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*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
We are pleased to announce the kick-off event for the Ontolog
mini-series on the topic: "Ontology Measurement and Evaluation."
This is a Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR initiative. (03)
We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this virtual event. (04)
*Conference call-in details*: (05)
Date: Thursday, 19-October-2006
Start Time: 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm EDT / 10:30am PDT
(World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=19&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
Session Duration: ~2 Hours
Dial-in Number: +1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
Participant Access Code: "686564#"
Shared-screen support will be available (06)
Topic: *Ontolog Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation*
- *Kick-off Session - Thu 19-Oct-2006* (07)
This is the first event of a mini-series of talks and discussions
that revolve around the topic of "Ontology Measurement and
Evaluation." This community will be exploring the landscape,
issues and solutions relating to the measurement, evaluation,
quality and testing of ontologies. (08)
This is a Joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR initiative. A planning meeting
for this mini-series took place on 22-Aug-2006, during which the
scope and plans for the program was discussed among members of
the community. Dr. Steven Ray, who is the Chief of NIST's
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division (MSID), a long time
member of the Ontolog community, as well as the convener of
NCOR's Ontology Evaluation Committee, was invited to champion the
program. This series is expected to last about 6 months during
which invited speaker and technical discussion events will be
featured (at the rate of about one event per month). (09)
Keynote Presentation: *Ontology Quality and the Semantic Web* (010)
*Abstract*:
by Dr. Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (011)
One of the guiding principles of the web and its machine
interpretable successor the semantic web is to "let a million
flowers bloom." HTML was based on technology nearly two decades
old at the time (Hypertext), for which a research community
concerned mainly with Human-Computer interaction was
investigating what the "right way" to use hypertext for effective
communication was. The vast majority of early HTML pages
completely ignored this and yet the web thrived. Still, as the
web became a serious medium for dissemination, institutions for
whom effective communication was critical did begin to take this
research seriously and today's highly visible web pages are
designed by people with experience and training on how to "do it
right". The progress and evolution of the semantic web should
follow the same path - the semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, and
RIF) are based on decades-old technology from Knowledge
Representation and Databases, and there has been for about 15
years a research community associated with this field that has
studied what the "right way" to use these systems is. This field,
which I will call "ontology engineering" for this talk, is
concerned among other things with ontology quality and its impact. (012)
In this talk I will discuss research on characterizing ontology
quality and measuring the impact of quality on knowledge-based
systems. (013)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19 (014)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call.
The session is expected to start with Opening Remarks and the
Keynote Talk. It will be followed by an extended discussion
between and among the speakers and the participants. 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). (015)
As usual, this Ontolog event is open to all. I look forward to
having you at this session. Please pass the announcement along to
those who might be interested to join us too. (016)
*RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline. (017)
Regards. =ppy (018)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
<http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/> (019)
[NIST = US National Institute of Standards and Technology
NCOR = (US) National Center for Ontological Research ]
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