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[ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2009 - Standards integration or intero

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From: "Ravi Sharma" <ravisharma@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:24:43 -0400
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Anyone seeing the variety and disconnectedness of the languages or notations, vertical applications and Subject Matters relating to ontologies is likely to be confused and one of the purposes over next two days could perhaps address and weave an integration and interoperation thread!

  1. Could we think of a possible overarching ontology or standard (one could argue for both threads in parallel)?
  2. We know about the metamodel in many tools where ER diagrams clarify simple relationships.
  3. Is there a similar scope for Ontology based metamodels, the basic element if one goes to RDF approach would be a triple, for MOF there could be a UML thing / class, etc.
  4. Then one would see how well this metamodel captures at least upper level elements of predicate calculus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-order_logic) and also practically develops important use cases of relationships that are universal. Can the metamodel describe various standards?
  5. If we can agree on essentials of such metamodel or the approach to consensus from multidisciplinary approaches to the metamodel, we can map existing and planned standards relating to semantics, web and SOA, vertical disciplines (e.g. biology and its sub disciplines) and see where there are large gaps and analyze whether it is cost effective to bridge those gaps based on demand or value to research, business, the government regulation or information sharing and have a sense of the standards space. To some of us who have been working on standards and see that even the known methodologies and Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) have limits of scope and thus overall integration among various standards (and the spaces covered by SDOs) could be assisted by such an overview metamodel. How many of IT, Business, and Knowledge Based as well as semantic standards would enter such a metamodel could also be addressed.
  6. Also going forward, for ontologies to be able to semantically connect themselves, e.g. in biology (a tall order example!) at least some interoperation standards ought to be followed by ontologies. For example ODM attempts such a scenario (UML, OWL, CL) at least but the pace at which different *_ML languages and standards are being developed (and some even for the semantics), the development time and resource constraints make it a long time target to achieve? We need to therefore often de-scope and manage incremental progress while not losing the canvas on which different SDOs have to interoperate! Can this Summit address priority areas to SDOs for integration or interoperations among standards? Can ontology based metamodels help such efforts?

 

Thanks.

Ravi

(Dr. Ravi Sharma)

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