Thanks, Nicolas. (01)
ERRATA: The line (7th from the top of the Announcement) about the
date of the event should read: (02)
*When: Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005 * (03)
-ppy
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Nicolas F Rouquette wrote Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:57:18 -0800:
> * ANNOUNCEMENT *
>
> We are pleased to invite you to participate to a technical discussion
> during our upcoming regular conference call session.
>
> Topic: Ontologies & Meta-ontologies: practical considerations
> When: Thursday,, 2005
> Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST
> (World Time:
>
>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=24&year=2005&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
>
>
>
> Session Duration: ~ 2 Hours
> Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
> Participant Access Code: "686564#" Discussion coordinator: Nicolas
> Rouquette (05)
> Abstract:
>
> 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 module'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 Szyperski's Component Software book, chapters 5 & 6 --
> http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/Books/component-software.htm
> <http://research.microsoft.com/%7Ecszypers/Books/component-software.htm>)
> The analogy holds for formal ontologies as well. Here, "formal ontology"
> refers to an ontology that has rigorous formalization of some kind
> suitable for a reasoning process to make inferences based on the
> ontology's axioms, properties and rules. Well-known examples of formal
> ontologies include: SUMO, PSL, DOLCE. The OntoClean
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?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 "meta-ontology", 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
> "classes-as-values" pattern http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-classes-as-values/
> commonly used for annotation purposes. (06)
> Topics:
>
> The discussion topics are focused on the practical aspects of ontology
> development, maintenance and evolution
> within considerations of community-based collaborations that depend
> heavily on standards of some kind (e.g., OWL, DIG),
> published methodologies and peer-accessible tools (e.g., open source)
> and ontologies without impractical intellectual property restrictions.
>
> Within this scope, the topics of the technical discussion will address
> practical considerations
> about the relationship of ontologies & meta-ontologies in the sense of
> an "upper" ontology
> used to make statements about a "lower" ontology in logic (e.g.,
> OWL-Lite, OWL-DL or OWL-Full). (07)
> These considerations include, but are not limited to:
>
> - Including annotations as part of ontological reasoning
> - Separating an ontology from independent annotations of that ontology
> - Using meta-ontologies for describing the refinement relationship of
> one ontology as a specialization or a view of another ontology
> - Guidelines for choosing and using different kinds of "meta-ontologies"
> such as universals (e.g., OntoClean) vs. particulars (e.g., DOLCE)
> - Using "formal" ontologies (e.g., OntoClean, DOLCE, SUMO) without a
> degree in philosophy
> - other topics suggested by the discussion participants (08)
> You are encouraged to add your comments, suggestions, questions,
> problems, solution and other relevant information on the discussion page:
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologDiscussion/MetaOntologies_And_Ontologies
> (09)
> * About the coordinator: *
>
> Nicolas Rouquette, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Insitute of
> Technology.
> See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NicolasRouquette (010)
> Please refer to details on the session wiki page at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_02_24 (011)
> Please point your browser to this wiki page during the session.
> Shared-screen support (VNC session) will also be available and be
> started 5 minutes before the call.
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2005-02/msg00007.html#nid015> (012)
> Looking forward to having you at the session.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Nicolas.
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