases do not provide open and explicit descriptions of data semantics. This prevents efficient, qualitative, and automated data utilization. Ontology, as an open and standard semantics provider, can help in resolving the problems of data utilization. Issues of building a productive relationship between Ontology and Database are discussed. ** Ontologies and Databases: Similarities and Differences - Dr. Leo Obrst Abstract: Ontologies and databases have much in common, but there are many differences too. Databases focus on local semantics that have only aspects of the real world, typically keep that semantics implicit, use logic structurally, and their schemas are not generally reusable. Ontologies focus on global semantics of the real world, make that semantics explicit and machine interpretable by using a logic-based modeling language, and are reusable as true models of a portion of the world. ** Ontology in Database Design - Dr. Matthew West Abstract: Databases hold information. The information is about things. What things there are is at the heart of ontology. Some key concerns of database design, and how ontology can help are presented. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/DatabaseAndOntology/2006-10-12_DatabaseAndOntology-MiniSeries-kickoff/OntologSeries_Database-n-Ontology-01_AudioRecording-3418404-216919_20061012.mp3 Thu, 12 October 2006 12:33:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:26:37 Ontolog, Ontolog Forum, Matthew West, Leo Obrst, Tatiana Malyuta, Database and Ontology, mini-series, data model, UML, semantics, applications, enterprise integration, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, controlled vocabulary, security, trust, domain ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, service discovery, service contract, SOA reference model, SOA reference model architecture, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, Professor Alan Rector * Subject Professor Alan Rector from the University of Manchester (UK) presents: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" * Date Thursday, September 14, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_09_14 * Abstract (by Alan Rector) Terminologies and 'Ontologies' serve several disparate purposes: o Providing a controlled vocabulary and/or standard set of identifiers o Providing a means of browsing and finding appropriate vocabulary or identifiers o Providing the linguistic terms - synonyms, translations, etc.. - to go with the controlled vocabulary o Cross mapping and translation between different systems o Providing logical criteria which can be used for inference and query expansion o Providing additional 'universal' or intrinsic information about the entities involved o Serving as an index for other background knowledge and resources Most current biomedical ontologies serve primarily the first three functions, with varying efforts towards formal logical criteria. However, there are aspirations, and sometimes claims, for more rigorous functions, and many standardisation efforts pre-suppose more and more formal structure. Each of these functions implies criteria for quality assurance. For example, for managing controlled vocabularies, process issues such as version control and coverage are most critical. Browsing raises issues of human computer interaction, and language raises its own issues. The last three all require a degree of logical coherence and rigour. In addition to many biomedical ontologies, scaling is critical. Biomedical ontologies are large and potentially combinatorially explosive. For some applications, small enumerated terminologies are sufficient. For others, indefinitely large compositional ontologies that cannot, in principle, be pre-enumerated are required. Finally almost all ontologies are based on many poorly articulated assumptions. Any quality assurance methodology must take account both of what can be understood independent of consultation with the originators and what conclusions can be reached after consultation with the originators. Overall we propose an approach to quality along two dimensions - process and content - and a two stage process - the first independent of consultation with the originating authority, the second in consultation with the originating authority. Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare? -- by Professor Alan Rector (from the University of Manchester, UK) - 14-Sep-2006 * Subject Professor Alan Rector from the University of Manchester (UK) presents: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" * Date Thursday, September 14, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_09_14 * Abstract (by Alan Rector) Terminologies and 'Ontologies' serve several disparate purposes: o Providing a controlled vocabulary and/or standard set of identifiers o Providing a means of browsing and finding appropriate vocabulary or identifiers o Providing the linguistic terms - synonyms, translations, etc.. - to go with the controlled vocabulary o Cross mapping and translation between different systems o Providing logical criteria which can be used for inference and query expansion o Providing additional 'universal' or intrinsic information about the entities involved o Serving as an index for other background knowledge and resources Most current biomedical ontologies serve primarily the first three functions, with varying efforts towards formal logical criteria. However, there are aspirations, and sometimes claims, for more rigorous functions, and many standardisation efforts pre-suppose more and more formal structure. Each of these functions implies criteria for quality assurance. For example, for managing controlled vocabularies, process issues such as version control and coverage are most critical. Browsing raises issues of human computer interaction, and language raises its own issues. The last three all require a degree of logical coherence and rigour. In addition to many biomedical ontologies, scaling is critical. Biomedical ontologies are large and potentially combinatorially explosive. For some applications, small enumerated terminologies are sufficient. For others, indefinitely large compositional ontologies that cannot, in principle, be pre-enumerated are required. Finally almost all ontologies are based on many poorly articulated assumptions. Any quality assurance methodology must take account both of what can be understood independent of consultation with the originators and what conclusions can be reached after consultation with the originators. Overall we propose an approach to quality along two dimensions - process and content - and a two stage process - the first independent of consultation with the originating authority, the second in consultation with the originating authority. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AlanRector_20060914/Terminologies-n-Ontologies--AlanRector_AudioRecording-3320989-292348_20060914.mp3 Thu, 14 September 2006 12:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:14:57 Alan Rector, Jeremy Rogers, quality, QA, CO-ODE, GALEN, opengalen, biomedical, terminology, terminologies, lexicon, unique identifiers, vocabulary, linguistic, synonym, translation, University of Manchester, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, controlled vocabulary, security, trust, domain ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, service discovery, service contract, SOA reference model, SOA reference model architecture, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, description logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, Dr. York Sure * Subject Dr. York Sure, Assistant Professor at the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and currently visiting researcher at Stanford University (USA), presents to the community his talk entitled: "What does Sparkling Wine have to do with Semantics?" * Date Thursday, August 17, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_08_17 * Abstract (by York Sure) In this talk recent advances of semantic knowledge technologies are presented. Tangible results, both in the area of technology such as the Semantic Media Wiki and the area of ontology engineering methodologies such as cost estimation for ontologies, are highlighted. The results are put in a wider perspective to give an overview of currently ongoing projects in the EU. Of course, an answer to the question posed in the title will be given as well. What Does Sparkling Wine Have To Do With Semantics? -- by Dr. York Sure (from the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany) - 17-Aug-2006 * Subject Dr. York Sure, Assistant Professor at the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and currently visiting researcher at Stanford University (USA), presents to the community his talk entitled: "What does Sparkling Wine have to do with Semantics?" * Date Thursday, August 17, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_08_17 * Abstract (by York Sure) In this talk recent advances of semantic knowledge technologies are presented. Tangible results, both in the area of technology such as the Semantic Media Wiki and the area of ontology engineering methodologies such as cost estimation for ontologies, are highlighted. The results are put in a wider perspective to give an overview of currently ongoing projects in the EU. Of course, an answer to the question posed in the title will be given as well. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/YorkSure_20060817/Sparkling-Wine-and-Semantics--YorkSure_AudioRecording-3226162-108612_20060817.mp3 Thu, 17 August 2006 12:15:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:34:54 semantic Karlsruhe, University of Karlsruhe, AIFB, FZI, Ontoprise, SEKT, Knowledge Web, DIP, X-Media, NeOn, DILIGENT, IBIS, Compendium, KAON2, Semantic MediaWiki, OntoCOM, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, controlled vocabulary, security, trust, domain ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, service discovery, service contract, SOA reference model, SOA reference model architecture, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, Mr. Duane Nickull and Mr. Rex Brooks * Subject Co-Moderators Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Rex Brooks (Starbourne Communications), SOA experts themselves, put together a very knowledgeable panel that included Mr. Ron Schmelzer (Zapthink), Dr. Ken Laskey (MITRE) and Ms. Rebekah Metz (Booz Allen Hamilton), and together with a great group of participants, explored the role of ontologies and taxonomies in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designs and applications. * Date Thursday, August 10, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_08_10 * Abstract (by Duane Nickull and Rex Brooks) To explore what role ontologies and taxonomies play within a service oriented architecture environment. Ontologies and taxonomies can be employed in service oriented environments in numerous ways, through ontologies of domains, for instance health informatics or plastics manufacturing, or taxonomies of services or service categories within domains, so we want to explore how ontologies and taxonomies can improve the availability and performance of services in these roles. 3 guest speakers will each bring a unique perspective on the topic and speak for 10 minutes followed by a quick Q-and-A. After the final session, a longer group Q-and-A and discussion will take place among all participants in the session. Ontologies and Service Oriented Architecture -- Ontolog Panel Discussion -- Moderated by Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Rex Brooks (Starbourne Communications) - 10-Aug-2006 * Subject Co-Moderators Mr. Duane Nickull (Adobe) and Mr. Rex Brooks (Starbourne Communications), SOA experts themselves, put together a very knowledgeable panel that included Mr. Ron Schmelzer (Zapthink), Dr. Ken Laskey (MITRE) and Ms. Rebekah Metz (Booz Allen Hamilton), and together with a great group of participants, explored the role of ontologies and taxonomies in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designs and applications. * Date Thursday, August 10, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_08_10 * Abstract (by Duane Nickull and Rex Brooks) To explore what role ontologies and taxonomies play within a service oriented architecture environment. Ontologies and taxonomies can be employed in service oriented environments in numerous ways, through ontologies of domains, for instance health informatics or plastics manufacturing, or taxonomies of services or service categories within domains, so we want to explore how ontologies and taxonomies can improve the availability and performance of services in these roles. 3 guest speakers will each bring a unique perspective on the topic and speak for 10 minutes followed by a quick Q-and-A. After the final session, a longer group Q-and-A and discussion will take place among all participants in the session. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/ontologies-n-SOA_20060810/Ontologies-and-SOA_Panel-Discussion_AudioRecording-3204284-807435_20060810.mp3 Thu, 10 August 2006 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:48:15 service oriented architecture, soa, ontology, ontologies, taxonomy, taxonomies, controlled vocabulary, security, trust, domain ontology, common upper ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, service discovery, service contract, SOA reference model, SOA reference model architecture, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, CAP, EDXL, OASIS Dr. Patrick Cassidy * Subject Dr. Patrick Cassidy from MITRE was the Ontolog Forum invited speaker for our Thursday, July 13, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog" explaining the position of the formal upper ontology and its role in semantic interoperability, and proposes the use of a controlled "Linguistic Defining Vocabulary" that the community may find useful immediately in the task of ontologizing the Ontolog, or similar bodies of knowledge. * Date Thursday, July 13, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13 * Abstract (by Pat Cassidy) For over ten years, study groups have been exploring the potential for broad agreement on a common upper ontology as a tool for semantic interoperability. The vision of how the upper ontology will enable semantic interoperability is usually stated in terms of unifying the semantics of multiple databases, or mapping multiple domain ontologies through a common upper ontology or interlingua. This talk will describe how utility of the upper ontology for semantic integration goes beyond these scenarios, and will propose the use of an upper ontology in a way that may immediately affect the task of ontologizing the Ontolog, or similar bodies of knowledge. What I will propose in this talk is that the development of the Common Semantic Model (COSMO), an upper ontology being developed within the Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG), should be pursued in parallel with development of a natural-language interface integrating the COSMO with an English defining vocabulary. A starting version of the English defining vocabulary is available as the Longmans' defining vocabulary, used in the LDOCE dictionary. The COSMO should then be developed so as to support creation of the logical specifications corresponding to any term definitions created using the English defining vocabulary. Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog -- by Dr. Patrick Cassidy (MITRE) - 13-Jul-2006 * Subject Dr. Patrick Cassidy from MITRE was the Ontolog Forum invited speaker for our Thursday, July 13, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog" explaining the position of the formal upper ontology and its role in semantic interoperability, and proposes the use of a controlled "Linguistic Defining Vocabulary" that the community may find useful immediately in the task of ontologizing the Ontolog, or similar bodies of knowledge. * Date Thursday, July 13, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13 * Abstract (by Pat Cassidy) For over ten years, study groups have been exploring the potential for broad agreement on a common upper ontology as a tool for semantic interoperability. The vision of how the upper ontology will enable semantic interoperability is usually stated in terms of unifying the semantics of multiple databases, or mapping multiple domain ontologies through a common upper ontology or interlingua. This talk will describe how utility of the upper ontology for semantic integration goes beyond these scenarios, and will propose the use of an upper ontology in a way that may immediately affect the task of ontologizing the Ontolog, or similar bodies of knowledge. What I will propose in this talk is that the development of the Common Semantic Model (COSMO), an upper ontology being developed within the Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group (ONTACWG), should be pursued in parallel with development of a natural-language interface integrating the COSMO with an English defining vocabulary. A starting version of the English defining vocabulary is available as the Longmans' defining vocabulary, used in the LDOCE dictionary. The COSMO should then be developed so as to support creation of the logical specifications corresponding to any term definitions created using the English defining vocabulary. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/PatCassidy_20060713/DefiningVocabulary--PatCassidy_AudioRecording-3112339-391891_20060713.mp3 Thu, 13 July 2006 12:30:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:46:07 defining vocabulary, controlled vocabulary, linguistic defining vocabulary, conceptual defining vocabulary, common upper ontology, COSMO, COSMOWG, ONTACWG, ontology, knowledgebase, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, reasoner, common logic, inference, AI, XML, FOL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, LDOCE Dr. E. Michael Maximilien * Subject Dr. E. Michael Maximilien from IBM Research organized and moderated our scheduled discussion on: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session-2 - Tools, Techniques, and Approaches Panel Discussion". Invited panelists included Dr. John 'Boz' Handy-Bosma (IBM Global Services), Mr. PeterMika (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Mr. Conor Shankey (Visual Knowledge) and Mr. W. Scott Spangler (IBM Research) * Date Thursday, July 6, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_06 * Abstract (by E. M. Maximilien) In this panel we want to investigate tools, techniques, and approaches that can help us in the task of ontologizing the rich semantic conetnt of the Ontolog Forum. In particular we would like to cover: o (1) Tools to create formal and semi-formal knowledge representation (KR), e.g., OWL, Protege, and so on; o (2) Tools and services to create free-form annotations of contents, e.g., deli.cio.us, Flykr, and others, resulting in folksonomies; o (3) Research, techniques, and tools (if any) to help make sense of resulting folksonomies and ontologies; o (4) Automated techniques, tools, and research approaches to mine structure in unstructured text such as the ONTOLOG Wiki, e.g., UIMA, podzinger.com for podcast to text translation, and others; and o (5) Semantically-rich next generation collaborative platforms, e.g. semantic Wikis or other emerging web 2.0 tools. Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session 2 - Tools, Techniques, and Approaches Panel - Ontolog Forum - Moderator: Dr. E. Michael Maximilien - 6-July-2006 * Subject Dr. E. Michael Maximilien from IBM Research organized and moderated our scheduled discussion on: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session-2 - Tools, Techniques, and Approaches Panel Discussion". Invited panelists included Dr. John 'Boz' Handy-Bosma (IBM Global Services), Mr. PeterMika (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands), Mr. Conor Shankey (Visual Knowledge) and Mr. W. Scott Spangler (IBM Research) * Date Thursday, July 6, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_06 * Abstract (by E. M. Maximilien) In this panel we want to investigate tools, techniques, and approaches that can help us in the task of ontologizing the rich semantic conetnt of the Ontolog Forum. In particular we would like to cover: o (1) Tools to create formal and semi-formal knowledge representation (KR), e.g., OWL, Protege, and so on; o (2) Tools and services to create free-form annotations of contents, e.g., deli.cio.us, Flykr, and others, resulting in folksonomies; o (3) Research, techniques, and tools (if any) to help make sense of resulting folksonomies and ontologies; o (4) Automated techniques, tools, and research approaches to mine structure in unstructured text such as the ONTOLOG Wiki, e.g., UIMA, podzinger.com for podcast to text translation, and others; and o (5) Semantically-rich next generation collaborative platforms, e.g. semantic Wikis or other emerging web 2.0 tools. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/ontologizing-ontolog-2_20060706/ontologizing-ontolog-panel2_AudioRecording-3092727-736951_20060706.mp3 Thu, 06 July 2006 12:35:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:47:46 semantic web, semantic technology, web 2.0, rich media content, tagging, ontology, ontologize, body of knowledge, clustering, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, facets, faceted logic, semi-formal, augmented, collaborative, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, reasoner, inference, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, Protege, Protege Dr. Timothy Redmond * Subject Dr. Timothy Redmond from Stanford Medical Informatics was the invited speaker for our Thursday, June 29, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Developing Applications in Protege: The Protege Plugin Architecture" for those of us in the community who are, or are planning to, develop ontology-based applications. * Date Thursday, June 29, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_29 * Abstract (by Tim Redmond) Protege is a very popular ontology editor. In addition to its capabilities as a simple application for viewing and editing ontologies, it also boasts a highly flexible plugin architecture and a rich knowledge base application interface. In this talk we will describe approaches for developing graphical plugins embedded in the Protege graphical interface and to develop standalone applications based on the Protege knowledge base application interface. Developing Applications in Protege: The Protege Plugin Architecture -- by Dr. Timothy Redmond (Stanford Medical Informatics) - 26-Jun-2006 * Subject Dr. Timothy Redmond from Stanford Medical Informatics was the invited speaker for our Thursday, June 29, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Developing Applications in Protege: The Protege Plugin Architecture" for those of us in the community who are, or are planning to, develop ontology-based applications. * Date Thursday, June 29, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_29 * Abstract (by Tim Redmond) Protege is a very popular ontology editor. In addition to its capabilities as a simple application for viewing and editing ontologies, it also boasts a highly flexible plugin architecture and a rich knowledge base application interface. In this talk we will describe approaches for developing graphical plugins embedded in the Protege graphical interface and to develop standalone applications based on the Protege knowledge base application interface. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/TimRedmond_20060629/Protege-Application-Development--TimRedmond_AudioRecording-3072535-985787_20060629.mp3 Thu, 29 June 2006 12:15:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:26:45 Protege, Protege, application, development, plugin, java, ontology, plugin architecture, knowledgebase, Stanford Medical Informatics, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, reasoner, inference, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, RDF/S, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, ECLIPSE Dr. Matthew West * Subject Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and one of the authors of the ISO 18876 specifications, will be presenting to the community his talk entitled: "Integrating Data or Ontologies - A look at the ISO 18876 Architecture" * Date Thursday, June 1, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_01 * Abstract (by Matthew West) How do you do integration in practice? What are the steps you need to take? What are the things that are often overlooked? This talk will introduce the ISO 18876 integration architecture which sets out the key elements to successful integration of ontologies or data. Integrating Data or Ontologies - A look at the ISO 18876 Architecture -- by Dr. Matthew West (Shell) - 1-Jun-2006 * Subject Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and one of the authors of the ISO 18876 specifications, will be presenting to the community his talk entitled: "Integrating Data or Ontologies - A look at the ISO 18876 Architecture" * Date Thursday, June 1, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_06_01 * Abstract (by Matthew West) How do you do integration in practice? What are the steps you need to take? What are the things that are often overlooked? This talk will introduce the ISO 18876 integration architecture which sets out the key elements to successful integration of ontologies or data. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MatthewWest_20060601/ISO18876--MatthewWest_AudioRecording-2983030-676182_20060601.mp3 Thu, 1 June 2006 11:50:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:10:55 integration, federation, data, data model, ISO 18876 Architecture, Shell, Semantic Search, AI, artificial intelligence, ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL Dr. David Ferrucci * Subject Dr. David Ferrucci, a Sr. Manager from IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center and the Chief Architect for UIMA, presents his talk entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution" * Date Thursday, May 11, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_11 * Abstract (by David Ferrucci) The dream of the semantic web as well as the future of information and knowledge management applications will rely on the rapid and massive explication of intended meaning (i.e., semantics) in unstructured information sources (e.g, text documents, video, speech etc). This talk will discuss the importance of embracing and deploying automatic semantic discovery, in spite of less that perfect accuracy, to help enable the semantic web, as well as an emerging class of advanced search applications we refer to a Knowledge Gathering and Synthesis applications. It will introduce IBM's recent contribution of UIMA (http://www.ibm.com/research/uima ) to the open-source community and discuss how this work will help accelerate the production and application of automated semantic discovery. Dr. David Ferrucci from IBM Research presents his talk entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution" * Subject Dr. David Ferrucci, a Sr. Manager from IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center and the Chief Architect for UIMA, presents his talk entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution" * Date Thursday, May 11, 2006 * ONTOLOG Forum session page (with agenda and link to slides) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_11 * Abstract (by David Ferrucci) The dream of the semantic web as well as the future of information and knowledge management applications will rely on the rapid and massive explication of intended meaning (i.e., semantics) in unstructured information sources (e.g, text documents, video, speech etc). This talk will discuss the importance of embracing and deploying automatic semantic discovery, in spite of less that perfect accuracy, to help enable the semantic web, as well as an emerging class of advanced search applications we refer to a Knowledge Gathering and Synthesis applications. It will introduce IBM's recent contribution of UIMA (http://www.ibm.com/research/uima ) to the open-source community and discuss how this work will help accelerate the production and application of automated semantic discovery. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/DavidFerrucci_20060511/UIMA-SemanticWeb--DavidFerrucci_20060511_Recording-2914992-460237.mp3 Thu, 11 May 2006 12:55:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:08:42 UIMA, Unstructured Information Management Architecture, IBM Research, Semantic Search, AI, artificial intelligence, ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Mr. Adam Cheyer * Subject Mr. Adam Cheyer from SRI International presents his talk entitled: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes" * Date Thursday, May 4, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_04 * Abstract (by Adam Cheyer) CALO is one of DARPA's most ambitious efforts to develop a persistent assistant that lives with, learns from, and supports users in managing the complexities of their daily work lives. A multi-year project that unites some 200+ researchers from 25 academic and commercial organizations, the goal is to produce a single system where learning happens "in vivo", inside an ever-evolving agent that can observe, comprehend, reason, anticipate, act, and communicate. In this talk, we will first provide an overview of CALO: the what, the how, the why. Next, we will discuss the engineering methods we use to develop and maintain the ontology of CALO. CALO has some unusual requirements, such as "Concept Learning" where the ontology is extended and modified "in-the-wild" by machine learning algorithms. Finally, we will demonstrate IRIS, a semantic desktop that serves as the office environment that integrates best with CALO. IRIS leverages many of CALO's techniques to ontology management, and being open source, provides a distributable, transparent example of the approach. Mr. Adam Cheyer from SRI International presents his talk entitled: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes" * Subject Mr. Adam Cheyer from SRI International presents his talk entitled: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes" * Date Thursday, May 4, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_04 * Abstract (by Adam Cheyer) CALO is one of DARPA's most ambitious efforts to develop a persistent assistant that lives with, learns from, and supports users in managing the complexities of their daily work lives. A multi-year project that unites some 200+ researchers from 25 academic and commercial organizations, the goal is to produce a single system where learning happens "in vivo", inside an ever-evolving agent that can observe, comprehend, reason, anticipate, act, and communicate. In this talk, we will first provide an overview of CALO: the what, the how, the why. Next, we will discuss the engineering methods we use to develop and maintain the ontology of CALO. CALO has some unusual requirements, such as "Concept Learning" where the ontology is extended and modified "in-the-wild" by machine learning algorithms. Finally, we will demonstrate IRIS, a semantic desktop that serves as the office environment that integrates best with CALO. IRIS leverages many of CALO's techniques to ontology management, and being open source, provides a distributable, transparent example of the approach. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AdamCheyer_20060504/CALO--AdamCheyer_20060504_Recording-2888918-286534.mp3 Thu, 04 May 2006 12:45:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:58:00 CALO, DARPA, AI, artificial intelligence, ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Mr. Jack Park and Dr. Patrick Durusau * Subject Mr. Jack Park (SRI) and Dr. Patrick Durusau (INCITS/V1) presents to the community their talk entitled: "Avoiding Hobson's Choice In Choosing An Ontology" * Date Thursday, April 27, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_27 * Abstract (by Jack Park and Patrick Durusau) Most users of ontologies have either participated in the development of the ontology they use and/or have used it for such a period of time that they have taken ownership of it. Like a hand that grows to fit a tool, users grow comfortable with "their" ontology and can use another only with difficulty and possibly high error rates. When agencies discuss sharing information, the tendency is to offer other participants a "Hobson's Choice" of ontologies. "Of course we will use ontology X." which just happens to be the ontology of the speaker. Others make similar offers. Much discussion follows. But not very often effective integration of information. In all fairness to the imagined participants in such a discussion, unfamiliar ontologies can lead to errors and/or misunderstandings that may actually impede the interchange, pardon, the accurate interchange information. Super-ontologies don't help much when they lack the granularity needed for real tasks and simply put off the day of reckoning when actual data has to move between agencies. The Topic Maps Reference Model is a paradigm for constructing a mapping of ontologies that enables users to use "their" ontologies while integrating information that may have originated in ontologies that are completely foreign or even unknown to the user. Such mappings can support full auditing of the process of integrating information to enable users to develop a high degree of confidence in the mapping. Topic maps rely upon the fact that every part of an ontology is in fact representing a subject. And the subject that is being represented is known from the properties of those representatives. Such representatives are called subject proxies in the Topic Maps Reference Model. Those properties are used as the basis for determining when two or more subject proxies represent the same subject. Information from two or more representatives of the same subject can be merged together, providing users with information about a subject that may not have been known in their ontology. Park and Durusau explore the philosophical, theoretical and practical steps needed to avoid a Hobson's Choice in ontology discussions and to use the Topic Maps Reference Model to effectively integrate information with a high degree of confidence in the results. All while enabling users to use the ontology that is most familiar and comfortable for them. Mr. Jack Park (SRI) and Dr. Patrick Durusau (INCITS/V1) presents to the community their talk entitled: "Avoiding Hobson's Choice In Choosing An Ontology" * Subject Mr. Jack Park (SRI) and Dr. Patrick Durusau (INCITS/V1) presents to the community their talk entitled: "Avoiding Hobson's Choice In Choosing An Ontology" * Date Thursday, April 27, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_27 * Abstract (by Jack Park and Patrick Durusau) Most users of ontologies have either participated in the development of the ontology they use and/or have used it for such a period of time that they have taken ownership of it. Like a hand that grows to fit a tool, users grow comfortable with "their" ontology and can use another only with difficulty and possibly high error rates. When agencies discuss sharing information, the tendency is to offer other participants a "Hobson's Choice" of ontologies. "Of course we will use ontology X." which just happens to be the ontology of the speaker. Others make similar offers. Much discussion follows. But not very often effective integration of information. In all fairness to the imagined participants in such a discussion, unfamiliar ontologies can lead to errors and/or misunderstandings that may actually impede the interchange, pardon, the accurate interchange information. Super-ontologies don't help much when they lack the granularity needed for real tasks and simply put off the day of reckoning when actual data has to move between agencies. The Topic Maps Reference Model is a paradigm for constructing a mapping of ontologies that enables users to use "their" ontologies while integrating information that may have originated in ontologies that are completely foreign or even unknown to the user. Such mappings can support full auditing of the process of integrating information to enable users to develop a high degree of confidence in the mapping. Topic maps rely upon the fact that every part of an ontology is in fact representing a subject. And the subject that is being represented is known from the properties of those representatives. Such representatives are called subject proxies in the Topic Maps Reference Model. Those properties are used as the basis for determining when two or more subject proxies represent the same subject. Information from two or more representatives of the same subject can be merged together, providing users with information about a subject that may not have been known in their ontology. Park and Durusau explore the philosophical, theoretical and practical steps needed to avoid a Hobson's Choice in ontology discussions and to use the Topic Maps Reference Model to effectively integrate information with a high degree of confidence in the results. All while enabling users to use the ontology that is most familiar and comfortable for them. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JackPark-PatrickDurusau_20060427/SubjectMaps--JackPark-PatrickDurusau_Recording-2868909-636218_20060427.mp3 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:30:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:43:34 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Dr. Denise Bedford moderating the Ontolog Forum * Subject Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session 1 - Framing the Issues, Requirements and Approach - moderated by Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank) on 04/20/2006. The session was opens with a panel that included Ms. Lisa Colvin (Genentech), Mr. Patrick Heinig (EPA), Dr. E. Michael Maximilien (IBM), Dr. Bob Smith (California State U / Tall Tree Labs) and Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog / CIM3) * Date Thursday, April 20, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_20 * Abstract (by Denise Bedford) The Ontolog community is strategizing how to develop a baseline ontology to represent the entities, relationships and uses of content. The purpose of this ontology is to support the needs and uses of any members of the Ontolog Community. The intent is to provide a foundation upon which any member of the community could apply additional functionality or transform content into other ontology models. By content, we include the community of people, their work and expertise; all electronic archives and content created in and published via the wiki, and information that is referenced by the community members such as standards, reference models, meeting announcements and reports. We will discuss, in this session, how we should frame the issues, establish our requirements and to go about approaching this task of 'ontologizing' the Ontolog content. Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session 1 - Framing the Issues, Requirements and Approach- April 20, 2006 * Subject Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Discussion Session 1 - Framing the Issues, Requirements and Approach - moderated by Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank) on 04/20/2006. The session was opens with a panel that included Ms. Lisa Colvin (Genentech), Mr. Patrick Heinig (EPA), Dr. E. Michael Maximilien (IBM), Dr. Bob Smith (California State U / Tall Tree Labs) and Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog / CIM3) * Date Thursday, April 20, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_20 * Abstract (by Denise Bedford) The Ontolog community is strategizing how to develop a baseline ontology to represent the entities, relationships and uses of content. The purpose of this ontology is to support the needs and uses of any members of the Ontolog Community. The intent is to provide a foundation upon which any member of the community could apply additional functionality or transform content into other ontology models. By content, we include the community of people, their work and expertise; all electronic archives and content created in and published via the wiki, and information that is referenced by the community members such as standards, reference models, meeting announcements and reports. We will discuss, in this session, how we should frame the issues, establish our requirements and to go about approaching this task of 'ontologizing' the Ontolog content. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/ontologizing-ontolog-1_20060420/Ontologizing-Ontolog-Content_Discussion-Session-1-Recording-2846164-183529_20060420.mp3 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:25:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:43:00 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Dr. Denise Bedford * Subject Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation by Denise Bedford, from the World Bank Group, presents her talk entitled: andquot;Strategy for Developing an Ontology - First Stepsandquot; * Date Thursday, April 13, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_13 * Abstract Analyzing the users, use and content that will be the focus of an ontology is as important as the technologies that support its implementation. The initial analysis can determine whether your ontology is extensible and sustainable, whether you need one ontology or multiple ontologies, which technologies are best suited to implementing your ontology. This presentation will suggest a strategy for analyzing your ontological needs. The strategy derives from the approach taken to develop ontologies in the development community over the past ten years. We will take as a case in point the Ontolog content and user community. Dr. Denise Bedford from the World Bank presented to the Ontolog community on Thursday, April 13, 2006. Her talk was entitled: andquot;Strategy for Developing an Ontology - First Stepsandquot; * Subject Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation by Denise Bedford, from the World Bank Group, presents her talk entitled: andquot;Strategy for Developing an Ontology - First Stepsandquot; * Date Thursday, April 13, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_13 * Abstract Analyzing the users, use and content that will be the focus of an ontology is as important as the technologies that support its implementation. The initial analysis can determine whether your ontology is extensible and sustainable, whether you need one ontology or multiple ontologies, which technologies are best suited to implementing your ontology. This presentation will suggest a strategy for analyzing your ontological needs. The strategy derives from the approach taken to develop ontologies in the development community over the past ten years. We will take as a case in point the Ontolog content and user community. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/DeniseBedford_20060413/Ontolog-Ontologizing-Content--DeniseBedford_Recording-2826216-151374_20060413.mp3 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:06:24 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, semantic interoperability, ontology driven application, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Ontolog, NIST, UOS-Conveners, Doug Lenat, Adam Pease, Nicola Guarino, Aldo Gangemi, Michael Gruninger, John Bateman, Barry Smith, Matthew West, Steve Ray, Leo Obrst, Pat Cassidy, Dagobert Soergel, Peter Yim * Subject Proceedings from the Upper Ontology Summit on March 15, 2006, co-organized by Ontolog Forum and NIST as part of the NIST Interoperability Week. This being the: andquot;Upper Ontology Custodians' Presentationsandquot; at the Upper Ontology Summit * Date Wednesday, March 15, 2006 * Upper Ontology Summit link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15 * Abstract Purpose of the Upper Ontology Summit was to develop the mechanism and resources to relate existing upper ontologies to each other in a manner that will increase reuse of knowledge among them, and thereby facilitate semantic interoperability among other ontologies that are linked to them. We want to make the world aware that the technology of upper ontologies has developed to a point suitable for commercial exploitation. Upper Ontology Summit - organized by Ontolog and NIST on 03/15/2006 * Subject Proceedings from the Upper Ontology Summit on March 15, 2006, co-organized by Ontolog Forum and NIST as part of the NIST Interoperability Week. This being the: andquot;Upper Ontology Custodians' Presentationsandquot; at the Upper Ontology Summit * Date Wednesday, March 15, 2006 * Upper Ontology Summit link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15 * Abstract Purpose of the Upper Ontology Summit was to develop the mechanism and resources to relate existing upper ontologies to each other in a manner that will increase reuse of knowledge among them, and thereby facilitate semantic interoperability among other ontologies that are linked to them. We want to make the world aware that the technology of upper ontologies has developed to a point suitable for commercial exploitation. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/UpperOntologySummit/UO-Summit-Meeting_20050315/UOS_20060315_1500-1700.mp3 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:00:00 -0500 Information Technology no 01:42:24 upper ontology summit, ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, semantic interoperability, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac * Subject Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation by Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac, from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey presents her talk entitled: andquot;Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domainandquot; * Date Thursday, March 2, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_02 * Abstract ebXML registry is capable of storing semantics about the registry objects. This semantics is restricted to classification hierarchies with properties. However it is possible to represent some Web Ontology Language (OWL) constructs in the registry and through stored procedures it is possible to make the registry OWL aware. I will first discuss how to make ebXML registries OWL aware and then through an application in eHealth, I will discuss how this semantics can be exploited. Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey will be presenting to the community on Thursday, March 2, 2006. Her talk is entitled: andquot;Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domainandquot; * Subject Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation by Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac, from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey presents her talk entitled: andquot;Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domainandquot; * Date Thursday, March 2, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki link http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_02 * Abstract ebXML registry is capable of storing semantics about the registry objects. This semantics is restricted to classification hierarchies with properties. However it is possible to represent some Web Ontology Language (OWL) constructs in the registry and through stored procedures it is possible to make the registry OWL aware. I will first discuss how to make ebXML registries OWL aware and then through an application in eHealth, I will discuss how this semantics can be exploited. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AsumanDogac_20060302/ebXML-Semantics-in-eHealth--AsumanDogac_20060302_Recording-2661904-262415.mp3 Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:07:49 -0800 Information Technology no 01:14:00 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Dr. Matthew West * Subject Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Dr. Matthew West * Date Thu 2006-02-23 * Agenda Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and andapos;custodianandapos; of ISO 15926-2, will be presenting to the community on his talk entitled: andquot;An Introduction to 4 Dimensionalism and ISO 15926andquot;. The ISO 15926-2 specification is an integration model that uses well defined metaphysics based on spatio-temporal extents, and is highly regarded as a fine ontological work * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_23 * Abstract: (by Dr. Matthew West) In philosophy there are two main strands of ontology, 3 Dimensionalism, where physical objects pass through time, and 4 Dimensionalism, where physical objects are extended in time. This talk will introduce the key concepts of a 4 Dimensional ontology and some of the key consequences that follow from that. The talk will give examples of how 4 Dimensionalism has been implemented in the ISO 15926 ontology. Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London), and custodian of the ISO-15926 specification talk was entitled: andquot;An Introduction to 4 Dimensionalism and ISO 15926andquot; * Subject Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Dr. Matthew West * Date Thu 2006-02-23 * Agenda Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and andapos;custodianandapos; of ISO 15926-2, will be presenting to the community on his talk entitled: andquot;An Introduction to 4 Dimensionalism and ISO 15926andquot;. The ISO 15926-2 specification is an integration model that uses well defined metaphysics based on spatio-temporal extents, and is highly regarded as a fine ontological work * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_23 * Abstract: (by Dr. Matthew West) In philosophy there are two main strands of ontology, 3 Dimensionalism, where physical objects pass through time, and 4 Dimensionalism, where physical objects are extended in time. This talk will introduce the key concepts of a 4 Dimensional ontology and some of the key consequences that follow from that. The talk will give examples of how 4 Dimensionalism has been implemented in the ISO 15926 ontology. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MatthewWest_20060223/ISO15926-2--MatthewWest_AudioRecording-2637727-741115_20060223.mp3 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:11:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:54:18 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Dr. Nicola Guarino * Subject andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Nicola Guarino * Agenda Dr. Nicola Guarino, from the CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento, Italy will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; * Date Thursday, February 2, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki details page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02 * Abstract (by Nicola Guarino) I would like to organize this talk in three parts: (JLQ) i) a short introduction on the role of axiomatic, foundational ontologies; ii) a discussion on the basic ontological choices available, and on the need to establish systematic links and comparisons among them; iii) a presentation of the basic DOLCE choices in the light of the above discussion. Dr. Nicola Guarino from the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento, Italy talk is entitled: andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience.andquot; DOLCE - a Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering. * Subject andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Nicola Guarino * Agenda Dr. Nicola Guarino, from the CNR Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento, Italy will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experienceandquot; * Date Thursday, February 2, 2006 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki details page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02 * Abstract (by Nicola Guarino) I would like to organize this talk in three parts: (JLQ) i) a short introduction on the role of axiomatic, foundational ontologies; ii) a discussion on the basic ontological choices available, and on the need to establish systematic links and comparisons among them; iii) a presentation of the basic DOLCE choices in the light of the above discussion. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/NicolaGuarino_20060202/DOLCE--NicolaGuarino_AudioRecording-2549222-183026_20060202.mp3 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:46:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:40:30 ontology, ontological engineering, taxonomy, formal logic, first order logic, semantics, semantic web, semantic web services, SOA, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, inference, agent, AI, XML, UBL, RDF, OWL, DAML, DAML+OIL, OWL Dr. Leo Obrst * Invited Speaker Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE, and a co-convener of the Ontolog Forum, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, January 12, 2006 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 * Abstract By Dr. Leo Obrst The Ontology Spectrum describes a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. This presentation initially describes the Ontology Spectrum and important distinctions related to semantic models, e.g., the distinction among term, concept, and real world referent; the distinction among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; the distinction between intension and extension; and de facto distinctions that the ISO 11179 standard makes (as do many others): data objects, classification objects, terminology objects, meaning objects, and the relationships among these. The individual semantic model types are then discussed: weak and strong taxonomies, thesauri, and weak and strong ontologies (conceptual model and logical theory, respectively). Each of these are defined, exemplified, and discussed with respect to when a more expressive model is needed. If time permits, semantic integration and interoperability are discussed with respect to the models. Finally, a pointer to an expansion of the logical theory portion of the Ontology Spectrum is given: the Logic Spectrum, which describes the range of less to more expressive logics used for ontology and knowledge representation. Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE on the ontology spectrum described as a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. * Invited Speaker Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE, and a co-convener of the Ontolog Forum, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, January 12, 2006 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 * Abstract By Dr. Leo Obrst The Ontology Spectrum describes a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. This presentation initially describes the Ontology Spectrum and important distinctions related to semantic models, e.g., the distinction among term, concept, and real world referent; the distinction among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; the distinction between intension and extension; and de facto distinctions that the ISO 11179 standard makes (as do many others): data objects, classification objects, terminology objects, meaning objects, and the relationships among these. The individual semantic model types are then discussed: weak and strong taxonomies, thesauri, and weak and strong ontologies (conceptual model and logical theory, respectively). Each of these are defined, exemplified, and discussed with respect to when a more expressive model is needed. If time permits, semantic integration and interoperability are discussed with respect to the models. Finally, a pointer to an expansion of the logical theory portion of the Ontology Spectrum is given: the Logic Spectrum, which describes the range of less to more expressive logics used for ontology and knowledge representation. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/LeoObrst_20060112/OntologySpectrumSemanticModels--LeoObrst_Recording-2496706-401969_20060119.mp3 Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:21:43 -0800 Information Technology no 01:42:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Leo Obrst * Invited Speaker Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE, and a co-convener of the Ontolog Forum, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, January 12, 2006 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 * Abstract By Dr. Leo Obrst The Ontology Spectrum describes a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. This presentation initially describes the Ontology Spectrum and important distinctions related to semantic models, e.g., the distinction among term, concept, and real world referent; the distinction among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; the distinction between intension and extension; and de facto distinctions that the ISO 11179 standard makes (as do many others): data objects, classification objects, terminology objects, meaning objects, and the relationships among these. The individual semantic model types are then discussed: weak and strong taxonomies, thesauri, and weak and strong ontologies (conceptual model and logical theory, respectively). Each of these are defined, exemplified, and discussed with respect to when a more expressive model is needed. If time permits, semantic integration and interoperability are discussed with respect to the models. Finally, a pointer to an expansion of the logical theory portion of the Ontology Spectrum is given: the Logic Spectrum, which describes the range of less to more expressive logics used for ontology and knowledge representation. Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE on the ontology spectrum described as a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. * Invited Speaker Dr. Leo Obrst of MITRE, and a co-convener of the Ontolog Forum, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, January 12, 2006 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 * Abstract By Dr. Leo Obrst The Ontology Spectrum describes a range of semantic models of increasing expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model, and logical theory. This presentation initially describes the Ontology Spectrum and important distinctions related to semantic models, e.g., the distinction among term, concept, and real world referent; the distinction among syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; the distinction between intension and extension; and de facto distinctions that the ISO 11179 standard makes (as do many others): data objects, classification objects, terminology objects, meaning objects, and the relationships among these. The individual semantic model types are then discussed: weak and strong taxonomies, thesauri, and weak and strong ontologies (conceptual model and logical theory, respectively). Each of these are defined, exemplified, and discussed with respect to when a more expressive model is needed. If time permits, semantic integration and interoperability are discussed with respect to the models. Finally, a pointer to an expansion of the logical theory portion of the Ontology Spectrum is given: the Logic Spectrum, which describes the range of less to more expressive logics used for ontology and knowledge representation. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/LeoObrst_20060112/OntologySpectrumSemanticModels--LeoObrst_Recording-2473397-874999OntologySpectrumSemanticModels--LeoObrst_20060112.mp3 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:48:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:40:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Duane Nickull, Mr. Kurt Conrad, and ONTOLOG forum community * Organized and Co-Moderated by: Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems) and Kurt Conrad (The Sagebrush Group). Topic first proposed by Duane Nickull and Kurt Conrad on 2005.10.06 * Date December 15th, 2006 * Panelists LeoObrst, MITRE ItzhakRoth, Unicorn Solutions AdrianWalker, Reengineering * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page See http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_15 * Abstracts Semantic Technologies in Bioinformatics By ItzhakRoth, Unicorn Solutions, Inc. The initiative funded by a division of the NIH (National Institute of Health) aims to create an environment that provides advanced information technology support in the production, analysis, archiving, and exchange of scientific data for a diverse community of life science researchers. The target system integrates highly diverse bio-science data from numerous disparate sources, enabling access to a broad array of reference data (e.g., genes, proteins, genomics sequences, SNP, human haplotype etc.) combined with experimental data from about 20 different experimentation platforms. Semantic Interoperability via Business Rules in Open Vocabulary, Executable English By AdrianWalker, Reengineering New technologies are currently advancing the Semantic Web, based on the data semantics of XML and RDF. An advantage of RDF is that data from diverse sources can, in principle, be freely merged and repurposed. Yet we cannot expect meaningful results from simply merging previously unseen data under an existing application. We need to be able to easily state new meanings at the application level. The presentation will argue that current approaches to semantics for machine-machine interoperability need to be extended, in order to capture real world meanings for human-machine communication. We show how this can be done in a system that combines inference based on a model theory of stratified nonmontonic logic [1], with support for lightweight, open vocabulary English. One can think of this as realizing application level semantics. Mr. Duane Nickull of Adobe Systems and Mr. Kurt Conrad of the Sagebrush Group moderate on a panel discussion on ontology applications and implementations * Organized and Co-Moderated by: Duane Nickull (Adobe Systems) and Kurt Conrad (The Sagebrush Group). Topic first proposed by Duane Nickull and Kurt Conrad on 2005.10.06 * Date December 15th, 2006 * Panelists LeoObrst, MITRE ItzhakRoth, Unicorn Solutions AdrianWalker, Reengineering * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page See http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_15 * Abstracts Semantic Technologies in Bioinformatics By ItzhakRoth, Unicorn Solutions, Inc. The initiative funded by a division of the NIH (National Institute of Health) aims to create an environment that provides advanced information technology support in the production, analysis, archiving, and exchange of scientific data for a diverse community of life science researchers. The target system integrates highly diverse bio-science data from numerous disparate sources, enabling access to a broad array of reference data (e.g., genes, proteins, genomics sequences, SNP, human haplotype etc.) combined with experimental data from about 20 different experimentation platforms. Semantic Interoperability via Business Rules in Open Vocabulary, Executable English By AdrianWalker, Reengineering New technologies are currently advancing the Semantic Web, based on the data semantics of XML and RDF. An advantage of RDF is that data from diverse sources can, in principle, be freely merged and repurposed. Yet we cannot expect meaningful results from simply merging previously unseen data under an existing application. We need to be able to easily state new meanings at the application level. The presentation will argue that current approaches to semantics for machine-machine interoperability need to be extended, in order to capture real world meanings for human-machine communication. We show how this can be done in a system that combines inference based on a model theory of stratified nonmontonic logic [1], with support for lightweight, open vocabulary English. One can think of this as realizing application level semantics. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/application-implementation_20051215/Applications-Implementations_DuaneNickull-KurtConrad_Recording-2392209-330314_20051215.mp3 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:46:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Jim Spohrer * Invited Speaker Dr. James Spohrer, from IBMandapos;s Almaden Research Center, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation * Date Thursday, December 8, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 * Abstract Services sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) hopes to bring together ongoing work in computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, social and cognitive sciences, and legal sciences to develop the skills required in a services-led economy. Services are the application of knowledge and skills for the co-production of value for the service recipient. As such, a fundamental aspect of service engagement is the representation of the knowledge that the parties involved in the service process use to communicate and collaborate. Ontology development is one approach to knowledge codification that allows it to be human and machine processable and therefore help and facilitate the service enactment. Paths to service innovations, especially for services deployed over the Web (i.e., Web services and software as a service) will increasingly require better knowledge representation techniques. For instance, to automatically (or semi-automatically) discover, engage, and enact Web services solutions on the intranet as well as the internet as a whole. SSMEandapos;s primary objective is to discover means for all types of service innovation; therefore, placing ontology and other knowledge representation techniques at the center stage of the SSME agenda. Dr. Jim Spohrer of the IBM Almaden Research Center presents on Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation. * Invited Speaker Dr. James Spohrer, from IBMandapos;s Almaden Research Center, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation * Date Thursday, December 8, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 * Abstract Services sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) hopes to bring together ongoing work in computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, management sciences, social and cognitive sciences, and legal sciences to develop the skills required in a services-led economy. Services are the application of knowledge and skills for the co-production of value for the service recipient. As such, a fundamental aspect of service engagement is the representation of the knowledge that the parties involved in the service process use to communicate and collaborate. Ontology development is one approach to knowledge codification that allows it to be human and machine processable and therefore help and facilitate the service enactment. Paths to service innovations, especially for services deployed over the Web (i.e., Web services and software as a service) will increasingly require better knowledge representation techniques. For instance, to automatically (or semi-automatically) discover, engage, and enact Web services solutions on the intranet as well as the internet as a whole. SSMEandapos;s primary objective is to discover means for all types of service innovation; therefore, placing ontology and other knowledge representation techniques at the center stage of the SSME agenda. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JimSpohrer_20051208/SSME--JimSpohrer_Recording-2364681-307137_20051208.mp3 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:33:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:46:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Doug Lenat * Invited Speaker Dr. Douglas Lenat, from Cycorp (Austin, TX, USA), will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineeringandquot; * Date Thursday, November 17, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_17 * Abstract (by Doug Lenat): The pursuit of Artificial Intelligence -- from robotics to natural language processing to automated learning -- has been held back by the andquot;brittleness bottleneckandquot; caused by the need for common sense. For 21 years, weandapos;ve been priming the pump, building up a formalized corpus of such knowledge, Cyc. Along the way, weandapos;ve had to revise our preconceptions and theories, to expand our representation language and arsenal of inference methods, to find approximate yet adequate engineering solutions to problems that philosophers have grappled with for millennia such as ontologizing aspects of substances versus individual objects, time, space, causality, belief, social interactions, and so on. The process of ontological engineering had to grow and evolve throughout this enterprise, as well, such as how Cyc represents and reasons with contradictions and context. In this talk I will try to cover both the large scale picture of what weandapos;ve built and why, and the detailed picture of how itandapos;s built, and the lessons learned along the way in how and how not to do large-scale OE. I will report on our recent efforts to make Cyc more accessible to the broader community through OpenCyc and ResearchCyc, which raises issues of how multiple individuals and groups can share and integrate their extensions (and settle their differences). Finally, I will discuss an exciting new effort we have just had funded, to gather automated reasoning researchers together for a series of workshops in 2006 on speeding up inference in large knowledge bases by orders of magnitude. Dr. Doug Lenat of Cycorp presentation entitled andquot;CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineering.andquot; * Invited Speaker Dr. Douglas Lenat, from Cycorp (Austin, TX, USA), will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineeringandquot; * Date Thursday, November 17, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_17 * Abstract (by Doug Lenat): The pursuit of Artificial Intelligence -- from robotics to natural language processing to automated learning -- has been held back by the andquot;brittleness bottleneckandquot; caused by the need for common sense. For 21 years, weandapos;ve been priming the pump, building up a formalized corpus of such knowledge, Cyc. Along the way, weandapos;ve had to revise our preconceptions and theories, to expand our representation language and arsenal of inference methods, to find approximate yet adequate engineering solutions to problems that philosophers have grappled with for millennia such as ontologizing aspects of substances versus individual objects, time, space, causality, belief, social interactions, and so on. The process of ontological engineering had to grow and evolve throughout this enterprise, as well, such as how Cyc represents and reasons with contradictions and context. In this talk I will try to cover both the large scale picture of what weandapos;ve built and why, and the detailed picture of how itandapos;s built, and the lessons learned along the way in how and how not to do large-scale OE. I will report on our recent efforts to make Cyc more accessible to the broader community through OpenCyc and ResearchCyc, which raises issues of how multiple individuals and groups can share and integrate their extensions (and settle their differences). Finally, I will discuss an exciting new effort we have just had funded, to gather automated reasoning researchers together for a series of workshops in 2006 on speeding up inference in large knowledge bases by orders of magnitude. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/DougLenat_20051117/Cyc--DougLenat_Recording-2303607-620718_20051117.mp3 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:42:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:48:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Brand Niemann and ONTOLOG forum community * Topic eGov-related Ontology Community Efforts: Differentiation and Synergy * Date Nov. 10th, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_10 * Moderator Dr. Brand Niemann * Organizing Team Brand Niemann and Peter Yim * Panelists Peter Brown (EU) Suzi Lewis (cBiO) Barry Smith (NCOR) Peter Yim (Ontolog) Pat Cassidy (ONTACWG/COSMO) Marc Wine (HITOP) Steve Ray (NIST) * Ideas and preparation Topic first proposed by Brand Niemann and Peter Yim * Abstract Ontologies and Ontology Engineering are emerging with a bright future in eGovernment for Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Knowledge Computing, and Electronic Health Information, to mention a few. NCOR provides a critical link in the public-academic-private partnership needed to provide high quality ontologies and ontological engineering applications to eGovernment. Pertinent Issues we might explore during this session: The panel consists of public (PeterBrown, MarcWine, and SteveRay), academic (MarkMusen, BarrySmith, and DagobertSoergel), and private (PeterYim, PatCassidy, and MillsDavis) representatives all working with ontologies. So how can we better understand our differences and best organize ourselves to collaborate to achieve common goals and synergy? Session Format: this is be a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call: 1. weandapos;ll go around with a self-introduction of participants (10~15 minutes) 2. Introduction of Moderator and Panelists 3. Opening by Moderator 4. 5-minute introductory presentation by each panelist on their community effort and focus 5. follow by a 5-minute QandA on the specific community being introduced 6. then, a moderated open discussion by the panel and all participants 7. Summary / Conclusion / Follow-up (Moderator) Dr. Brand Niemann of the US Environmental Protection Agency moderate a panel on eGovernment-related Ontology Community Efforts. This is a Joint SICoP-Ontolog Event meeting venue at Lockheed-Martin (Reston, VA). * Topic eGov-related Ontology Community Efforts: Differentiation and Synergy * Date Nov. 10th, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_10 * Moderator Dr. Brand Niemann * Organizing Team Brand Niemann and Peter Yim * Panelists Peter Brown (EU) Suzi Lewis (cBiO) Barry Smith (NCOR) Peter Yim (Ontolog) Pat Cassidy (ONTACWG/COSMO) Marc Wine (HITOP) Steve Ray (NIST) * Ideas and preparation Topic first proposed by Brand Niemann and Peter Yim * Abstract Ontologies and Ontology Engineering are emerging with a bright future in eGovernment for Enterprise Architecture, Data Architecture, Knowledge Computing, and Electronic Health Information, to mention a few. NCOR provides a critical link in the public-academic-private partnership needed to provide high quality ontologies and ontological engineering applications to eGovernment. Pertinent Issues we might explore during this session: The panel consists of public (PeterBrown, MarcWine, and SteveRay), academic (MarkMusen, BarrySmith, and DagobertSoergel), and private (PeterYim, PatCassidy, and MillsDavis) representatives all working with ontologies. So how can we better understand our differences and best organize ourselves to collaborate to achieve common goals and synergy? Session Format: this is be a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call: 1. weandapos;ll go around with a self-introduction of participants (10~15 minutes) 2. Introduction of Moderator and Panelists 3. Opening by Moderator 4. 