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http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_11 (01)
*ANNOUNCEMENT* (02)
The Ontolog community is pleased to announce the 3rd
event of the joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR mini-series on
"Ontology Measurement and Evaluation." Professor
Werner Ceusters, Director of the Ontology Research
Group (ORG) of the New York State Center of Excellence
in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences at the SUNY-Buffalo
will be our invited speaker on Thursday, 11-Jan-2007.
He will be giving a talk entitled: "Realism-based
Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies
and Data Repositories." (03)
We take pleasure in inviting you to join us at this
virtual event. (04)
*Conference call-in details*: (05)
Date: Thursday, 11-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=11&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. Steven Ray* (NIST, US)
Invited Speaker: *Professor Werner Ceusters*
(SUNY-Buffalo, NY, USA) (08)
Topic: *Realism-based Change Management for Quality
Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories* (09)
*Abstract*: (by Werner Ceusters) (010)
Under the view of an ONTOLOGY as a representational
artifact, comprising a taxonomy as proper part, whose
representational units are intended to designate some
combination of universals, defined classes, and certain
relations between them, and of a DATA REPOSITORY as a
representational artifact built out of singular terms
such as proper names or alphanumeric identifiers
referring to particulars, there are at least four
reasons why updates in ontologies and data repositories
are carried out: (1) changes in reality, (2) changes in
the understanding of reality by the authors of these
artifacts, (3) changes in the purpose(s) for which the
artifacts have been designed, and (4) correction of
mistakes. Annotating any change in such an artifact
with the reasons for that change, classified under
these four headings, leads to a powerful mechanism for
assessing the improvement of quality over time of these
artifacts as well as the skills of their authors in
maintaining them. (011)
*About the Speaker*: (012)
*Werner Ceusters* studied medicine, neuro-psychiatry,
informatics and knowledge engineering in Belgium. Since
1993, he has been involved in numerous national and
European research projects in the area of Electronic
Health Records, Natural Language Understanding and
Ontology. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he was Executive
Director of the European Centre for Ontological
Research at Saarland University, Germany. He is
currently Health Sciences Professor connected to the
Psychiatry Department of the School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo NY (UB), Director
of the Ontology Research Group of the New York State
Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life
Sciences, and coordinator of Bioinformatics for the
Health Science Faculties at UB. (013)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_01_11 (014)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented
conference call. The session is expected to include 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). (015)
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. (016)
*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.) (017)
Regards. =ppy (018)
Peter P. Yim Co-convener, Ontolog
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