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From: "Peter P. Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:08:38 -0800
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http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_04     (01)



*ANNOUNCEMENT*    (02)

The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the third 
event of Ontolog mini-series on "Database and 
Ontology."  Ms. Elisa Kendall, CEO and Founder of 
Sandpiper Software will be our invited speaker on 
Thursday, 04-Jan-2007. Ms. Kendall will be giving a 
talk entitled: "The Ontology Definition Metamodel 
(ODM): Motivation & Brief Introduction".    (03)

We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this 
virtual event.    (04)


*Conference call-in details*:    (05)

Date: Thursday, 04-January-2007 Start Time: 10:30am PST /
                                 1:30pm EST / 18:30 GMT/UTC
  (World Time: 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=4&year=2007&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)    (06)


Session Duration: 1.5~2.0 Hours Dial-in Number:
  o from a telephone (US): +1-712-432-4990 (Iowa, USA)
  o from a phone (Europe): 0870-119-1313 (UK)
                        or 01805 00 7620 (Germany)
  o callers from other countries please dial into 
either one of the US or European numbers
  o Conference ID: "5823120#"
  o Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
Shared-screen support will be available    (07)



Session Chair  : *Dr. Matthew West* (Shell 
International Petroleum Co.)
Invited Speaker: *Ms. Elisa Kendall* (Sandpiper 
Software, Inc.)    (08)

Topic: *The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)*:
        *Motivation & Brief Introduction*    (09)


*Abstract*: (by Elisa Kendall)    (010)

The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) is recently 
adopted standard from the Object Management Group that 
supports ontology development and conceptual modeling 
in several standard representation languages. It 
provides a coherent framework for visual ontology 
creation based on OMG’s Meta Object Facility (MOF™) and 
UML™ (Unified Modeling Language), bridging Model Driven 
Architecture (MDA®)-based standards for automating the 
physical management and integration of metadata with 
Semantic Web technologies.    (011)

In this talk, we will:    (012)

   o Introduce some of the languages supported by the 
ODM, and step through the basic metamodels for RDF, 
OWL, and Common Logic    (013)

   o Discuss related efforts in the W3C and OMG and how 
they relate to the ODM (e.g., W3C Semantic Web Services 
& Rules, OMG Semantics of Business Vocabularies & 
Rules, Production Rule Representation)    (014)

   o Touch on the relationships between the ODM and 
standards for metadata development, management, and 
registration emerging from the W3C and ISO/IEC 
communities (e.g., Dublin Core, Simple Knowledge 
Organisation System (SKOS), ISO 11179)    (015)

   o Explore current research and its implications for 
next generation architectures and solutions that 
embrace the marriage of MDA and Semantic Web technologies.    (016)


*About the Speaker*:    (017)

*Miss Elisa Kendall* is the CEO of Sandpiper Software, 
which she founded in 1995. She has over 25 years 
professional experience in the design, development and 
deployment of enterprise-scale information management 
systems for communications, high technology, and 
manufacturing applications, with a focus on information 
interoperability. Over the last five years she has been 
instrumental in bridging emerging technologies from 
professional software engineering disciplines, such as 
the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Model Driven 
Architecture (MDA®) methodology, which provides a basis 
for automating metadata management, and knowledge 
representation and reasoning (Semantic Web) 
technologies. She is principal architect of Sandpiper's 
UML-based knowledge representation, ontology analysis, 
and reasoning architecture, and has developed rigorous 
methodologies for domain assessment and ontology design 
and development. Her formal training in Situation 
Semantics coupled with extensive systems integration 
experience led to Sandpiper’s innovative approach.    (018)

Ms. Kendall currently supports a number of key 
customers in large scale, complex taxonomy, ontology 
and knowledge-based systems development activities, 
leads the ontology and policy-based network management 
segment of SPARTA’s DARPA/SAPIENT effort, and is a key 
contributor to standards such as the OMG’s Ontology 
Definition Metamodel (ODM). She is an active 
participant in the Semantic Web Best Practices and 
Deployment activity at the W3C, with a focus on 
software and ontology engineering. Recent customer 
projects include supporting development of ontologies 
for a large-scale chemical engineering application, 
development of ontologies for monitoring and management 
of software in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) 
framework, and policy-based information integration 
architecture development for a financial services company.    (019)

While acting as an independent consultant for Lockheed 
Martin in early 1996, she conceived the notion of 
applying knowledge sharing technologies to complex 
engineering data integration and drove the reuse 
strategy for the DARPA/TRI-Services RASSP program. 
Before founding Sandpiper, Ms. Kendall served as 
product development manager for Aspect Development, a 
provider of component and supplier management systems 
acquired by i2 Technologies. She started her career in 
development, integration, and deployment of 
ground-based communications, signal, and data 
processing systems at Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space. 
She holds an MA in Linguistics from Stanford University 
and a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from the 
University of California at Los Angeles.    (020)


*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_04     (021)


This will be a virtual session over an augmented 
conference call. The session is expected to start with 
a 1 Hour presentation followed by a Q&A and discussion 
between the participants and the speaker. The entire 
session will be recorded and made available as open 
content under the prevailing Ontolog IPR policy (see: 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).     (022)


As usual, this Ontolog event is open to all. I look 
forward to having you at this session. Please pass the 
announcement along to those who might be interested to 
join us too.    (023)

*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.)    (024)


Regards. =ppy    (025)

Peter P. Yim Co-convener, Ontolog
--     (026)


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