5-minute introductory presentation by each panelist on their community effort and focus 5. follow by a 5-minute QandA on the specific community being introduced 6. then, a moderated open discussion by the panel and all participants 7. Summary / Conclusion / Follow-up (Moderator) http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/ontology-communities_20051110/OntologyCommunitiesPanel_BrandNiemann_Recording-2284715-634638_20051011.mp3 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:51:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:58:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Bob Smith and ONTOLOG forum community * Topic andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; - Discussion Session-II (GPX) * Date Nov. 3rd, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_03 * Moderator Dr. Bob Smith * Panelists BrandNiemann, EPA, chair of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, CIO Council MarcWine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Health IT Coordination MarkMusen, Stanford University, Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Director Stanford Medical Informatics, Director National Center for Ontological Research-Stanford ChristopherChute, Professor and Chairman, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Foundation DavidWhitten, WorldVistA, Co-founder; Public Domain Knowledge Bank ConradBock, NIST * Objectives This series of Panel Discussions seeks to: 1) Identify the outlines and key landmarks of the current healthcare informatics landscape; 2) Clarify semantic interoperability issues between and amongst existing and planned standards, particularly between OMG-HL7 and OASIS initiatives; 3) Identify an appropriate Ontology Strategy and committment to business valuation; 4) Express key issues for Health Services(Sciences?) Domain Ontology organizational maturity and technology readiness levels; 5) Describe the Time dimension opportunities between remote organizational units. In addition to the previously iterated objectives of this series, Bob Smith and Rex Brooks have identified significant changes in the Healthcare Informatics Landscape which we believe should constitute a basis for specific discussions during the second half of this session: Since our first panel, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) 17-member commission has been empaneled and the first three of four contracts related to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have been granted by the Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20051006a.html These contracts are aimed to Advance Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Technology and will report to the AHIC. Because this group of panelists includes the variety of viewpoints necessary we propose that: Dr. Christopher Chute, representing HL7, Rex Brooks and Brett Trusko, representing OASIS and the International Health Continuum TC in particular, suggest one to three topics related to International Healthcare Standards; (H66) David Whitten, Brand Niemann and Marc Wine, representing Governmental and Inter-Governmental Groups, ranging from local and state to federal jurisdictions, including VistA and Marc Wineandapos;s Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP), as well as the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) which Brand chairs, suggest one to three topics from this arena; Mark Musen and Bob Smith representing Academic Institutions, and Post Doctoral Research in particular contribute one to three suggested topics from this perspective. Dr. Bob Smith of California State University Take-II (as a follow-up to our 2005.08.25 session) of the panel discussion on andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot;. * Topic andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; - Discussion Session-II (GPX) * Date Nov. 3rd, 2005 * Details on ONTOLOG Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_11_03 * Moderator Dr. Bob Smith * Panelists BrandNiemann, EPA, chair of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, CIO Council MarcWine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Health IT Coordination MarkMusen, Stanford University, Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Director Stanford Medical Informatics, Director National Center for Ontological Research-Stanford ChristopherChute, Professor and Chairman, Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Foundation DavidWhitten, WorldVistA, Co-founder; Public Domain Knowledge Bank ConradBock, NIST * Objectives This series of Panel Discussions seeks to: 1) Identify the outlines and key landmarks of the current healthcare informatics landscape; 2) Clarify semantic interoperability issues between and amongst existing and planned standards, particularly between OMG-HL7 and OASIS initiatives; 3) Identify an appropriate Ontology Strategy and committment to business valuation; 4) Express key issues for Health Services(Sciences?) Domain Ontology organizational maturity and technology readiness levels; 5) Describe the Time dimension opportunities between remote organizational units. In addition to the previously iterated objectives of this series, Bob Smith and Rex Brooks have identified significant changes in the Healthcare Informatics Landscape which we believe should constitute a basis for specific discussions during the second half of this session: Since our first panel, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) 17-member commission has been empaneled and the first three of four contracts related to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have been granted by the Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20051006a.html These contracts are aimed to Advance Nationwide Interoperable Health Information Technology and will report to the AHIC. Because this group of panelists includes the variety of viewpoints necessary we propose that: Dr. Christopher Chute, representing HL7, Rex Brooks and Brett Trusko, representing OASIS and the International Health Continuum TC in particular, suggest one to three topics related to International Healthcare Standards; (H66) David Whitten, Brand Niemann and Marc Wine, representing Governmental and Inter-Governmental Groups, ranging from local and state to federal jurisdictions, including VistA and Marc Wineandapos;s Health Information Technology Ontology Project (HITOP), as well as the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) which Brand chairs, suggest one to three topics from this arena; Mark Musen and Bob Smith representing Academic Institutions, and Post Doctoral Research in particular contribute one to three suggested topics from this perspective. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/healthcare-informatics-landscape-2_20051103/HealthcareInformatics-BobSmith_Recording-2259616-496088_20051103.mp3 Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:03:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:58:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Nicolas Rouquette and ONTOLOG forum community * Topic Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard * Moderator Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) * Organizing Team Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) John Domingue (Open University, UK) Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center) * Panelists John Domingue (WSMO) from Open University, UK MichaelGruninger (SWSF / FLOWS) from University of Toronto Amit Sheth (WSDL-S) from University of Georgia David Martin (OWL-S) from SRI International * Date 10 October 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_20 * Abstract We intend to bring together a good cross-section of top researchers and practitioners in the Semantic Web Service Ontology space, both in the panel and among the participants for this session. We will invite our panelists to open the discussion by familiarizing everyone with the different (and possibly still divergent) perspectives and approaches being taken on the subject matter -- OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S and SWSF/FLOWS ... etc., and then make a collective attempt to make some sense of the current state of affairs, and possibly suggest where things should be heading. The key initiatives that we will be talking about, will include (as mentioned above, but not limited to): o OWL-S - Web Ontology Language for Services o WSMO - Web Service Modeling Ontology o WSDL-S - Web Services (Description Language) Semantics o SWSF/FLOWS - Semantic Web Services Framework / First-oder Logic Ontology for Web Services Dr. Nicolas Rouquette of NASA JPL moderates a panel on Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard. Panelists include David Martin (OWL-S), John Domingue (WSMO), Amit Sheth (WSDL-S), and Michael Gruninger (SWSF/FLOWS). * Topic Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard * Moderator Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) * Organizing Team Nicolas Rouquette (NASA JPL) John Domingue (Open University, UK) Michael Maximilien (IBM Almaden Research Center) * Panelists John Domingue (WSMO) from Open University, UK MichaelGruninger (SWSF / FLOWS) from University of Toronto Amit Sheth (WSDL-S) from University of Georgia David Martin (OWL-S) from SRI International * Date 10 October 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_20 * Abstract We intend to bring together a good cross-section of top researchers and practitioners in the Semantic Web Service Ontology space, both in the panel and among the participants for this session. We will invite our panelists to open the discussion by familiarizing everyone with the different (and possibly still divergent) perspectives and approaches being taken on the subject matter -- OWL-S, WSMO, WSDL-S and SWSF/FLOWS ... etc., and then make a collective attempt to make some sense of the current state of affairs, and possibly suggest where things should be heading. The key initiatives that we will be talking about, will include (as mentioned above, but not limited to): o OWL-S - Web Ontology Language for Services o WSMO - Web Service Modeling Ontology o WSDL-S - Web Services (Description Language) Semantics o SWSF/FLOWS - Semantic Web Services Framework / First-oder Logic Ontology for Web Services http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/Semantic-Web-Service-Ontology-Standard_20051020/Semantic-Web-Service-Ontology-Standard_SessionRecording-2214003-690190_20051020.mp3 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:15:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:17:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Professor Barry Smith * Subject Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Professor Barry Smith * Agenda Professor Barry Smith, from the University at Buffalo, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification andquot; * Date Thursday, October 13, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 * Abstract (by Barry Smith) Attempts to develop ontologies of documents have been largely confined thus far either to e-documents or to printed documents such as newspapers or works of literature. Here we shall focus on the vast family of what we might call time-sensitive documents, for example: o identity documents (a passport with exit and entry stamps) o clinical documents (an endocrinology progress note) o business documents (a bill of shipment with signatures of sender, shipper, and recipient) We can think of the ontology of paper documents of these and related sorts as a generalization of the ontology of speech acts (statements, requests, orders, questions ...). The advantages of paper over speech include: 1. paper documents are continuants, which means that they can acquire new properties over time; they can be filled in, approved, copied, stamped, signed, counter-signed, revised, annulled, entered in a registry, archived; 2. paper documents thereby create traceable liability, and thus accountability (they leave an audit trial); 3. paper documents can be attached together, creating new document-complexes whose internal structure mirrors underlying relations (for example of debtor to creditor) among the human beings represented by and involved in creating them. I shall sketch an ontology of time-sensitive documents, focusing especially on the ways in which paper documents are used for purposes of identification in commercial and security domains, and concluding with a consideration of the feature of redundancy in documentation, a feature which proves to be indispensable when documents are used in establishing and verifying identity. Professor Barry Smith of the State University of New York at Buffalo on How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identificationß. * Subject Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by Professor Barry Smith * Agenda Professor Barry Smith, from the University at Buffalo, will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification andquot; * Date Thursday, October 13, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 * Abstract (by Barry Smith) Attempts to develop ontologies of documents have been largely confined thus far either to e-documents or to printed documents such as newspapers or works of literature. Here we shall focus on the vast family of what we might call time-sensitive documents, for example: o identity documents (a passport with exit and entry stamps) o clinical documents (an endocrinology progress note) o business documents (a bill of shipment with signatures of sender, shipper, and recipient) We can think of the ontology of paper documents of these and related sorts as a generalization of the ontology of speech acts (statements, requests, orders, questions ...). The advantages of paper over speech include: 1. paper documents are continuants, which means that they can acquire new properties over time; they can be filled in, approved, copied, stamped, signed, counter-signed, revised, annulled, entered in a registry, archived; 2. paper documents thereby create traceable liability, and thus accountability (they leave an audit trial); 3. paper documents can be attached together, creating new document-complexes whose internal structure mirrors underlying relations (for example of debtor to creditor) among the human beings represented by and involved in creating them. I shall sketch an ontology of time-sensitive documents, focusing especially on the ways in which paper documents are used for purposes of identification in commercial and security domains, and concluding with a consideration of the feature of redundancy in documentation, a feature which proves to be indispensable when documents are used in establishing and verifying identity. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/BarrySmith_20051013/Ontology_of_Documents--BarrySmith_Recording-2190080-134683_20051013.mp3 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:24:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:49:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Jon Bosak * Subject Joint Ontolog and eGov Collaborative Expedition Workshop Event - Invited Speaker Presentation by Jon Bosak * Agenda Mr. Jon Bosak from Sun Microsystems, Inc. will be presenting to the community, his talk is entitled: andquot;Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documentsandquot; * Date Friday, September 23, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki details page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_09_23 * Abstract This talk will outline the OASIS process for the development of technical specifications and share lessons learned in using the process to develop UBL (Universal Business Language), a suite of XML standards for electronic procurement. Mr. Jon Bosak of Sun Microsystems, Inc., on the Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documents. * Subject Joint Ontolog and eGov Collaborative Expedition Workshop Event - Invited Speaker Presentation by Jon Bosak * Agenda Mr. Jon Bosak from Sun Microsystems, Inc. will be presenting to the community, his talk is entitled: andquot;Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documentsandquot; * Date Friday, September 23, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki details page http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_09_23 * Abstract This talk will outline the OASIS process for the development of technical specifications and share lessons learned in using the process to develop UBL (Universal Business Language), a suite of XML standards for electronic procurement. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JonBosak_20050923/Governance_in_OASIS-UBL_Development--JonBosak_Recording-2123259-328828_20050923.mp3 Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:37:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:20:00 OASIS, UBL, Process, Open Standard, XML, Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Ms. Elisa F. Kendall * Subject Ms. Elisa F. Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. will be presenting to the community, her talk is entitled: "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies and Implementation Strategies" * Date Thursday, September 8, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_09_08 * Abstract (by Elisa Kendall) The Object Management Group (OMG) Meta Object Facility (MOF) defines the metadata architecture for Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and provides a basis for automating metadata management. Metadata, in this context, includes database schema, UML (Unified Modeling Language) models, workflow models, business process models, business rules, API definitions, and so on. MOF defines standards for automating the physical management and integration of different kinds of metadata through metamodels and mappings among them. The Semantic Web is a logical extension of existing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, such as XML, XML Schema, and SOAP that enables explicit representation of business semantics. The goal is to make domain-specific context, nomenclature, and the language used to describe content and services on the web unambiguous from a computing perspective. Its underlying formalisms and technologies have evolved from more than two decades of research in knowledge representation, computational linguistics, and automated reasoning. MDA and the Semantic Web were conceived independently and evolved with little cross-pollination over the course of several years. However, participants from both communities have recognized business benefits to bridging the two technologies to form a coherent, enterprise information interoperability architecture. The main realization of this to date is the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) standard, which is nearing completion in OMG with the participation of key members of the Semantic Web community. In this talk, we will: 1) Provide a high-level overview of the technology areas. 2) Introduce some of the standards and related work that has been done to date to bridge these communities. Discuss the relationships between these standards and others emerging from the ISO/IEC Metadata standards community (e.g., ISO 11179, ISO 19763, XMDR) 3) Discuss related efforts in the W3C and OMG and how they may relate to the ODM over the course of the next couple of years (e.g., W3C Semantic Web Services and Rules, OMG Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR), Production Rules) 4) Explore ground-breaking research and its implications for next generation architectures and solutions that embrace the marriage of MDA and Semantic Web services technologies. Ms. Elisa F. Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. presented to the community on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2005. Her talk was entitled: "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies and Implementation Strategies." * Subject Ms. Elisa F. Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. will be presenting to the community, her talk is entitled: "The Model Driven Semantic Web - Emerging Technologies and Implementation Strategies" * Date Thursday, September 8, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_09_08 * Abstract (by Elisa Kendall) The Object Management Group (OMG) Meta Object Facility (MOF) defines the metadata architecture for Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and provides a basis for automating metadata management. Metadata, in this context, includes database schema, UML (Unified Modeling Language) models, workflow models, business process models, business rules, API definitions, and so on. MOF defines standards for automating the physical management and integration of different kinds of metadata through metamodels and mappings among them. The Semantic Web is a logical extension of existing World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, such as XML, XML Schema, and SOAP that enables explicit representation of business semantics. The goal is to make domain-specific context, nomenclature, and the language used to describe content and services on the web unambiguous from a computing perspective. Its underlying formalisms and technologies have evolved from more than two decades of research in knowledge representation, computational linguistics, and automated reasoning. MDA and the Semantic Web were conceived independently and evolved with little cross-pollination over the course of several years. However, participants from both communities have recognized business benefits to bridging the two technologies to form a coherent, enterprise information interoperability architecture. The main realization of this to date is the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) standard, which is nearing completion in OMG with the participation of key members of the Semantic Web community. In this talk, we will: 1) Provide a high-level overview of the technology areas. 2) Introduce some of the standards and related work that has been done to date to bridge these communities. Discuss the relationships between these standards and others emerging from the ISO/IEC Metadata standards community (e.g., ISO 11179, ISO 19763, XMDR) 3) Discuss related efforts in the W3C and OMG and how they may relate to the ODM over the course of the next couple of years (e.g., W3C Semantic Web Services and Rules, OMG Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR), Production Rules) 4) Explore ground-breaking research and its implications for next generation architectures and solutions that embrace the marriage of MDA and Semantic Web services technologies. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/ElisaKendall_20050908/The_Model_Driven_Semantic_Web--ElisaKendall_Recording-2079260-149405_20050908.mp3 Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:48:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:06:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, OMG, MOF, MDA, ODM, UML, Elisa Kendall, W3C, Semantic Web, Mr. Rex Brooks and ONTOLOG forum community * Topic andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; * Moderator Rex Brooks * Panelists Bob Smith, Professor Emeritus, California State University Brand Niemann, EPA, chair of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, CIO Council David Whitten, WorldVistA, Co-founder; Public Domain Knowledge Bank Marc Wine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Health IT Coordination Mark Musen, Stanford University, Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Director Stanford Medical Informatics Ram Sriram, NIST, Manager, andquot;Manufacturing Metrology and Standards for the Health Care Enterpriseandquot; program * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 * Abstract 1. Objectives This Panel Discussion seeks to: + identify the outlines and key landmarks of the current healthcare informatics landscape; + clarify semantic interoperability issues between and amongst existing and planned standards, particularly between OMG-HL7 and OASIS initiatives; + identify an appropriate Ontology Strategy and committment to business valuation; + express key issues for Health Services(Sciences?) Domain Ontology organizational maturity and technology readiness levels; + describe the Time dimension opportunities between remote organizational units. 2. Background: Prior Ontolog Discussion Forums have focused upon topics such as Services Sciences and Ontologies and Tagging for an increasingly focused audience of interdisciplinary experts and cross-disciplinary practitioners, while recent Ontolog Speaker Forums have examined topics of: WorldVistA entitled: andquot;The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Modelandquot; for an audience of communities seeking interoperability in Electronic Healthcare issues; (F2A) andquot;Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoningandquot; for an audience of communities seeking interoperability in Business Processing; andquot;The Maturity of Business Ontologies and Rate of Adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborationsandquot; for an audience of communities interested in examining the issues of Semantic Web development in the business domain. We wish to engage thought leaders on healthcare informatic frontiers because there are many converging efforts heading in similar directions for standardizing the range of business functions that support healthcare delivery. In other words, the timing is ripe and right for the development of a new ontological viewpoint to guide this committment and inform a strategy to harmonize these converging efforts seamlessly and without a wasteful conflict of competing organizations trying to achieve the same goal. Mr. Rex Brooks from HumanMarkup.org organized and moderating our Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005 discussion session. The topic was andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; * Topic andquot;Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projectsandquot; * Moderator Rex Brooks * Panelists Bob Smith, Professor Emeritus, California State University Brand Niemann, EPA, chair of the federal Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice, CIO Council David Whitten, WorldVistA, Co-founder; Public Domain Knowledge Bank Marc Wine, GSA Office of Intergovernmental Solutions, Health IT Coordination Mark Musen, Stanford University, Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Director Stanford Medical Informatics Ram Sriram, NIST, Manager, andquot;Manufacturing Metrology and Standards for the Health Care Enterpriseandquot; program * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_25 * Abstract 1. Objectives This Panel Discussion seeks to: + identify the outlines and key landmarks of the current healthcare informatics landscape; + clarify semantic interoperability issues between and amongst existing and planned standards, particularly between OMG-HL7 and OASIS initiatives; + identify an appropriate Ontology Strategy and committment to business valuation; + express key issues for Health Services(Sciences?) Domain Ontology organizational maturity and technology readiness levels; + describe the Time dimension opportunities between remote organizational units. 2. Background: Prior Ontolog Discussion Forums have focused upon topics such as Services Sciences and Ontologies and Tagging for an increasingly focused audience of interdisciplinary experts and cross-disciplinary practitioners, while recent Ontolog Speaker Forums have examined topics of: WorldVistA entitled: andquot;The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Modelandquot; for an audience of communities seeking interoperability in Electronic Healthcare issues; (F2A) andquot;Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoningandquot; for an audience of communities seeking interoperability in Business Processing; andquot;The Maturity of Business Ontologies and Rate of Adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborationsandquot; for an audience of communities interested in examining the issues of Semantic Web development in the business domain. We wish to engage thought leaders on healthcare informatic frontiers because there are many converging efforts heading in similar directions for standardizing the range of business functions that support healthcare delivery. In other words, the timing is ripe and right for the development of a new ontological viewpoint to guide this committment and inform a strategy to harmonize these converging efforts seamlessly and without a wasteful conflict of competing organizations trying to achieve the same goal. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/healthcare-informatics-landscape_20050825/HealthcareInformatics-RexBrooks_Recording-2028397-724931_20050825.mp3 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:54:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:12:36 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Professor James Hendler * Subject Invited Speaker Presentation - Jim Hendler - Thu 2005-08-11 * Agenda Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland will be doing a andquot;Semantic Web Q and Aandquot; with the community * Date Thursday, August 11, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11 * Abstract (by Professor Hendler) The Ontolog community has heard many presentations touching on what the Semantic Web is, how it interacts with ontology development and/or web services, and what semantics might offer. By now, you must have questions you want answered about the hows and whys of RDF, OWL, and the emerging Semantic Web Rules and Services areas. Rather than an organized talk, I will put myself at your disposal to answer questions about what these technologies are, how they can be used, and where theyandapos;ll go next. So come and ask, and Iandapos;ll do my best to answer. Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland did a andquot;Semantic Web Q and Aandquot; session with the community on Thursday August 11, 2005. * Subject Invited Speaker Presentation - Jim Hendler - Thu 2005-08-11 * Agenda Professor Jim Hendler from the University of Maryland will be doing a andquot;Semantic Web Q and Aandquot; with the community * Date Thursday, August 11, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11 * Abstract (by Professor Hendler) The Ontolog community has heard many presentations touching on what the Semantic Web is, how it interacts with ontology development and/or web services, and what semantics might offer. By now, you must have questions you want answered about the hows and whys of RDF, OWL, and the emerging Semantic Web Rules and Services areas. Rather than an organized talk, I will put myself at your disposal to answer questions about what these technologies are, how they can be used, and where theyandapos;ll go next. So come and ask, and Iandapos;ll do my best to answer. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/JimHendler_20050811/SemanticWebQnA--JimHendler_Recording-1972537-788091_20050811.mp3 Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:04:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:34:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Anders W. Tell * Subject Invited Speaker Presentation - AndersTell - Thu 2005-07-14 * Agenda Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;The maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborationsandquot; * Date Thursday, July 14, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_07_14 * Abstract (by Anders Tell) During the last few years a relatively large number of technologies for eCommerce and business integration has been suggested, developed and to a degree standardised. However most commercial trade transaction are still today executed with little to no electronic means, i.e. paper based. A key question must be raised how much andquot;businessandquot; such technologies really include? Concerns are also being raised with regards to proposed solutions being overly complex, technological and costly, such as PKI, and that simpler pragmatic means may actually be a faster road to an efficient end. The session focus on an elaboration on selected key business and legal aspects that may differentiate andquot;business technologiesandquot; from andquot;technologies that support businessandquot;. This from the viewpoint and assumption that business mean changes in social, business, economical and legal relations. Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) on the maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborations. * Subject Invited Speaker Presentation - AndersTell - Thu 2005-07-14 * Agenda Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) will be presenting to the community. His talk is entitled: andquot;The maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborationsandquot; * Date Thursday, July 14, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_07_14 * Abstract (by Anders Tell) During the last few years a relatively large number of technologies for eCommerce and business integration has been suggested, developed and to a degree standardised. However most commercial trade transaction are still today executed with little to no electronic means, i.e. paper based. A key question must be raised how much andquot;businessandquot; such technologies really include? Concerns are also being raised with regards to proposed solutions being overly complex, technological and costly, such as PKI, and that simpler pragmatic means may actually be a faster road to an efficient end. The session focus on an elaboration on selected key business and legal aspects that may differentiate andquot;business technologiesandquot; from andquot;technologies that support businessandquot;. This from the viewpoint and assumption that business mean changes in social, business, economical and legal relations. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AndersTell_20050714/BusinessOntologies--AndersTell_SessionRecording-1910091-953907_20050714c.mp3 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:08:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:02:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Professor Bill McCarthy * Topic andquot;Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service Sciences -- Ontological Implications of Service Oriented Architectureandquot; * Moderator Professor Bill McCarthy of Michigan State University * Panelists Duane Nickull (Adobe / UN/CEFACT) - Service Oriented Architecture (or someone representing the UN/CEFACT work on the SOA) George Brown (Intel / Arizona State U / IMS) - POSE (Pattern Ontology for the extended Service Enterprise) Michael Gruninger (NIST) - PSL, Ontological Engineering * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_30 * Abstract (by BillMcCarthy) Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service Sciences -- Ontological Implications of SOA Traditionally, trading partners -- both within and between firms -- trafficked in bundled tangible products like consumer goods or partially assembled finished goods. Many early e-commerce standards assumed implicitly product-based exchanges. Increasingly however, the growth in exchange and bundling of Services in the US and in other economies has supplanted tangible goods as the raison d'etre of international and domestic commerce. Estimates of the percentage of the gross domestic product of the US due to services (as opposed to goods) range as high as 80%. This trend has led to increased interest in services and the establishment of new research centers like the proposed andquot;Center for Services Sciencesandquot; at U.C. Berkeley. A good of overview of such trends is the brief article by Henry Chesbrough: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9b743b2a-0e0b-11d9-97d3-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=6f0b3526-07e3-11d9-9673-00000e2511c8.html In e-commerce, this growth in service provision has been mirrored by the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures which support integration and creation of composite solutions (bundles of services) from loosely-coupled components assembled both within an enterprise (outputs from legacy applications) and outside of the enterprise (typically XML-based Web services). Whether or not the integrated services originate from incompatible operations inside the firm or from incompatible vendor interfaces from outside the firms, semantic inconsistencies, redundancies, and discrepancies make the vision of integrated services an ontological problem. The purpose of this panel is to explore the ontological implications of Service Sciences in general and of Service-Oriented Architectures in particular. We will start our Ontolog session with some general comments from notable practitioners in the SOA and ontology areas. We will then open up the discussion to more general comments and critiques. Professor William E. McCarthy from Michigan State University will be moderating our Thursday, June 30, 2005 technical discussion session. The topic will be andquot;Ontological Implications of Service Oriented Architecture.andquot; * Topic andquot;Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service Sciences -- Ontological Implications of Service Oriented Architectureandquot; * Moderator Professor Bill McCarthy of Michigan State University * Panelists Duane Nickull (Adobe / UN/CEFACT) - Service Oriented Architecture (or someone representing the UN/CEFACT work on the SOA) George Brown (Intel / Arizona State U / IMS) - POSE (Pattern Ontology for the extended Service Enterprise) Michael Gruninger (NIST) - PSL, Ontological Engineering * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_30 * Abstract (by BillMcCarthy) Interoperability Concerns in the Growth of Service Sciences -- Ontological Implications of SOA Traditionally, trading partners -- both within and between firms -- trafficked in bundled tangible products like consumer goods or partially assembled finished goods. Many early e-commerce standards assumed implicitly product-based exchanges. Increasingly however, the growth in exchange and bundling of Services in the US and in other economies has supplanted tangible goods as the raison d’etre of international and domestic commerce. Estimates of the percentage of the gross domestic product of the US due to services (as opposed to goods) range as high as 80%. This trend has led to increased interest in services and the establishment of new research centers like the proposed andquot;Center for Services Sciencesandquot; at U.C. Berkeley. A good of overview of such trends is the brief article by Henry Chesbrough: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9b743b2a-0e0b-11d9-97d3-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=6f0b3526-07e3-11d9-9673-00000e2511c8.html In e-commerce, this growth in service provision has been mirrored by the advent of Service-Oriented Architectures which support integration and creation of composite solutions (bundles of services) from loosely-coupled components assembled both within an enterprise (outputs from legacy applications) and outside of the enterprise (typically XML-based Web services). Whether or not the integrated services originate from incompatible operations inside the firm or from incompatible vendor interfaces from outside the firms, semantic inconsistencies, redundancies, and discrepancies make the vision of integrated services an ontological problem. The purpose of this panel is to explore the ontological implications of Service Sciences in general and of Service-Oriented Architectures in particular. We will start our Ontolog session with some general comments from notable practitioners in the SOA and ontology areas. We will then open up the discussion to more general comments and critiques. