We had a really wonderful kick-off session for the
"Ontology Measurement & Evaluation" mini-series yesterday. (01)
The session began with brief opening remarks by the co-organizers
Professor Barry Smith (NCOR), Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog) and Dr.
Steven Ray (NIST), each explaining why this work is important
from the perspective of the organization they represent.
Following that, Dr. Ray (program lead) kicked-off the program by
providing an overview on the series of events to come. He
solicited further suggestion from the community for
speakers/panelists and topics of interest. Dr. Ray also suggested
the possibility of engaging the community into collaboratively
developing an open document of key aspects of "Ontology
Measurement & Evaluation." This could be in the form of an open
wiki article/handbook, which could also be considered a
deliverable of this series. (02)
He then introduced our keynote speaker Dr. Chris Welty from the
IBM Watson Research Center. Dr. Welty gave a lively talk on:
"Ontology Quality and the Semantic Web," providing some of the
key tenets of a high quality ontology, and debunking the myth
that good ontologies may not be necessary for the semantic web
(as some believes that the likes of "folksonomies" are good
enough.) An enthusiastic discussion followed. (03)
Our appreciations go out to Dr. Ray, Dr. Welty and all who
contributed to yesterday's session and to making this series
happen. And, as always, thanks to all participants who joined us.
Proceedings of the session are captured at our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19 (04)
In particular, audio recording of the session (as well as the
podcast and telephone playback of it) is now available too - see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19#nidQVK (05)
Best regards. =ppy (06)
P.S. On next Thursday, 26-October-2006, Dr. Pat Hayes from the
Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ("IHMC") will be
our invited speaker. His presentation: "A logic for ontology
interoperation" will mainly be about "Common Logic (CL)" - a
system of logical notations and formalisms that can act as an
expressive foundation for ontology interchange. CL is currently
going through ISO approval to become "ISO Common Logic". This is
important, as far as this community and our domain is concerned.
RSVP now (to the sender offline) to register your attendance. ...
Refer to further details on the session wiki page at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_26
=ppy
-- (07)
Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:37:23 -0700:
> Ref:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19
>
>
> *REMINDER*
>
> The subject session is coming up tomorrow Thursday 19-Oct-2006 (starting
> at 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm EDT / 10:30am PDT).
>
> This joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR initiative on the crucial subject of
> "Ontology Measurement and Evaluation" will be kicking-off tomorrow.
> Anyone who is, or believes that he/she will be implementing
> ontology-based initiatives, would want to join in and explore the
> subject matter with other participants of this mini-series. The series
> is expected to span the next 6 months or so. The best way to start this
> is to come tomorrow to this kick-off event!
>
> ... RSVP (by e-mailing the sender offline) if you are planning to attend
> and haven't already responded. We need the information to prepare enough
> resources to support everyone.
>
> We look forward to having you at the session.
>
>
> Regards. =ppy (08)
Peter P. Yim wrote Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:34:08 -0700:
> Ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19
>
>
> *ANNOUNCEMENT*
>
> 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.
>
> We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this
> virtual event.
>
>
> *Conference call-in details*:
>
> 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
>
>
> Topic: *Ontolog Mini-Series: Ontology Measurement and Evaluation*
> - *Kick-off Session - Thu 19-Oct-2006*
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
>
> Keynote Presentation: *Ontology Quality and the Semantic Web*
>
> *Abstract*:
> by Dr. Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center
>
> 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.
>
> In this talk I will discuss research on characterizing ontology
> quality and measuring the impact of quality on knowledge-based
> systems.
>
>
> *Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_10_19
>
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> *RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline.
>
>
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter P. Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog
> <http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/>
>
> [NIST = US National Institute of Standards and Technology
> NCOR = (US) National Center for Ontological Research ] (09)
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