Re: [ontolog-forum] What is an Ontologist?

["Iva E. Popova" <i.e.popova@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kingsley,
Maybe we should first find (and agree to) the answer of "What is an ontology?".

That question was stated officially 15 years ago, in 'Guarino, N.,Oberle, D. & Staab, S. What is an ontology?. In: "Handbook on Ontologies". Springer, 2nd edition, 2009.' and still there is no ontological commitment about its meaning.

On 18 January 2014 02:37, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kingsley and All ...

(I trust Kingsley aleady knows and is just asking a rhetoric question.)

See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit

... as to the subject question, the OntologySummit community actually tried to answer it during OntologySummit 2010 ... check out the Communique and deliverable from that year (link available from the above page.)

Cheers. =ppy
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On Jan 17, 2014 4:31 PM, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/17/14 6:40 PM, Obrst, Leo J. wrote:

Kingsley,

 

It’s the “Ontology Summit 2014”, a series of Ontology Summits that go back to 2006, and is not just an Ontolog effort. The co-organizers are: Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD. The theme this year is: Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology.

 

We invite you to join us and contribute to the effort. See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014.

 

Thanks,

Leo

Yes, I assumed I was joining and contributing :-)

Kingsley

 

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Subject: [ontolog-forum] What is an Ontologist?

 

All,

I am sure many of you have been asked one of the following questions over the years:

1. What is an Ontologist?
2. Are you an Ontologist?
3. Do you have an Ontologist in your organization?

Anyway, in our buzzword (and buzz-phrase) oriented world, we do have to provide answers to these kinds of questions, for sure. Unfortunately, being referred to as an Ontologist (circa. 2014) doesn't deliver the same kind of sizzle that's associated with Data Scientist.

Bearing in mind our buzzword laden reality,  what's a meaningful and zeitgeist friendly alternative for Ontologist, bearing in mind we know it doesn't imply Data Scientist ?

Personally, I've always considered Ontologists to be Data Artists due to the artistry that goes into creating a usable ontology aimed at enabling conceptual views over heterogeneously shaped data :-)

Why is this important?

Bridging Ontologies, Big Data, Open Data, Linked Open Data, and the Semantic Web is a strategic goal of the 2014 ontolog conference series.

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