We had one of the best attended Ontolog sessions today, Feb. 2,
2006, with Dr. Nicola Guarino from the (Italian) National
Research Council - Institute for Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento,
Italy, who presented to our community his talk on: "Making basic
ontological assumptions: the DOLCE experience". The presentation
was absolutely brilliant. (01)
Thank you very much, Dr. Guarino, for sharing with us your work
and insight. Appreciations are also due to Ontolog co-convener,
Dr. Leo Obrst of Mitre, who had made the invitation to Dr.
Guarino on behalf of our community and helped co-organize this
event. And, as always, thanks to all who came, participated and
helped contribute to yet another great Ontolog session. (02)
The digitized (mp3) audio recording of the entire session has
now been posted. That will be archived in our knowledge
repository for reference and download by anyone interested. See
details at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02#nidJMH
Dr. Guarino's input today adds true value to this collective
knowledge and intelligence that our community is building. (03)
Thanks & regards. =ppy (04)
P.S. Our major upcoming events already lined up, will include: (05)
Thursday, Mar. 2, 2006, Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac from the
Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey will be
presenting to the community. Her talk is entitled: "Exploiting
ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" ... Please refer
to details on the wiki session page at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_02 (06)
Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2006 all afternoon EST, where custodians of
key upper ontologies and basic ontologists from around the world
will be convening at our Upper Ontology Summit event. This Summit
is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST and SICoP (and its ONTAC/COSMO
Working Groups). The event will be featured both virtually (like
our nominal augmented conference call events) as well as
physically, on-site at the US National Institute for Standards
and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD, US). See our wiki page:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummit for
more details, and be on the lookout for further announcements. (07)
Mark your calendars now so that you won't missed these great
upcoming events. =ppy
-- (08)
Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:53:24 -0800:
> *REMINDER*
>
> This long-awaited event is happening tomorrow!
>
> ... So, if you still haven't registered for it, please do so now (by
> e-mailing me offline (to: peter.yim-at-cim3.com) with your name and
> affiliation. This is necessary to ensure that we have enough
> conferencing resources for everyone to call in.
>
> If you're already registered (as indicated by your name showing on our
> "expected attendee" list at
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02#nidJLG),
> we'll look forward to having you at the session tomorrow.
>
> Cheers. =ppy
> -- (09)
> Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:32:00 -0800:
>> *ANNOUNCEMENT*
>>
>> We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nicola Guarino, from the
>> Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento, Italy will be
>> presenting to the community on Thursday, February 2, 2006. His talk is
>> entitled: "Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience"
>>
>> [DOLCE, the acronym for Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and
>> Cognitive Engineering, is an initiative lead by Dr. Guarino and is one
>> of the leading Upper Ontologies available.]
>>
>>
>> *Conference call-in details*:
>>
>> Date: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006
>> Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 UTC (World Time:
>>
>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=2&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
>
>>
>> Session Duration: 1.5 ~ 2 Hours
>> Dial-in Number: +1-641-696-6600 (Iowa, USA)
>> Participant Access Code: "686564#"
>> VNC shared-screen support available
>>
>>
>> *Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience*
>> by Nicola Guarino
>>
>>
>> *Abstract*:
>>
>> This talk will be organized in three parts:
>>
>> i) a short introduction on the role of axiomatic, foundational
>> ontologies;
>>
>> ii) a discussion on the basic ontological choices available, and on
>> the need to establish systematic links and comparisons among them; and
>>
>> iii) a presentation of the basic DOLCE choices in the light of the
>> above discussion.
>>
>>
>> *About the Speakers:*
>>
>> *Nicola Guarino* (1954) is a senior research scientist at the
>> Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian
>> National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), where he leads the Laboratory
>> for Applied Ontology (LOA) in Trento. He graduated in Electrical
>> Engineering at the University of Padova in 1978, with a thesis on
>> biomedical engineering. In 1979–1984 he was in charge of the data
>> acquisition and monitoring system of a large nuclear fusion experiment
>> in Padova. He then moved to the area of knowledge representation,
>> joining the CNR Institute of Systems Theory and Biomedical Engineering
>> (LADSEB-CNR) to work initially on medical expert systems. He moved to
>> ISTC-CNR in 2003. He has been working on the foundations of knowledge
>> representation and conceptual modeling for more than twenty years,
>> playing a leading role in developing a strongly interdisciplinary
>> approach that combines together Computer Science, Philosophy, and
>> Linguistics, and relies on Logic as a unifying paradigm. (JM3)
>>
>> He is editor-in-chief (with Dr. Mark Musen) of the Journal of Applied
>> Ontology, associate editor of the International Journal of
>> Human-Computer Studies and the Journal of Data Semantics, and general
>> chair of the FOIS (Formal Ontology in Information Systems) conference
>> series.
>>
>>
>> *Refer to details on the session wiki page at:*
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_02_02
>>
>> This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call. The
>> session is expected to start with a 45 min. ~ 1 Hour presentation
>> followed by an extended discussion between the participants and the
>> speaker. The entire session will be recorded and made available as
>> open content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR policy (see:
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
>>
>> I look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass the
>> announcement along to those who might be interested to join us too.
>> All are welcomed. *RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
>> offline.
>>
>>
>> Regards. =ppy
>>
>> Peter P. Yim
>> Co-convener, Ontolog
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