All, (01)
After much deliberation, the Ontology Summit 2007 organizing
committee has adopted the tag line for this year's summit. The
initiative is now officially called: (02)
"Ontology Summit 2007 - Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy:
Understanding the Distinctions" (03)
(therefore, please stop referring to it as "What is An Ontology?"
any more ... that original temporary tag line may have caused
different expectations than what has been intended, although our
objective has not changed.) (04)
To enumerate, again, the objective of the "Ontology Summit 2007"
initiative: (05)
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Ontology Summit 2007 (06)
*Objective* (07)
Building upon the successful model of last year's
UpperOntologySummit, co-sponsors from NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, NCBO,
NLM/NIH, TagCommons, W3C and others (to be confirmed) are
initiating a second summit during the spring of 2007. (08)
We are hoping to convene key players in both research and
applications who profess in developing or facilitating the
evolution of "ontologies" and structures that helps model
semantics, to join us in our Ontology Summit 2007 activity to
help everyone understand the distinctions between Ontology,
Taxonomy, Folksonomy and all the terminologies in between, which
various communities employ to label those "ontologies" or
"structures." (09)
The challenge, this year, put before the various constituencies
and communities involved, is to clarify what everyone means when
they use the term "ontology" or when they refer to these semantic
structures. Our objective is to define and agree to a systematic
means of categorizing the many kinds of things that fall broadly
within the "ontology" spectrum. By doing so, the research,
development and Internet communities would have a better way of
comparing, combining and mapping ontologies to one another
(apples to apples). The range of what people call "ontologies"
covers so-called "folksonomies", taxonomies, thesauri, conceptual
models, and formal logic-based models to name just a few flavors. (010)
The Ontolog Forum plans to initiate a vigorous three-month online
discourse on the subject matter, and hopefully come up with
promising strawman structures to characterize all of these
possibilities, and more. This online discourse will culminate in
a two-day face-to-face workshop and symposium during NIST's
Interoperability Week 2007 on 23 & 24-April-2007. (011)
Similar to last year's summit, the conveners of "Ontology Summit
2007" will release a written communique to the international
press, laying out the final categorization structure and locating
some key ontological artifacts within it as one of the
deliverables from this initiative.
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Source:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007#nidSKB (013)
As Steve Ray so eloquently said it during our Jan-18 launch
meeting[1] rather than to "bludgeon the world into using a single
definition", we want to "provide a means of identifying what kind
of “"ontology" you are talking about. (014)
At our organizing committee conference call yesterday, where this
new "tag line" was adopted, Olivier Bodenreider drew a rather
appropriate analogy by saying, "we want to be USGS, and not the
UN." ... Yes, conveners of Ontology Summit 2007 should look
themselves as the cartographers, not the peace keepers! (015)
I hope this announcement and clarification will help us focus the
discussion, and help get us reach the challenging objective we
have set out to achieve, and in so doing, provide value to the
community-at-large. Thank you all for a most intriguing discourse
and all your contribution. (016)
Thanks & regards. =ppy (017)
for and on behalf of the
Ontology Summit 2007 Organizing Committee (018)
P.S. [1] Ontology Summit 2007 Launch Meeting - see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_18 (019)
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has not subscribed to the [ontology-summit] list yet, please
refer to details at:
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