This is an article on how the use of “analytics”
(does that include an ontology?) helped a Boston
hospital recover from a $30M annual loss to a $2.5M annual profit.
http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/data-analytics-takes-bmc-loss-25-million-profit/2014-01-17
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014
11:45 AM
To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontological issues relative to
privacy.
I imagine that we are
all constrained in what we can and choose to share to some degree: some by
corporate NDAs, some by government restrictions, and others by not wanting to
reveal too much about their research until their papers and posters are
accepted for publication and presentation. Some are probably absent due to
personality or might be self-conscious about posting on this list.
I would propose TAXII and
related family of products: http://taxii.mitre.org/ as
an example of government-private collaboration. The schemas are public, the
discussion is in the open, and the repositories are on Github. TAXII serves to
help share structured information security data. While the bigger associated
projects (STIX, CYBOX, MAEC, etc) use XSD schemas, the community is active in
talking about concepts and representation challenges similar to what we discuss
here. There is a small subset interested in creating OWL/RDF or CL versions of
these standards, but that effort has not gotten a full head of steam. Most of
those working with TAXII and the associated projects are information security
experts, developers, or DBMs. We would welcome the contribution of ontologists
and knowledge representation experts. There are other efforts at least within
DHS working to contribute back to the community.
On each of those pages
you'll see links to discussion forums, documentation, and software repositories.
Given that this is an
ontology and not policy or politics mailing list, I propose we refocus off of
geopolitics and onto how one reifies and projects onto our models the
concepts of privacy, data ownership, information transfer in a way that still
allows our systems to reason using privacy-preserving approaches.
As a
followup thought, I'd like to share an expectation I've had for the year or so
since I joined this list, one unclear can ever materialize. I have no doubt
representatives of the National Security community are on this list (rightly
and appreciatively so) and, knowing personally about the levels of funding
drenching that community for the past dozen years, I wanted to be aware of the
'give back' that community would now provide to open citizenry, its direct
investors and clearly its most primary stakeholders. So I want to ask in a
general way, what ontologies have been
developed by this community, what can be shared, with us? Anything about
privacy (asked with no tongue in cheek)?
Even more pointedly is that the National Institute for Standards &
Technology should have an inventory of the ontologies (being) developed
in-house to all government agencies. Why do I sense this level of information,
integration and facilitation, is simply absent from the work here?
This site is beginning to seem a bit like a charade to me. (charade: an absurd pretense intended to
create a pleasant or respectable appearance). I'd rather that not be the case
for many many reasons. Thanks for any response/jmc
On 1/17/2014 10:21 AM,
John McClure wrote:
On 1/17/2014 9:42 AM,
Kingsley Idehen wrote:
All isn't over, I am pretty confident about that, as long as humans are
involved. Folks just need to wake up!
So true and I think an effective contribution would be to create an
Ontolog-branded ontology for Privacy.
I'm hearing people talk about two different kinds of Privacy. One concerns
information NOT communicated to another -- implanted bugs and a personal
journal are mentioned -- for which there is a presumptive expectation of
non-disclosure byf its owner. This type of privacy out of scope on this forum in
my opinion, as valid and important as it most definitely is, because otherwise
we may walk into a cul-de-sac that turns people here off. More fruitful would
be to develop a mechanism that promotes transparency and accountability
when data owners' stated privacy expectations are not met by those with whom
the data owner has communicated the protected information.
An ontology for representing those expectations seems appropriately calibrated
to the mission of Ontolog.net. One that can be referenced within this text:
Facebook Term of
Service (emphasis added)
"You own all of the content and
information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is
shared through your privacy and application settings.
In addition: For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like
photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following
permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive,
transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP
content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License).
The present situation
is like the dawn of telephony -- we're all talking on a party-line, with zero
expectation of privacy, now it's time to create an SS7 protocol for the
Internet, if you will. In the meantime, I'll leave hardware matters to others
who have more sway than the soapbox we have here.
/jmc
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