ppy/HC-05_High-Level-Concept-Model-googledoc_chat-transcript_20130330a.txt Chat accompanying the High Level Concept Model diagram development [EDT] David Whitten 11:44 AM Yesterday An Ontology specification is an expression of a requirement. David Whitten 12:27 PM Yesterday A specification, a characteristic and a requirement can be hierarchically aranged within themselves Mike Dean 11:45 AM Yesterday Analogous to software engineering specification (vs. requirements) Amanda Vizedom 12:14 PM Yesterday A model of things and relationships in some portion of world. Mike Dean 11:42 AM Yesterday Might leverage Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) for some characteristics David Whitten 11:45 AM Yesterday Marked as resolved Ali H 11:45 AM Yesterday Re-opened Peter Yim 11:47 AM Yesterday +1 ... ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OMV David Whitten 12:28 PM Yesterday A specification, a characteristic and a requirement can be hierarchically aranged within themselves Mike Dean 11:51 AM Yesterday May be intrinsic or extrinsic Mike Dean 1:27 PM Yesterday May apply to an ontology (e.g. owner) or a specific representation (e.g. ontology language or version number). Amanda Vizedom 11:43 AM Yesterday Measurements that may be taken of some ontology and may indicate, to some approximation , whether some evaluation criteria have been met. David Whitten 12:09 PM Yesterday Measurements only make sense if you have a metric (yard stick) which distinguishes the various values. David Whitten 12:26 PM Yesterday Metrics can be deployed, which provide visibility into ontology characteristics Amanda Vizedom 11:52 AM Yesterday Criteria by which the quality & suitability of an ontology will be judged. Derived from Ontology requirements. David Whitten 12:35 PM Yesterday the purpose and intended use of an ontology may select a subset of evaluation criteria Amanda Vizedom 11:51 AM Yesterday Events in which an ontology, or some part thereof, is evaluated with respect to some evaluation criteria (and evaluation outputs are generated) David Whitten 12:23 PM Yesterday Each evaluation event/activity has an accompanying method. David Whitten 12:23 PM Yesterday When an Evaluation is complete, what artifacts and associations are produced Mike Dean 12:45 PM Yesterday May be automated, semi-automated, or manual. Amanda Vizedom 12:22 PM Yesterday An ontology represented in a machine-readable language with a formal semantics. Ali H 12:00 PM Yesterday How is the ontololgy being developed? What methodologies are used? Bob Smith 11:56 AM Yesterday A set of activities which, in appropriate sequence, applies methods with criteria to achieve Sponsor/Funder Requirements-Specifications, including Cost and Performance David Whitten 12:10 PM Yesterday The evaluation process may be used by an Adopter rather than a Sponsor or Initial Funder. Bob Smith 12:50 PM Yesterday Right - which leads into the big notion of adaptation within some target markets. Adoption of sound and well evaluated ontologies by markets is good; Adaptation to badly formed and defective technologies (that are assumed "Validated") is scary. In Architecture-Engineering-Construction Owner-Operator world, a Building Information Modeling process is being developed to transform this big sector. Big battles underway around the nature of ontologies... Show more Bob Smith 12:14 PM Yesterday An organization has explicit needs to justify the risks and rewards of funding an Ontology Process and managing the explicit evaluation process and results. This is largely idealistic. York Sure and others have developed METHODS for Software Engineering and Agile like methods for ontology development Show more Mike Dean 12:46 PM Yesterday This is an ontology characteristic. Mike Dean 12:46 PM Yesterday This is an ontology characteristic. Amanda Vizedom 12:27 PM Yesterday Requirements that apply to the internal, technical and content characteristics of an ontology. The corresponding evaluation criteria can be evaluated independently of use context. Amanda Vizedom 12:32 PM Yesterday Requirements that apply to an ontology but are independent of the technical and content characteristics of the ontology itself. Corresponding evaluation criteria can be evaluated without knowledge of the ontology details or technology. Amanda Vizedom 12:34 PM Yesterday (aka contextual, or mixed intrinsic/extrinsic) Requirements that apply to an ontology and that concern how the internal technical and content characteristics of the ontology relate to some feature(s) of the context in which that ontology is to be used. The corresponding evaluation criteria can only be evaluated within the context of some such use. Show more Ali H 11:52 AM Yesterday Among other things, ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_ValueMetrics_Synthesis David Whitten 12:27 PM Yesterday A specification, a characteristic and a requirement can be hierarchically aranged within themselves Amanda Vizedom 12:01 PM Yesterday Conditions or Criteria which must be met by an ontology in order for it to be suitable for use for a particular purpose. Mike Dean 11:52 AM Yesterday Software, system, model, etc. that uses an ontology for a specific purpose. Mike Dean 11:48 AM Yesterday Software, methodology, etc. used to measure characteristics, metrics, etc. Typically supports 1 or more ontology languages. David Whitten 12:07 PM Yesterday Mindset when evaluating an ontology is also a tool. Ali H 11:53 AM Yesterday http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_ApplicationCases_Synthesis and http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2011_ApplicationFramework_Synthesis Amanda Vizedom 12:12 PM Yesterday An application and use of an ontology. Ontology usage has many dimensions, including users, domain, systems contexts, expected functionality, etc., and is a major source of ontology requirements Mike Dean 1:31 PM Yesterday This seems like a subclass of evaluation criteria. David Whitten 12:02 PM Yesterday A LifeCycle is an iterative list of stages in a process. David Whitten 12:24 PM Yesterday with a set of phases or stages, each of which may have particular evaluation criteria and characteristics which may apply. Amanda Vizedom 12:09 PM Yesterday A type of Lifecycle. Similar to Software Lifecycle, this is a sequence of stages, including requirements identification, development, evaluation, deployment, maintenance and repair that may occur iteratively during the time between the time the ontology is conceived of and when it is no longer in any active or used stage. Show more Mike Dean 1:28 PM Yesterday Includes stages. Amanda Vizedom 12:38 PM Yesterday Evaluation methods that cannot be performed by machine all or in significant portion, but require human judgement. Amanda Vizedom 12:46 PM Yesterday A stage such as requirements specification, development, deployment, etc., that is part of an ontology lifecycle. That current stage of an ontology influences the evaluation criteria that can and should be evaluated, and the methods that can and should be used on that ontology. Amanda Vizedom 12:39 PM Yesterday Evaluation methods that can be performed by machine. Ali H 12:03 PM Yesterday What is left inside/outside of the ontology? Where is the ontology situated? David Whitten 12:12 PM Yesterday Cycorp's Dimensions of Context Space is relevant here. Amanda Vizedom 12:43 PM Yesterday Evaluation Methods that can be performed partially by machine, and partially require human judgement. David Whitten 12:41 PM Yesterday Instance population according to OntoQA is used to develop metrics Ali H 12:05 PM Yesterday The person(s) and team(s) which are responsible for creating and/or deploying. testing, auditing the ontologies Mike Dean 12:14 PM Yesterday Should probably reuse some other ontology/vocabulary here, e.g FOAF, and generalize to Agent. David Whitten 12:46 PM Yesterday Domain Intrinsic Evaluation is independent of the representation, and is dependent on the reality that is being modeled. Mike Dean 12:07 PM Yesterday Language used to represent an ontology, e.g. OWL, Common Logic, etc. An ontology characteristic. David Whitten 12:11 PM Yesterday The Ontology Language is a characteristic of a expression of an ontology, not necessarily of the ontology itself Amanda Vizedom 1:08 PM Yesterday A human-centric, human-understandable model of the things and relationships in a portion of world, expressed independently of technological implementation or machine use considerations. May be textual, graphical, or captured in any other human-friendly way David Whitten 12:43 PM Yesterday The logical model is subject to the intrinsic structural evaluation criteria Amanda Vizedom 1:18 PM Yesterday A representation of an ontology in a particular, logic-based ontology language, such as OWL 2, Common Logic, etc. Mike Dean 1:21 PM Yesterday Formal representation of the ontology using an ontology language. Mike Dean 11:59 AM Yesterday OWL, Common Logic, etc. representation of an ontology David Whitten 12:42 PM Yesterday The physical model is beyond the scope of the Ontology Evaluation process Mike Dean 1:24 PM Yesterday Tools operate on the physical model (serialization). Mike Dean 1:20 PM Yesterday This should instead be serialized representation of the logical model, e.g. RDF/XML, CLIF. Amanda Vizedom 1:27 PM Yesterday A serialized representation of an Ontology Logical Model (e.g., in RDF-XML) David Whitten 12:16 PM Yesterday The system where a ontology contextually is situated