Profile Report Welcome to the [ontolog] forum member survey. Original source: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2002-10/msg00000.html#nid06 This Survey at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/ontolog0.html . Please provide us with the following information so that we can better serve and support this community of practice: Question 1Background Provide a brief description of your background "I have emerged from a diverse field of technical experience, training, and educational background. I have formal education in fine arts, nuclear technology and computer information systems. I spent 20 years in the nuclear industry where I worked primarily with all things related to special nuclear materials (plutonium, transuranics, uraniums) from nuclear extractions and processing to research and development of nuclear assay methods and technology development. I particapted for a short time in the ASTM Committee C-26.10, the formal committee for developing Non-Destructive Assay procedures and guides used throughout the nuclear industry for special nuclear materials. These technologes are computer-based, quite sophisticated, and dissparate (stand-a-lone). They were designed for the safe-guarding of special nuclear materials for the nations nuclear defense programs. They were not designed for measuring unknown quantities of packaged transuranic wastes. Research of technologies and methods for assaying the cold war transuranic wastes to find both cost effective and acurate methodologies for nondestructive assay methods (do not open the package, measure only the physical characteristics to determine accurately the amount of nuclear materials contained) sparked my passion (there was a great need as well) for computer system integrations (new ways of combing physial data, algorithms) and interoperatability (data sharing, formats, QA). Succesful integration not only meant new system development, it meant better answers at a cheaper price and with less of a cost factor for environmental restoration. This passion lead to SMGL interests (Kurt Conrad is responsible for this) and then continuing with XML technologies. I am also qualified for auditing nuclear programs. These audits must comply with nuclear quality assurance regulations as codified in the CFRs and following ANSI NQA-1 standards as applied to special nuclear and other transuranic nuclear material programs. The rigidity of this nuclear 18-point based QA program is unparalleled except for space programs. To my dismay, Clinton killed off all research dollars for these programs and I lost my work. I have since reinvented myself and I am now building an Internet based corporation for the marine industry. I love yachts, both power and sail, all things related to water. The Northwest Passage to Alaska is calling me to explore. This passage is planned for 2005 or 2006 in our bluewater sailboat. I decided to combine all my interests into one place and build an ontology driven Internet portal fo rthe marine industry using open source technologies. Python is the programming language of choice, LINUX the OS, Zope is the portal application and server platform. My SQL is one of the DBs chosen. Redland for RDF is being reviewed. Zope offers potentially an ability to APPLY an ontology through its current application design which provides a loading of a custom vocabulary (lexicon). This is not an easy programming feat but I happen to know a great python programmer. I am hoping to grasp what terms lexicon and logic have in common and whether this is a possibility. The other is a useful small db that is embedded into every Zope object. It is a meta data DB. Other possibilities for ontology implementations include Sailor Agent, a python program that loads multiple agents including KIF and RDFs. Whatever methods or applications are used or developed, the bottom line for me is I must write and apply the domain ontology for the portal to achieve my goals. In order to do this I must learn much more than I know now." Question 2BioLink If you have a bio/resume/cv available online, kindly provide us with a link to it. URL: (Not Answered) Question 3PersonalObjectives Describe the personal goals and objectives that are driving your participation in [ontolog] Goal/Objective-1: To learn methods and technologies for building ontologies for real time business applications. Goal/Objective-2: To participate and contribute to advance the technologies and knowledge of ontologies. Goal/Objective-3: To contribute towards the deployment of e-business and web services development. Question 4InterestArea List your areas of interest "Design processes for transcribing mental/physical relationships to a machine logic structure without getting lost in the process, documentation practices for developing ontologies, how to formalize to completed ontology design. Learning about language constructs and machine encoding processes, tools and preferred programming languages. , building a practical guide for constructing ontologies," Question 5DiscussionTopics List any ideas that you have for discussion topics DiscussionTopic-1: Practical development of ontologies DiscussionTopic-2: Ontology groups or types as applied to types of industry needs DiscussionTopic-3: Developing a lexicon based langauge/vocabulary from a domain specific ontology DiscussionTopic-4: Programming designs for ontologies DiscussionTopic-5: Applying ontologies to a servicve oriented architecture other than brokering semantics Question 6MemberCategory I am subscribing as an [X] 1. Active participant [ ] 2. Observer Question 7ContactInfo Please provide us your contact information Name: Cecelia Hickel Organization/Affiliation: Kiona Scientific Position/Role: Owner/CIO/CEO Daytime Tel: 509 588-2650 E-mail Address: cecelia.hickel@verizon.net Thank you!