Re-post to the [ontology-summit] follow-up listserv. (Frank please
note, and let's continue the conversation from there.) (01)
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On 7/13/07, Olken, Frank <folken@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I plan to cover the following material: (03)
> Potential Ontology Applications for National Science Foundation
> Records Management (04)
> Disclaimer:
>
> These remarks are unofficial.
> Do not necessarily reflect NSF management views or policy. (05)
> NSF Activities
> Receive research proposals
> Review research proposals
> Either decline or award proposals
> Send out money
> Track money
> Track progress (06)
> NSF Record Management
>
> Every decision must be justified and documented
> All money must be tracked, documented
> Progress must be documented
> Declines have approx. 20 records each
> Awards will have several dozen records each
> Active lifetime of award is approx. 5-10 years
> Archival lifetime: currently life of agency
> Archival records:
> used for management studies
> used to find, evaluate reviewers
> used to assess PIs, novelty of proposals (07)
> NSF Record Types
>
> Research (proposals, award abstracts, reports)
> Reviews / award processing
> Money (08)
> NSF Records
>
> Policy Manual
> Solicitations
> Proposals
> Reviews
> IRB Approvals
> Budgets (proposal, NSF)
> Award letters
> Award budgets
> Award abstracts
> Progress reports (09)
> NSF Record Management
> Currently both paper and digital
> Transitioning to all digital
> Multiple systems:
> PARS, Fastlane, E-Jacket
> Transitioning to more integrated system. (010)
> Prospective Ontology Applications
> Search
> Routing
> Reporting
> Workflow management
> Entity Resolution (011)
> Search
> Taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, ...
> Used for query expansion, directory based searching (012)
> Ontologies:
> Record types
> NSF administrative ontology (proposals, awards, PIs, SROs,
> actions, states)
> NSF org chart
> Science taxonomies and synonyms (013)
> Routing
> Clustering proposals by topics
> Ontologies would help clustering - cope with terminology
> variation
> Routing to clusters, PIs, panels, reviewers, ... (014)
> Reporting
> Some builtin reporting (by organization structure, proposal
> status, ...)
> Frequent demands for ad-hoc reports
> e.g., by subject area, geography, institution, ...
> Ontologies (taxonomies - esp. of science) would help immensely (015)
> Workflow Management
> NSF workflow management is several stove pipe applications
> Info sharing - some shared DB, some messaging
> Not built on Workflow Management System
> Difficult to understand, change workflow
> Difficult to understand state of proposal
> Difficult to report fine-grained status of proposals
> e.g., Most proposal are "pending" - why?
> Need administrative ontologies
> of proposal status, documentation, worfklow,
> organization charts, ...
> Ontologies could support formalization, automation of
> workflow, workflow management (016)
> Entity Resolution
> Need instance level information on:
> reviewers, PIs, institutions, awards, ...
> Many persons / institutions appears multiple times
> variant spellings, simple duplication
> Need to resolve multiple entities (duplicate removal)
> for tracking, reporting, searching, ...
> (017)
> Slides to follow.
> Comments invited.
>
>
> Frank Olken
>
> National Science Foundation
> Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate
> Intelligent Information Systems Division
> Information Integration and Informatics
> Suite 1125
> 4201 Wilson Blvd.
> Arlington, VA 22230
>
> Tel: 703-292-8930 (main)
> Tel: 703-292-7350 (direct)
> Email: folken@xxxxxxx
>
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