We had, on Thursday 06-December-2007, another one of our best attended
virtual sessions. Professor Mark Musen, Head of the Stanford Center
for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical
Informatics) and Principal Investigator of the National Center for
Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) research consortium, presented a talk on
the NCBO and its BioPortal initiative, entitled: "If we build it, will
they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate
biomedical ontologies." (01)
Professor Musen shared with us the status, as well as the vision of
the NCBO initiative. The BioPortal is designed to serve as an
experiment to tackle both the technology and sociology problems
associated with disseminating, aligning and assuring the quality of
biomedical information and knowledge being shared. Asserting that
'real' ontologies exist and are being developed in a 'non-ideal' world
that we all live in, he called upon the community to join him and his
colleagues to collectively make the BioPortal into a successful
resource for everyone. (02)
Thank you, Mark, for doing this talk, and for sharing your insights
with us. Thanks to Barry, again, for making this happen. And as
always, our appreciations go out to all who joined us at the event;
especially for their contributions to the rich discussion we had
during the last segment of the session. (03)
Proceedings of the session are captured on our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 (04)
In particular, full audio recording of the session (as well as the
podcast of it) is now available - see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06#nid1616 (05)
... This contribution from Professor Musen and the NCBO / BioPortal
folks, adds yet another valuable piece to the body of knowledge on
ontology and ontological engineering that our community is building
together. Thank you again, Mark, and everyone! (06)
Best regards. =ppy (07)
P.S. as announced earlier, the second episode of the ongoing
NASA-Ontolog-KMWG "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision
Support (OKMDS)" mini-series is coming up next Thursday (13-Dec-2007).
Register your now (if you haven't already done so).
See details at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_13 (08)
Watch our [ontolog-invitation] list for further announcements of
Ontolog events that may be of interest, or browse the listing under
the "News & Announcements" section at our Ontolog WikiHomePage (at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW ) for our
upcoming events. (09)
An archive of noteworthy past Ontolog events can be found at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ (010)
Tx. =ppy
-- (011)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Dec 5, 2007 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Ontolog invited Speaker - Professor Mark Musen on NCBO -
Thu 2007.12.06
To: ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (012)
Re:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 (013)
*REMINDER* (014)
The Ontolog invited speaker presentation by Professor Mark Musen
(Stanford) from the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)
research consortium is coming up tomorrow, i.e. Thursday,
06-December-2007 (starting at 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 UTC). (015)
Come join us in this highly anticipated session during which Professor
Musen will be sharing with the community the vision, the status, the
challenges and some of his insights into what NCBO will entail. You
wouldn't want to miss this session if you are working in the
biomedical ontology domain, either as a domain expert, developer, user
or administrator. (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. Please refer to all
agenda and call-in details on the session page, whose link
appears at the top of this message. (018)
Regards. =ppy
-- (019)
On Nov 18, 2007 8:00 PM, Peter P. Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ************************ Headlines ************************ (020)
> The Ontolog Forum is featuring a talk by Professor Mark Musen
> from Stanford University:
> (021)
> *Thu 06 December 2007* - Professor Mark Musen, Head of the
> Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research and Principal
> Investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
> research consortium, will be giving a talk on: "If we build it,
> will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to
> disseminate biomedical ontologies."
> (022)
> Register your attendance by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline (023)
> ******************** Details ************************
>
> Your are cordially invited to join us at this upcoming Ontolog
> Invited Speaker (virtual) events. (024)
> The online Ontolog events are open and free of charge. Anyone who
> is interested, or (better still) who may have something to
> contribute, is welcome. Refer to individual event details on
> their respective session pages. The links are given below, where
> you will find session agenda, presentation abstract, conference
> call dial-in and other pertinent details .
> (025)
> *Thursday, 6-December-2007* - Professor Mark Musen, Head of
> the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly
> Stanford Medical Informatics) and Principal Investigator of the
> National Center for Biomedical Ontology research consortium,
> giving a talk on: "If we build it, will they come?
> Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical
> ontologies." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page
> at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_12_06 (026)
> (027)
> *Abstract* - The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is
> developing a wide range of Web-based services to assist end users
> in browsing, evaluation, and use of ontologies. These features
> include capabilities for which there is no specific correlate in
> current technology for ontology management. These features
> include online community-based review and annotation of
> ontologies, support for declaring mappings between ontologies,
> and the push of information about ontology changes directly to a
> user's desktop. These novel capabilities for ontology access and
> use have the potential to address pressing end-user needs and to
> engage entire research communities in the development, evolution,
> and evaluation of controlled terminologies and ontologies. Our
> work offers possibilities for the creation of a new kind of
> collaborative, community-based approach to the dissemination and
> use of ontologies. The key question is whether our user community
> is ready for such capabilities. The issue is one of sociology and
> culture as much as it is one of technology. This talk will
> describe the BioPortal for access to biomedical ontologies
> online, and will outline our future plans for this novel,
> Web-based resource.
> (028)
> *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.) Before participating, please
> also make sure you are aware of our IPR policy (ref:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
>
> (029)
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter P. Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog
>
>
> P.S. Please also check out:
>
> Our listing of upcoming events at Ontolog, under our "News &
> Announcements" section at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidW
>
> The rich body of knowledge comprising past Ontolog presentations,
> panel discussions and workshops that have been archived. They can
> be accessed from:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidZ
>
> --
> (030)
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