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/ontological-implications-of-SOA_20050630/Ontological-Implications-of-SOA--BillMcCarthy_Recording-1873966-192414_20050630.mp3 Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:16:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:49:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. David Whitten and Mr. Chris Richardson * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - David Whitten and Chris Richardson - Thu 2005-06-16 * Agenda David Whitten and Chris Richardson from WorldVistA will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Modelandquot; * Date Thursday, June 16, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_16 * Abstract The VistA Model has been adapted to the changes in medical health over the last 25 years. Change and adaptation is important to the longevity and success of the VistA model. The advantages discovered and lessons learned at one site are adapted to the framework of the existing VistA model. This ability to allow the whole framework to adapt to the changes of the onslaught of the technology is the power of this Open Source model. The capabilities to do AI in this environment has not been fully explored. Some of the potential opportunities will be described in this presentation. Mr. David Whitten and Mr. Chris Richardson from WorldVistA gave a talk entitled: andquot;The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Model.andquot; * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - David Whitten and Chris Richardson - Thu 2005-06-16 * Agenda David Whitten and Chris Richardson from WorldVistA will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Importance of Dynamism in the OpenVistA Modelandquot; * Date Thursday, June 16, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_16 * Abstract The VistA Model has been adapted to the changes in medical health over the last 25 years. Change and adaptation is important to the longevity and success of the VistA model. The advantages discovered and lessons learned at one site are adapted to the framework of the existing VistA model. This ability to allow the whole framework to adapt to the changes of the onslaught of the technology is the power of this Open Source model. The capabilities to do AI in this environment has not been fully explored. Some of the potential opportunities will be described in this presentation. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/DavidWhitten-ChrisRichardson_20050616/VistA_DavidWhitten-ChrisRichardson_Recording-1838939-502605_20050616.mp3 Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:22:00 -0700 Information Technology no 02:04:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Ms. Monica Martin * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - MonicaMartin - Thu 2005-05-26 * Agenda Ms. Monica Martin from Sun Microsystems will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoningandquot; * Date Thursday, May 26, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_05_26 * Abstract Business is looking for ways to squeeze dollars and increase operational efficiency through business process automation and integration. Business integration and business process management are gaining momentum, with evolving standards in tow. Foundational and composed services are being developed and advanced capabilities in the Business Process Management (BPM) space are gaining momentum, following on the tails of large corporate technology investment (and marketing dollars). Process automation and integration are being approached in many ways: o Through computable languages o Through messaging o Through logical entities and abstractions With new and advanced capabilities, abstractions and constraints (context, policy, quality of service, etc), the complexity brings many challenges. Emerging technologies are embracing mathematical and semantic building blocks to enable future BPM solutions (such as semantic variables, conformance typing systems, process matching, etc). Taking a pragmatic iterative approach, new conceptual building blocks are being developed to lay the groundwork for use of semantic reasoning as part of the ongoing progress and success of BPM. This brief will harvest a few examples evident in emerging technologies. Ms. Monica Martin from Sun Microsystems gave a talk entitled: andquot;Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoning.andquot; * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - MonicaMartin - Thu 2005-05-26 * Agenda Ms. Monica Martin from Sun Microsystems will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Enhancing Business Processes Using Semantic Reasoningandquot; * Date Thursday, May 26, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_05_26 * Abstract Business is looking for ways to squeeze dollars and increase operational efficiency through business process automation and integration. Business integration and business process management are gaining momentum, with evolving standards in tow. Foundational and composed services are being developed and advanced capabilities in the Business Process Management (BPM) space are gaining momentum, following on the tails of large corporate technology investment (and marketing dollars). Process automation and integration are being approached in many ways: o Through computable languages o Through messaging o Through logical entities and abstractions With new and advanced capabilities, abstractions and constraints (context, policy, quality of service, etc), the complexity brings many challenges. Emerging technologies are embracing mathematical and semantic building blocks to enable future BPM solutions (such as semantic variables, conformance typing systems, process matching, etc). Taking a pragmatic iterative approach, new conceptual building blocks are being developed to lay the groundwork for use of semantic reasoning as part of the ongoing progress and success of BPM. This brief will harvest a few examples evident in emerging technologies. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MonicaMartin_20050526/EnhancingBusinessProcesses--MonicaMartin_AudioRecording-1776042-898528_20050526a.mp3 Thu, 26 May 2005 10:28:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:46:06 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Mark Greaves * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - MarkGreaves - Thu 2005-05-12 * Agenda Dr. Mark Greaves from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (andquot;DARPAandquot;) will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPAandquot; * Date Thursday, May 12, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_05_12 * Abstract MarkGreaves: In this talk I will review the status of the DARPAandapos;s DAML program -- the flagship semantic web RandD program in the United States. DAML-funded researchers were key players in the development of OWL, OWL/S (OWL for Services), and SWRL (Semantic Web Rules Language), and they have created a large library of high-quality open source tools accessible at andlt;http://www.semwebcentral.organdgt;. The DAML program ends this year having exceeded its original goals. I will conclude with a discussion of the requirements for a new semantic web program at DARPA, and an invitation to the Ontolog community. Dr. Mark Greaves from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (andquot;DARPAandquot;) will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPA.andquot; * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - MarkGreaves - Thu 2005-05-12 * Agenda Dr. Mark Greaves from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (andquot;DARPAandquot;) will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPAandquot; * Date Thursday, May 12, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_05_12 * Abstract MarkGreaves: In this talk I will review the status of the DARPAandapos;s DAML program -- the flagship semantic web RandD program in the United States. DAML-funded researchers were key players in the development of OWL, OWL/S (OWL for Services), and SWRL (Semantic Web Rules Language), and they have created a large library of high-quality open source tools accessible at andlt;http://www.semwebcentral.organdgt;. The DAML program ends this year having exceeded its original goals. I will conclude with a discussion of the requirements for a new semantic web program at DARPA, and an invitation to the Ontolog community. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MarkGreaves_20050512/Future-of-SWtech-at-DARPA--MarkGreaves_Recording-1730741-172388_20050512.mp3 Thu, 12 May 2005 10:32:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:36:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Nicolas Rouquette * Discussion topic Ontologies and Tagging (aka: elaborating a hybrid ontology with bits and pieces from here and there) * Moderator Dr. Nicolas Rouquette - NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology * Attendees Peter Yim Kurt Conrad Bob Smith James Douma Adam Pease Jayne Dutra (NASA/JPL) Nicolas Rouquette Pat Cassidy * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_28 * Postground AdamPease pointed out to several incorrect statements made about SUMO, particularly with respect to the modularity of SUMO itself. The notes below should be read with the understanding that they may represent incorrect views about SUMO or about other ontologies. (NicolasRouquette) * Background The popularity of the andquot;semantic webandquot; and furious pace of andquot;ontologyandquot; development in particular have created a very exciting bubble of research and development activity. From a pragmatic perspective, bleeding edge research has the potential to simplify and improve application-specific ontology development. Bleeding-edge technology has a strong risk stigma associated to it. However, ontology-based development is perhaps a unique kind of bleeding-edge technology where the risk of using it has turned into a fuzzy, bleeding-edge concept of its own. * Goals Assemble a panel of practitioners and experts with a pulse the bleeding edge to review new developments and advances in the field that pertain to the adoption of recommended practices, particularly, modular ontology development and the role of annotation tags in this process. Dr. Nicolas Rouquette from NASA/JPL, again, moderated our Thursday, Apr. 28, 2005 technical discussion session. The topic was andquot;Ontologies and Tagging.andquot; * Discussion topic Ontologies and Tagging (aka: elaborating a hybrid ontology with bits and pieces from here and there) * Moderator Dr. Nicolas Rouquette - NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology * Attendees Peter Yim Kurt Conrad Bob Smith James Douma Adam Pease Jayne Dutra (NASA/JPL) Nicolas Rouquette Pat Cassidy * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_28 * Postground AdamPease pointed out to several incorrect statements made about SUMO, particularly with respect to the modularity of SUMO itself. The notes below should be read with the understanding that they may represent incorrect views about SUMO or about other ontologies. (NicolasRouquette) * Background The popularity of the andquot;semantic webandquot; and furious pace of andquot;ontologyandquot; development in particular have created a very exciting bubble of research and development activity. From a pragmatic perspective, bleeding edge research has the potential to simplify and improve application-specific ontology development. Bleeding-edge technology has a strong risk stigma associated to it. However, ontology-based development is perhaps a unique kind of bleeding-edge technology where the risk of using it has turned into a fuzzy, bleeding-edge concept of its own. * Goals Assemble a panel of practitioners and experts with a pulse the bleeding edge to review new developments and advances in the field that pertain to the adoption of recommended practices, particularly, modular ontology development and the role of annotation tags in this process. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/Ontologies-and-Tagging_NicholasRouquette-moderator_Recording-1701405-894172_20050428.mp3 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:37:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Michael Uschold * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - Michael Uschold - Thu 2005-04-21 * Agenda Dr. Michael Uschold from Boeing will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Semantic Filteringandquot; * Date Thursday, Apr. 21, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_21 * Abstract We describe a prototype implementation of a semantic filtering capability added to an existing XML-based publish and subscribe infrastructure. An ontology is used to provide vocabulary for expressing both 1) the semantic annotations that characterize the published documents and 2) the subscriptions specifying the class of documents to be routed to a given client. A description logic (DL) classifier is used to determine which subscribers an incoming document is routed to. We outline the key elements of the ontology for an enterprise activity reporting domain and give some sample annotations and subscriptions. This is the basis for describing a number of scenarios showing how this filtering capability could be used in practice. We critically analyze the suitability of a DL language and reasoner in general, and the particular implementation choices (OWL, FaCT and OilEd) for performing this task. A key result of the work is to demonstrate the importance of testing semantics-based technologies on practical problems. We discovered a number of new and interesting areas for future work, which in turn can direct the focus of the research community. Dr. Michael Uschold from Boeing gave a talk entitled: andquot;Semantic Filteringandquot; on April 21, 2005. * Subject [ontolog] Invited Speaker Presentation - Michael Uschold - Thu 2005-04-21 * Agenda Dr. Michael Uschold from Boeing will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Semantic Filteringandquot; * Date Thursday, Apr. 21, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_04_21 * Abstract We describe a prototype implementation of a semantic filtering capability added to an existing XML-based publish and subscribe infrastructure. An ontology is used to provide vocabulary for expressing both 1) the semantic annotations that characterize the published documents and 2) the subscriptions specifying the class of documents to be routed to a given client. A description logic (DL) classifier is used to determine which subscribers an incoming document is routed to. We outline the key elements of the ontology for an enterprise activity reporting domain and give some sample annotations and subscriptions. This is the basis for describing a number of scenarios showing how this filtering capability could be used in practice. We critically analyze the suitability of a DL language and reasoner in general, and the particular implementation choices (OWL, FaCT and OilEd) for performing this task. A key result of the work is to demonstrate the importance of testing semantics-based technologies on practical problems. We discovered a number of new and interesting areas for future work, which in turn can direct the focus of the research community. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MichaelUschold_20050421/SemanticFiltering--MichaelUschols_AudioRecording-1674226-414666_20050421a.mp3 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:56:00 -0700 Information Technology no 01:50:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Kurt Conrad and ONTOLOG forum community * Topic Technical Topic of: andquot;Issues Associated with Converting Ontologies Between Representations (especially via Protégé imports and exports)andquot; * Date March 31, 2005 * Moderator Mr. Kurt Conrad, the Sagebrush Group * Attendees Mark Musen Ray Fergerson Olivier Dameron James Douma Peter Yim Adam Pease Monica Martin Chris Menzel Kurt Conrad Pat Cassidy Peter Denno David Whitten * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_31 Mr. Kurt Conrad, our co-conveners, moderated our 2nd OntologDiscussion session on Mar. 31, 2005. The Technical Topic of: andquot;Issues Associated with Converting Ontologies Between Representations (especially via Protégé imports and exports)andquot; * Topic Technical Topic of: andquot;Issues Associated with Converting Ontologies Between Representations (especially via Protégé imports and exports)andquot; * Date March 31, 2005 * Moderator Mr. Kurt Conrad, the Sagebrush Group * Attendees Mark Musen Ray Fergerson Olivier Dameron James Douma Peter Yim Adam Pease Monica Martin Chris Menzel Kurt Conrad Pat Cassidy Peter Denno David Whitten * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_31 http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/OntologiesConversion_20050331/ConvertingOntologies_Yim-Conrad_TechDiscussionRecording-1621531-601062_20050331.mp3 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:59:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:46:48 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Professor William E. McCarthy * Subject/Agenda Professor William E. McCarthy will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Integration of an Accounting Domain Ontology (REA) with an Upper Ontology (SUMO)andquot; * Date Thursday, Mar. 17, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_17 * Abstract The REA (Resource-Event-Agent) enterprise ontology is a well-accepted model of the concepts and relationships that exist in a normal economic exchange between companies or conversions within companies. REA is based upon a foundation grounded in both accounting and economic theories of the firm, and it is used in the accounting domain extensively for both research and teaching in accounting systems. The seminal REA paper was published in The Accounting Review in 1982, and its basic framework has been extended multiple times in recent years in work by Geerts and McCarthy. The REA ontology has been used in standards work within the UN/CEFACT, ISO, and other standards bodies. All domain ontologies need to reconciled eventually to an upper ontology if they expect to be used extensively across domains, and the interrelated domain concepts and associations need to be mapped to those of the upper ontology where those correspondences exist. The upper ontology to be used in this mapping exercise with REA is SUMO, the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, one of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working group starter documents. SUMO is extensively used and researched in the computer science community, and its conceptual structures are better defined and integrated than those of