Dear Ontolog Members, (01)
Further to our earlier announcement, please be reminded that Professor
Mark Musen (from Stanford University) will be giving a talk entitled:
"**Building ontologies from the ground up: When users set out to model
their professional activity**" during our upcoming regular conference
call session. (02)
*Conference call-in details: * (03)
Date: Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004
Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST (World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=9&year=2004&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224) (04)
Session Duration: 1.5 ~ 2 Hours
Dial-in Number: 1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Participant Access Code: "686564#" (05)
**Building ontologies from the ground up: When users set out to model
their professional activity** (06)
Abstract: (07)
Building electronic ontologies no longer is exclusively the province of
philosophers or even that of computer scientists. Professionals of all
kinds increasingly recognize the importance of creating explicit, formal
models of the activities and objects with which they deal in their work
and of the data that drive their decision making. In business, science,
and government, there are burgeoning grassroots efforts to codify human
knowledge fur purposes of document retrieval, data analysis, and
decision support. These pragmatic efforts are enormously important to
the professional communities from which they derive. They do not always
adhere to standard conventions for domain modeling or knowledge
representation, however. (08)
In this talk, Professor Musen will discuss certain grass-roots efforts
to build ontologies and the effects that these efforts have had on their
professional communities. There are obvious growing pains as workers
most concerned about content knowledge learn to formalize that knowledge
in a way that can facilitate automated information management and
decision making. Professional societies, government agencies, and
educational institutions can be enormously beneficial in providing
resources to bolster these activities and to ensure that resulting
ontologies are sound and maximally reusable. The advent of "the
information society" requires the codification and dissemination of
human knowledge in electronic form. The people who work closest to that
knowledge are already taking major strides to build the necessary
ontologies and knowledge resources. (09)
*About the Speaker: * (010)
Dr. Musen is Professor of Medicine (Medical Informatics) and Computer
Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is head of the
Stanford Medical Informatics laboratory. He holds an MD from Brown
University and a PhD from Stanford. (011)
Dr. Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, the Semantic
Web, reusable ontologies and knowledge representations, and biomedical
decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé
has led to an open-source technology now used by thousands of developers
around the world to build intelligent computer systems and new computer
applications for e-commerce and the Semantic Web. He is known for his
research of the application of intelligent computer systems to assist
health-care workers in guideline-directed therapy and in management of
clinical trials. Dr. Musen’s group has begun to explore the use of
knowledge-based technologies to monitor a variety of data sources in an
effort to detect incipient epidemics, including those caused by possible
acts of bioterrorism. (012)
In 1989 Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in
Medical Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical
Systems and Informatics. He received a Young Investigator Award from the
National Science Foundation in 1992. He has served on the Biomedical
Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine and as an
advisor to many academic and industrial groups concerned with the
development of advanced information technology. Dr. Musen sits on the
editorial boards of several journals related to medical informatics and
computer science. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Medical Informatics
(Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Applied
Ontology. (013)
More details on the session can be found on our wiki at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_09 (014)
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. (015)
Look forward to have you at the session. (016)
Regards. -ppy (017)
P.S. to help us with the logistics, please add your name under the
"expected" attendees section
(http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2004_12_09#nid015)
if you are planning to attend, and haven't responded otherwise.
Tx. -ppy (018)
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