http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_Communique
is the actual communique that has the description of the job.
The "Core Skills" are not actually expressed as skills or
abilities but are written as activities that a person would do. It
is left to the reader to figure out what skills are required to do
each activity listed.
Two types of ontologists are identified (
IT-oriented
ontologists and Community-oriented ontologists )
with a hint that other types might exist. I worry that the second
type is more likely to encourage terrible ontologies made by
people who are fully trained in their "community" field but have
little or no training in system analysis and have a "dog in the
fight".
One of the biggest skills is the ability to listen with an open
mind and common sense to SMEs who may be lying to you, and extract
the truth. SMEs don't mean to lie and are not aware that they are
not telling the truth. It takes tact and care to get them to the
truth sometimes. If you can't do this, then your analysis will be
wrong and the resulting ontology will not stand up to community
scrutiny or use.
I think that this skill might be a combination of "critical
thinking", "effective listening" and "knowledge mapping". It is
hard to teach.
With the push by IBM to incorporate Watson into mainstream
business and scientific applications, there are probably changes
to the "Core Knowledge" and section about integration and tools
that are important.
I believe that there will be a lot of high paying opportunities
for any ontologist fresh out of school who has worked on a class
project that built any kind of working demo with Watson.
Ron
On 18/01/2014 5:20 PM, Iva E. Popova wrote: