Thank you, Nancy. (01)
All, (02)
I'm moving Nancy's input over to this thread (see below).
Great input, Nancy! My personal take is as follows: (03)
> [NF] A number of organizations have decided using KM, data mining,
> knowledge capture for decision support is a good idea. Can we pitch the
> OKMDS initiative as a "further enhancement" of those efforts? Perhaps
> easier to push a moving car along if it's already in motion. (04)
[ppy] I totally agree. Maybe to paraphrase that thought is to include
into the charter, somewhere, among others, that we are pursuing the
answer to the question as to: "How can we leverage ontologies to help
improve knowledge management, and in so doing, allow organizations to
making better decisions?" (05)
> [NF] With two big initiatives, Second Life and Ontologies to enhance decision
> support, I wonder if we can clearly explain both? Or should we concentrate
> on one? Or one at a time? Is our audience current practitioners so there
> is less of a learning curve? (06)
[ppy] Steve did bring up, during our first organizing committee
meeting, that serious use of "virtual worlds" is possibly a bit early
now, which I tend to agree. That said, I'm sure (myself included) that
enough people in our communities would enjoy "getting their feet wet"
given this opportunity. (07)
I see the effort to featuring our mini-series events in both "real
world" (augmented conference calls, archived mailing lists, wiki
pages, podcast, etc.) and "virtual world" (SecondLife) setting as
being the two presentation (and knowledge capture) vehicles that we
had decided to employ. The focus of the initiative should still be
*Ontology* (ontologies, ontological engineering, etc.) and "Ontology
in Knowledge Management and Decision Support." (08)
That's my personal view on the matter. Maybe we haven't had enough of
a chance to discuss this thoroughly enough even among the organizing
committee members. If anyone feels that we are not fully aligned,
let's discuss this further here, and update our charter (objectives
paragraph) so that it becomes clearer to both ourselves and to the
communities we are taking this initiative to. (09)
Thanks and regards. =ppy
-- (010)
//
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Faget, Nancy <nfaget@xxxxxxx>
Date: Oct 17, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: [okmds-org] FW: Federal Consoritum for Second Life Meeting
To: okmds-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (011)
Is there a segment on this program from NASA mentioning the okmds initiative? (012)
And for the charter, I had some thoughts. (013)
* A number of organizations have decided using KM, data mining,
knowledge capture for decision support is a good idea. Can we pitch
the OKMDS initiative as a "further enhancement" of those efforts?
Perhaps easier to push a moving car along if it's already in motion. (014)
* With two big initiatives, Second Life and Ontologies to enhance
decision support, I wonder if we can clearly explain both? Or should
we concentrate on one? Or one at a time? Is our audience current
practitioners so there is less of a learning curve?
Nancy (015)
Nancy G. Faget
GPO Library Services & Content Management
Library Planning & Development
Sr. Planning and Development Specialist
nfaget@xxxxxxx
202-512-2290 phone
202-512-2300 fax (016)
Attached:
------ along with forwarded message of <RobinsonP@xxxxxxx> on ----------
------ information on the Federal Consortium for Second Life conference ----
------ November 16th, 2007 at the National Defense University ----------------
// (017)
On 10/10/07, Jeanne Holm <jeanne.holm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wow, thanks Susan and all for helping to move this forward.
>
> Some comments are embedded. Excellent job!
>
> --Jeanne (018)
> >DRAFT
> >
> > Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKDMS): Making
> >Space
> >or
> > Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKDMS): Making
> >Better Decisions
> >or
> > Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKDMS): Making
> >Space for Discernment
>
> My favorite is "Making Better Decisions"
>
> > This six month virtual mini-series will open up dialogue and discovery at
> > the promising intersection of Ontology and Knowledge Development and the
> >role of both in decision support.
> >
> > The NASA Mission of "Space Administration"
>
> "Space Exploration" might be better to avoid over use of the other
> space (or did I miss a pun somewhere?).
>
> >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. Furthermore, the knowledge space must be
> >integrated with institutional
> >processes for policy making and development so that their effect on
> >decisions is fundamental rather than incidental.
> >
> > As the famed architect, Louis Kahn noted, "Architecture is the thoughtful
> >making of space."
>
> I like the idea of knowledge space for many reasons, including the
> idea that the virtual or physical or information space helps to form
> the conversation that arises within it.
>
> >
> > In this series, we'll explore how Enterprise Architecture (using Ontology
> >and Knowledge Management) is the thoughtful making of space...a 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 institutions can more easily
> > distill knowledge from complexity and make policies and decisions using
> >knowledge based processes.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Draft Questions:
> > 1.How can we explore the intersection of Ontology and Knowledge
> >Management and Decision Support to define promising collaborations among
> >them?
> > 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)? Conversely, how can we structure decision making
> >processes to take maximum
> >advantage of knowledge?
> > 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 and better decision and policy making?
> > 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
> >
> >
> >_________________________________________________________________
> >Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/okmds-org/
> >Configure: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/okmds-org/
> >Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/
> >Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyKMandDecisionSupport
> >To Post: mailto:okmds-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> --
> **************************************************************
> Jeanne Holm
> Chief Knowledge Architect
> NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Mail Stop 602-109
> Pasadena, CA 91109
> (818) 354-8282
>
> See what's happening with NASA's Knowledge
> Management Team! http://km.nasa.gov
> *************************************************************
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/okmds-org/
> Configure: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/okmds-org/
> Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/
> Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyKMandDecisionSupport
> To Post: mailto:okmds-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (019)
_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/okmds-org/
Configure: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/okmds-org/
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OKMDS/
Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyKMandDecisionSupport
To Post: mailto:okmds-org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (020)
|