On Thursday 8-Feb-2007, we had a really exciting session for the
4th episode of the Ontolog mini-series on "Database and
Ontology." Dr. Matthew West (Shell International Petroleum
Company) presided over the session with invited speaker, Mr.
Martin O'Connor, a Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics
who presented his talk on "Efficiently Querying Relational
Databases using OWL and SWRL." (01)
Our appreciations go out to Mr. O'Connor for sharing his
wonderful work with us, to Dr. Timothy Redmond (who leads the
development of Stanford Medical Informatics' Protégé ontology
editing tool) for recommending this talk, to Dr. Matthew West for
championing this mini-series, and, as always, to all the
participants for joining us and for contributing to the extensive
discussion we had during the session. (02)
Proceedings of the session are captured on our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 (03)
In particular, full audio recording of the session is now
available - see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08#nidTEM
... Mr. O'Connor's presentation and the ensuing discussion
contribute to yet another piece in the body of knowledge on
ontology and ontological engineering that our community is
building together. Thanks again! (04)
Best regards. =ppy (05)
P.S. Upcoming events: (06)
* On Thursdays 22-February-2007, Dr. Steven Ray from NIST will be
presenting us the 4th Event in the "Ontology Evaluation &
Measurement" Mini-Series. Dr. Michael Gruninger (University of
Toronto) and Mr. Conrad Bock (NIST) will be our invited speakers
for that session. (07)
* Thursday, 1-March-2007 - Dr. Tom Gruber, the scientist who
defined the term "ontology" in the sense we apply to its use in
computer science, artificial intelligence and the semantic web
these days, will be our invited speaker. The talk will be
pertinent to our ongoing Ontology Summit 2007 initiative. (08)
* Thursday, 8-March-2007 - we will be presenting the 5th session
in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Adrian Walker,
CTO of Reengineering LLC, will be our invited speaker. He will be
presenting a talk on "Usability, Databases and Ontologies" (09)
** Don't miss any of these great events. Mark your calendars now,
and be on the look out for the official announcement of the event
which will be coming out soon. (010)
Tx. =ppy
-- (011)
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Re: [ontolog-invitation] Ontolog Mini-Series: Database and
Ontology (Session-4) - Mr. Martin O'Connor - Thu 08-Feb-2007 (012)
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08 (013)
*REMINDER* (014)
The Ontolog "Database & Ontology" mini-series invited talk by Mr.
Martin O'Connor from Stanford Medical Informatics, on "using OWL
and SWRL to query relational databases" is coming up this
Thursday 8-Feb-2007 (starting at 18:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm
EST / 10:30am PST). (015)
Come find out how one can use the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and
the Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) to query data that is
stored in relational databases! (016)
RSVP (by e-mailing the sender off-line; if you aren't already an
Ontolog member, kindly include your name, affiliation and job
title as well) if you are planning to attend and haven't already
responded. (017)
We look forward to having you at the session. (018)
Regards. =ppy
-- (019)
Peter P. Yim wrote Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:17:48 -0800:
> Re:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08
> (020)
> *ANNOUNCEMENT*
>
> The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the fourth event
of Ontolog mini-series on "Database and Ontology." Mr. Martin
O'Connor, a Researcher from Stanford Medical Informatics will be
our invited speaker on Thursday, 08-Feb-2007. Mr. O'Connor will
be giving a talk entitled: "Efficiently Querying Relational
Databases using OWL and SWRL".
>
> We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this virtual event.
> (021)
> *Conference call-in details*:
>
> Date: Thursday, 08-February-2007
> Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
> Session Duration: 1.5~2.0 Hours Dial-in Number:
> o from a telephone (US): +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
> o from a phone (Europe): 0870-738-0763 (UK)
> or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
> o callers from other countries please dial into either one
of the US or European numbers
> o Conference ID: "5823120#"
> o Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
> Shared-screen support will be available
> (022)
> Session Chair : *Dr. Matthew West* (Shell International
Petroleum Co.) (023)
> Invited Speaker: *Mr. Martin O'Connor* (Stanford Medical
Informatics) (024)
> Topic: *Efficiently Querying Relational Databases*
> *using OWL and SWRL*
> (025)
> *Abstract*: (by Martin O'Connor)
>
> For the foreseeable future most data will continue to be
stored in relational databases. To work with these data in
OWL-based applications, tools and techniques that bridge the two
models are required. Mapping all relational data to instances in
an OWL knowledge base is often not practical, and is
inappropriate in query-driven systems. To address this problem we
have developed tools that allow the direct querying of relational
data from OWL applications. We use OWL's rule language SWRL to
express these queries. A number of optimizations are employed to
ensure that this process is efficient and scales to large data sets. (026)
> *About the Speaker*:
>
> Before joining Stanford Medical Informatics, *Mr. Martin
O'Connor* worked for several years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research
Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. At Stanford he was involved in
the development of the EON system, a component-based architecture
for developing decision support systems for guideline based care.
Mr. O'Connor also developed the Chronus temporal query system,
which has been used in a number of projects to perform temporal
queries on biomedical data. Martin also coordinated the
development of the BioSTORM, a research system to develop and
evaluate intelligent systems for epedimic detection and
characerization. In parallel with the BioSTORM efforts he is
investigating the use of rules and query languages on the
Semantic Web. Mr. O'Connor is currently developing the SWRLTab,
an open source Protege-OWL-based development environment for the
Semantic Web rule language (SWRL).
> (027)
> *Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_02_08
> (028)
> This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference
call. The session is expected to start with a 1 Hour presentation
followed by a Q&A and 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). (029)
> 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. (030)
> *RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline so
that we can prepare enough resources to support everyone. (Kindly
include your affiliation and job title if you aren't already a
member of the Ontolog community.)
>
> (031)
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter P. Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog (032)
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