[okmds-org] Next pass on our draft charter

[susan.turnbull@xxxxxxx]

Hi All -
Here's the next pass as promised.
Susan T.


DRAFT
Ontology in Knowledge Management
and Decision Support: Making Space

This six month virtual mini-series
will open up dialogue and discovery at the promising intersection of Ontology
and Knowledge Development.  The NASA Mission of “Space Administration”
applied in its most expansive form, serves as the inspiration for this
series.  The need to effectively administer “knowledge space” to
yield meaningful connections that are scalable and sustainable is a strategic
challenge of all institutions, whether that knowledge resides primarily
within, outside, or across an institution’s span of control.  

As the famed architect, Louis Kahn
noted, “Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.”

In this series, we’ll explore
how Enterprise Architecture (using Ontology and Knowledge Management) is
the thoughtful making of space…space with the tensile integrity needed
by disparate institutions to create conducive conditions for emergence
of the collective scientific and engineering knowledge needed for future
space... where all humanity can thrive.

We’ll explore how Ontology and
Knowledge Management, working in concert, “make space” to accommodate
difference at multiple levels and contexts.   In this emerging  space,
both individuals and institution can more easily distill knowledge from
complexity and make informed decisions.  In addition, we’ll explore
how to combine at least three scaffolding approaches for the integrated
and agile “build-out” of knowledge needed: community (structured bottom-up),
folksonomy (unstructured bottom-up) and ontology (structured top-down).
   

The virtual seminar and panel discussion
events will be offered concurrently in a real world “space” as augmented
conference calls and a virtual world “space”, Second Life.
NASA will provide orientation to
Second Life as the mini-series gets underway.   The announcement and
online discourse will be cross-posted to [ontolog-forum] <ontolog-forum-at-ontolog.cim3.net>
and [kmgov]<kmgov-at-list.jpl.nasa.gov>.Others will be added.  
 

Draft Questions:
1.How can we explore the intersection
of Ontology and Knowledge Management 
disciplines to define promising
collaborations between the two?
2. How do we help people working
with our organization o discover useful knowledge? 3. How can we structure
information for decision support (both known and serendipitious inquiry)?

4. What are the ontologies to prioritize
for scientific exchange? 
5. How does the use of semantic
technologies draw these fields closer and support better 
knowledge discovery?
6.How could “simulation-scripting”
exercises in virtual worlds accelerate the development and sustained use
of ontologies in the real world?  
7. How might these “simulation-scaffold”
ontologies, in turn, improve the pace and complexity of learning associated
with large-scale “modeling event” scenarios that are anticipated in virtual
world settings?
 


Susan B. Turnbull
Senior Program Advisor
USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions
GSA Office of Citizen Services and Communications
U.S. General Services Administration
p 202.501.6214
susan.turnbull@xxxxxxx
http://www.gsa.gov/collaborate
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