I will be presenting an introduction to the SKIF-Protege
project that I am working on at the regular conference call
on Thursday March 11 1:30 PM EST. My plan for the presentation
is summarized below, and on the Wiki site: (01)
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_03_11 (02)
(The previous notice I sent erroneously referred to a
different conference call) (03)
The talk on March 11 will focus on how concepts represented in SKIF, as
are
SUMO and MILO, can be viewed in a Protege viewer, and on how I would suggest
representing some of the basic business concepts in these two formats, SKIF and
Protege. (04)
The Protege-KIF project has two aspects: (1) to develop a Protege plug-in that
will permit import of SKIF files into the Protege browser; and (2) to create
concepts representing the Core Concepts and other business entities in SKIF, by
extension from the SUMO upper ontology, and then to import the SUMO
together with its business-entity extensions into the Protege environment to
enhance ease of understanding of the concepts and their relations to each other. (05)
Since the plugin development (in JAVA) is a one-person task, I will not
discuss the programming aspects, but will focus on how concepts in KIF can be
represented in Protege. (06)
This session will proceed as a teleconference, with the visual
illustrations being available through the tight VNC connection provide by Peter
Kim at: (07)
http://vnc2.cim3.net:5800/ (sign in as 'ontolog' to view the
presentation.) (08)
I plan to run a Protege version of SMINK012, the latest version of the ontology
that includes the concepts from SUMO and MILO plus those suggested by Adam
Pease
and those I added to represent business entities. In the limited time
available,
I will show how I suggest we represent a few of the core components. The basic
philosophy of this representation is, that we are representing documents and
text fields within documents, and I am suggesting that we represent them as
abstract texts, rather than physical documents, so that we can consider only
one
version of each document or field, and avoid the complications of multiple
possible physical representations (paper, computer file, screen visualization).
The main point of including these text elements in an ontology is to be able to
create links from the text elements to those real-world objects to which the
texts refer. The manner of creating such links will be discussed. (09)
Although we will be able to browse the data already imported into Protege
via the TightVNC link, unfortunately there is some problem reading files from
the Protege browser in that environment, and I will not be able to demonstrate
importing data from a file into the browser. Peter and I are discussing how to
overcome this problem, but it will not be resolved by Thursday. (010)
But the files "smink012.zip" and "skif_tab.jar" are available from my site: (011)
ftp://micra.com/ontolog/ (012)
If you wish to try these locally, you may be able to test the import of new
data
into the existing ontology. (013)
I will appreciate any comments on the manner in which I have chosen to
represent these business concepts, especially since my own interpretation of
the
short descriptions of the meanings may very well miss the intended meanings.
This should be a good opportunity to discuss concrete substantive issues in the
representation of business concepts, and I hope you all will be able to attend.
These representations are only suggestions, and I expect that some or perhaps
most of them will change as a result of comments from people knowledgeable in
the domain business transactions, or from suggestions about ways to represent
and visualize such concepts. (014)
Pat (015)
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735 Belvidere Ave. || (908) 668-5252 (if no answer above)
Plainfield, NJ 07062-2054 (017)
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