more informal ontological frameworks like Bunge and Sowa. Sowa’s conceptual framework fits REA well, but Bunge’s is a clear conceptual mismatch. Mapping to more general ideas and axioms can be both a quality control and a concept expansion exercise. There are bound to be many gaps and overlaps, just as one would find in mapping individual external schemas to a more general conceptual schema in the database design process of view modeling and view integration. The integration exercise to be described in this presentation is most certainly preliminary, and it is being accomplished by an REA expert who is also an acknowledged SUMO novice. The domain concepts of REA work extremely well in the process modeling of inter-firm business collaborations and in the re-orientation of basic accounting ideas away from the artifactual grip of general ledgers and traditional accounting reporting. Their integration with SUMO will be another step on the path to assessing their suitability for use as a more general enterprise ontology. Professor William E. McCarthy from Michigan State University will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Integration of an Accounting Domain Ontology (REA) with an Upper Ontology (SUMO)andquot; * Subject/Agenda Professor William E. McCarthy will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;The Integration of an Accounting Domain Ontology (REA) with an Upper Ontology (SUMO)andquot; * Date Thursday, Mar. 17, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_03_17 * Abstract The REA (Resource-Event-Agent) enterprise ontology is a well-accepted model of the concepts and relationships that exist in a normal economic exchange between companies or conversions within companies. REA is based upon a foundation grounded in both accounting and economic theories of the firm, and it is used in the accounting domain extensively for both research and teaching in accounting systems. The seminal REA paper was published in The Accounting Review in 1982, and its basic framework has been extended multiple times in recent years in work by Geerts and McCarthy. The REA ontology has been used in standards work within the UN/CEFACT, ISO, and other standards bodies. All domain ontologies need to reconciled eventually to an upper ontology if they expect to be used extensively across domains, and the interrelated domain concepts and associations need to be mapped to those of the upper ontology where those correspondences exist. The upper ontology to be used in this mapping exercise with REA is SUMO, the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, one of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working group starter documents. SUMO is extensively used and researched in the computer science community, and its conceptual structures are better defined and integrated than those of more informal ontological frameworks like Bunge and Sowa. Sowa’s conceptual framework fits REA well, but Bunge’s is a clear conceptual mismatch. Mapping to more general ideas and axioms can be both a quality control and a concept expansion exercise. There are bound to be many gaps and overlaps, just as one would find in mapping individual external schemas to a more general conceptual schema in the database design process of view modeling and view integration. The integration exercise to be described in this presentation is most certainly preliminary, and it is being accomplished by an REA expert who is also an acknowledged SUMO novice. The domain concepts of REA work extremely well in the process modeling of inter-firm business collaborations and in the re-orientation of basic accounting ideas away from the artifactual grip of general ledgers and traditional accounting reporting. Their integration with SUMO will be another step on the path to assessing their suitability for use as a more general enterprise ontology. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/BillMcCarthy_20050317/Integrating-REA-Ontology-with-SUMO--BillMcCarthy_Recording-1579542-592764_20050317.mp3 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:14:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:48:30 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Dr. Nicolas Rouquette and ONTOLOG forum community * Discussion topic Ontologies and Meta-Ontologies: practical considerations * Moderator Dr. Nicolas Rouquette - NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologDiscussion/MetaOntologies_And_Ontologies * Background Using the analogy associating an ontology as an analog to the concept of a reusable software library with its API, then we can look towards modern approaches of reusable software development practices as an inspiration for modular ontology development. The naive approach for modular, object-oriented software development relies heavily on subclassing as the mechanism to decouple a reusable module (i.e., the superclass) with a specific usage of that module in a given application context (i.e., the subclass that derives from the moduleandapos;s superclass). There is a growing body of evidence that this approach is inherently brittle in software engineering. (for more on this topic, see see Clemens Szyperskiandapos;s Component Software book, chapters 5 and 6 -- http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/Books/component-software.htm) The analogy holds for formal ontologies as well. Here, andquot;formal ontologyandquot; refers to an ontology that has rigorous formalization of some kind suitable for a reasoning process to make inferences based on the ontologyandapos;s axioms, properties and rules. Well-known examples of formal ontologies include: SUMO, PSL, DOLCE. The OntoClean methodology is an excellent case explaining the pitfalls and limitations of subsumption for organizing extensible or modular ontologies. This has led to the notion of andquot;meta-ontologyandquot;, initially used as an ontology where the (meta) ontology provides a taxonomy of concepts and properties used for capturing the meaning of things in the application-specific ontology using annotations expressed in terms of the meta-ontology. This idea has been documented in the semantic web best practices group http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/, e.g., with the andquot;classes-as-valuesandquot; pattern http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-classes-as-values/ commonly used for annotation purposes. Dr. Nicolas Rouquete from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology will be moderating our upcoming inaugural technical discussion session. The topic was on andquot;Ontologies and Meta-Ontologies: practical considerationsandquot;. * Discussion topic Ontologies and Meta-Ontologies: practical considerations * Moderator Dr. Nicolas Rouquette - NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologDiscussion/MetaOntologies_And_Ontologies * Background Using the analogy associating an ontology as an analog to the concept of a reusable software library with its API, then we can look towards modern approaches of reusable software development practices as an inspiration for modular ontology development. The naive approach for modular, object-oriented software development relies heavily on subclassing as the mechanism to decouple a reusable module (i.e., the superclass) with a specific usage of that module in a given application context (i.e., the subclass that derives from the moduleandapos;s superclass). There is a growing body of evidence that this approach is inherently brittle in software engineering. (for more on this topic, see see Clemens Szyperskiandapos;s Component Software book, chapters 5 and 6 -- http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/Books/component-software.htm) The analogy holds for formal ontologies as well. Here, andquot;formal ontologyandquot; refers to an ontology that has rigorous formalization of some kind suitable for a reasoning process to make inferences based on the ontologyandapos;s axioms, properties and rules. Well-known examples of formal ontologies include: SUMO, PSL, DOLCE. The OntoClean methodology is an excellent case explaining the pitfalls and limitations of subsumption for organizing extensible or modular ontologies. This has led to the notion of andquot;meta-ontologyandquot;, initially used as an ontology where the (meta) ontology provides a taxonomy of concepts and properties used for capturing the meaning of things in the application-specific ontology using annotations expressed in terms of the meta-ontology. This idea has been documented in the semantic web best practices group http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/, e.g., with the andquot;classes-as-valuesandquot; pattern http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-classes-as-values/ commonly used for annotation purposes. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/Ontolog-Discussion/Ontologies-and-MetaOntologies_NicolasRouquette_Recording-1514592-878155_20050224.mp3 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:26:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:51:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Duane Nickull * Agenda Mr. Duane Nickull will be giving a talk entitled: "Sky Captain and the Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model of Tomorrow" * Date Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_02_17 * Abstract This presentation is divided into two distinct parts, the latter building of the first. Session one is designed to promote a discussion around what Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) really is. Many people are talking about SOA and most define it by relating it to a concrete implementation such as web services. The session justifies a new approach chartered by the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee to define SOA abstract of any specific implementation. If SOA is architecture, as the name implies, it must be definable as architecture and distinct from other architectural models. A look at some of the basic concepts and common elements of all SOAandapos;s and a preliminary attempt to distill out those elements into a SOA reference model will likely be a stimulating topic. Ontologistandapos;s point of view will be appreciated. The second topic addresses the world of tomorrow. There is a lot of talk about what SOA can enable and what ontological work may enable. The second session invokes thoughts of a world where both concepts are ubiquitous and looks at what is possible by adding in other concepts such as Event - Causality programming, the Blackboard AI pattern over a distributed SOA infrastructure and how mechanical intelligence could be bestowed upon applications that someday may acquire true cognitive capabilities. Mr. Duane Nickull from Adobe Systems gave a talk entitled: "Sky Captain and the Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model of Tomorrow." * Agenda Mr. Duane Nickull will be giving a talk entitled: "Sky Captain and the Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model of Tomorrow" * Date Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_02_17 * Abstract This presentation is divided into two distinct parts, the latter building of the first. Session one is designed to promote a discussion around what Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) really is. Many people are talking about SOA and most define it by relating it to a concrete implementation such as web services. The session justifies a new approach chartered by the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee to define SOA abstract of any specific implementation. If SOA is architecture, as the name implies, it must be definable as architecture and distinct from other architectural models. A look at some of the basic concepts and common elements of all SOAandapos;s and a preliminary attempt to distill out those elements into a SOA reference model will likely be a stimulating topic. Ontologistandapos;s point of view will be appreciated. The second topic addresses the world of tomorrow. There is a lot of talk about what SOA can enable and what ontological work may enable. The second session invokes thoughts of a world where both concepts are ubiquitous and looks at what is possible by adding in other concepts such as Event - Causality programming, the Blackboard AI pattern over a distributed SOA infrastructure and how mechanical intelligence could be bestowed upon applications that someday may acquire true cognitive capabilities. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/DuaneNickull_20050217/SCandSOA-RMofTomorrow_DuaneNickull_ConferenceRecording-1497544-448414_20050127.mp3 Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:32:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:46:00 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Mr. Conrad Bock * Agenda Mr. Conrad Bock will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;PSL and Flow Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_01_27 * Abstract This presentation compares the way processes are described in the Process Specification Language (PSL) versus flow models, which are the most common technique in industry. It focuses on the fundamental differences in approach, and gives a short introduction to the way PSL works, with the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. It describes an application of PSL that is not possible in flow models: behavior classification. It illustrates that PSL makes some process descriptions simpler by allowing the designer to represent as little as necessary to reflect their intent. It also highlights the way ambiguity is easily mistaken for abstraction. Mr. Conrad Bock from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology gave a virtual presentation on andquot;PSL and Flow Models.andquot; * Agenda Mr. Conrad Bock will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;PSL and Flow Modelsandquot; * Date Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_01_27 * Abstract This presentation compares the way processes are described in the Process Specification Language (PSL) versus flow models, which are the most common technique in industry. It focuses on the fundamental differences in approach, and gives a short introduction to the way PSL works, with the advantages and disadvantages of each technique. It describes an application of PSL that is not possible in flow models: behavior classification. It illustrates that PSL makes some process descriptions simpler by allowing the designer to represent as little as necessary to reflect their intent. It also highlights the way ambiguity is easily mistaken for abstraction. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/ConradBock_20050127/PSL-n-Flow-Models_ConradBock_ConferenceRecording-1440405-717326_20050127.mp3 Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:36:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:27:24 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing Professor Mark A. Musen * Agenda Professor Mark A. Musen will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Building ontologies from the ground upandquot; * Date Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_09 * Abstract Building electronic ontologies no longer is exclusively the province of philosophers or even that of computer scientists. Professionals of all kinds increasingly recognize the importance of creating explicit, formal models of the activities and objects with which they deal in their work and of the data that drive their decision making. In business, science, and government, there are burgeoning grassroots efforts to codify human knowledge fur purposes of document retrieval, data analysis, and decision support. These pragmatic efforts are enormously important to the professional communities from which they derive. They do not always adhere to standard conventions for domain modeling or knowledge representation, however. In this talk, I will discuss certain grass-roots efforts to build ontologies and the effects that these efforts have had on their professional communities. There are obvious growing pains as workers most concerned about content knowledge learn to formalize that knowledge in a way that can facilitate automated information management and decision making. Professional societies, government agencies, and educational institutions can be enormously beneficial in providing resources to bolster these activities and to ensure that resulting ontologies are sound and maximally reusable. The advent of andquot;the information societyandquot; requires the codification and dissemination of human knowledge in electronic form. The people who work closest to that knowledge are already taking major strides to build the necessary ontologies and knowledge resources. Professor Mark Musen head of the Protege Project and of the Stanford Medical Informatics department gave the talk entitled: andquot;Building ontologies from the ground up: When users set out to model their professional activityandquot; * Agenda Professor Mark A. Musen will be giving a talk entitled: andquot;Building ontologies from the ground upandquot; * Date Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 * ONTOLOG forum Wiki page details http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_09 * Abstract Building electronic ontologies no longer is exclusively the province of philosophers or even that of computer scientists. Professionals of all kinds increasingly recognize the importance of creating explicit, formal models of the activities and objects with which they deal in their work and of the data that drive their decision making. In business, science, and government, there are burgeoning grassroots efforts to codify human knowledge fur purposes of document retrieval, data analysis, and decision support. These pragmatic efforts are enormously important to the professional communities from which they derive. They do not always adhere to standard conventions for domain modeling or knowledge representation, however. In this talk, I will discuss certain grass-roots efforts to build ontologies and the effects that these efforts have had on their professional communities. There are obvious growing pains as workers most concerned about content knowledge learn to formalize that knowledge in a way that can facilitate automated information management and decision making. Professional societies, government agencies, and educational institutions can be enormously beneficial in providing resources to bolster these activities and to ensure that resulting ontologies are sound and maximally reusable. The advent of andquot;the information societyandquot; requires the codification and dissemination of human knowledge in electronic form. The people who work closest to that knowledge are already taking major strides to build the necessary ontologies and knowledge resources. http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/MarkMusen_20041209/MarkMusen-Ontolog_ConferenceRecording-1330436-958155_20041209.mp3 Thu, 09 Dec 2004 11:38:00 -0800 Information Technology no 01:12:42 Ontology, Taxonomy, Description Logics, Inferencing