This is great! Thank you very much, Alan. (01)
I'll let you know once your session page is up. We'll then start
announcing your invited talk to Ontolog and other collegial
communities. (02)
I'll look forward to the session. (03)
Best regards. =ppy
-- (04)
On 8/17/06, Alan Rector <rector@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter
>
> Title: Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it
> mean to QA an ontology?
>
> Abstract: Terminologies and 'Ontologies' serve several disparate
> purposes:
>
> * Providing a controlled vocabulary and/or standard set of identifiers
> * Providing a means of browsing and finding appropriate vocabulary or
> identifiers
> * Providing the linguistic terms - synonyms, translations, etc - to
> go with the controlled vocabualry
> * Cross mapping and translation between different systems
> * Providing logical criteria which can be used for inference and
> query expansion.
> * Providing additional 'universal' or intrinsic information about the
> entities involved
> * Serving as an index for other background knoweldge and resources
>
> Most current biomedical ontologies serve primarily the first three
> functions, with varying efforts towards formal logical criteria.
> However, there are aspirations, and sometimes claims, for more
> rigorous functions, and many standardisation efforts pre-suppose more
> a more formal structure.
>
> Each of these functions implies criteria for quality assurance. For
> example,for managing controlled vocabularies, process issues such as
> version control and coverage are most criticall. Browsing raises
> issues of human computer interaction, and language raises its own
> issues. The last three all require a degree of logical coherence and
> rigour.
>
> In addition to many biomedical ontologies, scaling critical.
> Biomedical ontologies are large and potentially combinatorially
> explosive. For some applications, small enumerated terminologies are
> sufficient. For others, indefinitely large compositional ontologies
> that cannot, in principle, be pre-enumerated are required.
>
> Finally almost all ontologies are based on many poorly articulated
> assumptions. Any quality assurance methodology must take account
> both of what can be understood independent of consultation with the
> originatolrs and what conclusions can be reached after consultation
> with the originators.
>
> Overall we propose an approach to quality along two dimensions -
> process and content - and a two stage process - the first independent
> of consultation with the originating authority, the second in
> consultation with the originating authority.
>
>
>
>
> On 10 Aug 2006, at 07:07, Peter P. Yim wrote:
>
> > Dear Professor Rector,
> >
> >
> > Further to our recent discussion, I would like to thank you, on
> > behalf of the community, for accepting our invitation to speak at
> > the Ontolog-Forum on Thursday, 14th September, 2006. As you may
> > already be aware, the Ontolog community engages in the learning,
> > discourse and development of ontologies, and is trying to advance
> > the adoption and application of ontological engineering approaches
> > and semantic technologies (see our charter at: http://
> > ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB ). Your giving
> > us a talk in "Terminologies and Ontologies," and sharing your
> > experience/insight on that topic would definitely be of great
> > interest to the community. I am writing here, to provide further
> > details and some administrivia on the event.
> >
> > This session will be a 1.5 to 2 hour virtual event, scheduled to
> > start at 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT.
> > Depending on the number of participants, the session will probably
> > start with about 10~15 minutes for self-introductions by
> > participants and for getting everyone settled in. We will then
> > formally introduce you. Your virtual presentation (of approximately
> > 45~60 minutes) will then follow. After which, there will be an open
> > discussion for about 30 minutes. The session will be held over a
> > phone conference, augmented by online presentation material.
> >
> > I need from you (a month before the talk, i.e. on/before 14-Aug-2006):
> >
> > (a) the title for your talk (already received),
> >
> > (b) an abstract on your talk,
> >
> > (c) a recent picture of yours, and
> >
> > (d) a short biographic sketch of yourself (already received).
> >
> > Upon receipt of the above, I will build out the session wiki page
> > and announce the event, so that people could mark their calendars
> > and plan to attend.
> >
> > Closer to the time (say, a week before your talk, although this is
> > not a hard deadline), please send me:
> >
> > (e) your presentation material* (in pdf, powerpoint, sxi, html,
> > png, jpg or some common electronic format) so that I can post it
> > online for access during the session.
> >
> > During the talk, you will need to prompt the audience to advance
> > the slides (and call out the slide number, every time you change
> > slides). I will be in control of a shared-screen server (a VNC
> > server) and will advance the slides for you. If you need to run
> > another applications (say, a web browser or some demo application)
> > and share the screen, please provide me with more details because
> > we may need some prior coordination to make it happen. The display
> > screen from the VNC server will be shared by most of the virtual
> > attendees during the event (although participants who are behind
> > tight corporate firewalls may have to download your slides and run
> > them on their own desktop.)
> >
> > You are requested to take a look at the hints we have for sessions
> > like this at:
> > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?VirtualSpeakerSessionTips
> >
> > For your reference, please take a look at the wiki session pages of
> > similar recent presentations, which you can access under http://
> > ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (for example,
> > Dr. Pat Cassidy's recent session at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-
> > bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13). They should provide some
> > clues as to the format of our monthly invited speaker events.
> > However, do feel free to conduct your presentation any way you feel
> > like (let me know, though, if you expect it to be quite different,
> > so that I can work on providing the support you need.) After the
> > wiki page for your session has been created, you are encouraged to
> > post additional relevant resources (papers, links, references, ...
> > etc.) to support your presentation.
> >
> > Additionally, we will be recording our presentation sessions and
> > make the archived audio file available online, along with the
> > presentation material. May I, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum,
> > request your permission to do so. Please refer to our IPR policy
> > at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32 that
> > will be applicable. I have also subscribe you to the [ontolog-
> > forum] mailing list so that you will be kept abreast of the
> > exchanges prior to, and following your presentation. I will assume
> > that these are acceptable to you unless I hear from you otherwise.
> >
> > Once again, thank you very much for agreeing to speak, and to
> > having a dialog with the rest of the Ontolog community. I shall
> > look forward to the event, and to to your continued contribution to
> > Ontolog in the future. Feel free to contact the undersigned if
> > there is any question. Please acknowledge this message now (so that
> > I can be sure it did get delivered properly.)
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > =PPY
> >
> > Peter P. Yim
> > [ontolog-forum], co-convener
> > http://ontolog.cim3.net
> > Phone: +1 (650) 578-9998
> >
> >
> > P.S. *Note that: in preparing your powerpoint (or other
> > presentation material), please (a) make sure you number the slides,
> > and (b) avoid using any animation or transitions, as they do not
> > work very well over the real-time shared-screen service which we
> > employ to allow the audience to be in sync with you on your slide
> > presentation. =ppy
> > --
>
> -----------------------
> Alan Rector
> Professor of Medical Informatics
> School of Computer Science
> University of Manchester
> Manchester M13 9PL, UK
> TEL +44 (0) 161 275 6149/6188
> FAX +44 (0) 161 275 6204
> www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig
> www.clinical-esciences.org
> www.co-ode.org
>
>
>
_________________________________________________________________
To Post: mailto:ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Portal: http://ontolog.cim3.net/ (05)
|