Re: [ontology-summit] Fwd: Ontologist Aptitude Test?

["Peter F Brown (Pensive)" <Peter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

could you, we, keep this a little less US-specific? These test names are meaningless to me - could you instead give some indications ofthe generic aspects of such tests that are vlauable for this discussion (they are self-assessments; they are multiple choice, they are envigilated, they involve essays, etc) - if "aptitude", however scoped, defined, assessed and judged, is considered as a valuable conideration for tomorrow's ontologists, then criteria and assessment not only of the students but of any test/certification, etc will have to be thoroughly thought through..

 

Peter

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From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sanchez, Arturo [asanchez@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 December 2009 12:04
To: Ontology Summit 2010 discussion
Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Fwd: Ontologist Aptitude Test?

Hello Joel,

 

Tests such as SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT (to name

a few), are national (US) *admission* tests (not just for NYS).

 

From the perspective of what already exists presently, we are

interested in knowing if there are *certification* guidelines/standards for

professional ontologists.

 

As an example--from another related profession--consider the

certifications offered by the IEEE Computer Society

(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/getcertified/home):

 

:: CSDA: Certified Software Development Associate

(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csda)

 

:: CSDP: Certified Software Development Professional

(http://www.computer.org/portal/web/certification)

 

Of course, we also know of various well-known software-related

companies which offer various forms of certification (e.g., Microsoft,

Oracle, Sun Microsystems, IBM, etc.)

 

Is there something like CSDA/CSDP for professional ontologists?

 

If you know answers to this question, please let us know, by:

 

(1) Taking the Content+Quality-Present survey when available; and/or

 

(2) Posting your comment on

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_PresentContent_CommunityInput

 

From the perspective of what we want for the future to look

like, we are interested in proposing guidelines/standards to

certifiy professional ontologists.

 

If you have suggestions, please post them on

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_PresentQuality_CommunityInput

 

Best,

 

            -Arturo

 

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Arturo Sánchez-Ruíz, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Computing
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Phone: +1-904-620-1314; Fax: +1-904-620-2988

email: asanchez_AT_unf.edu, arturo_AT_acm.org
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From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Joel Bender
Sent: Fri 12/18/2009 8:55 AM
To: Ontology Summit 2010 discussion
Subject: [ontology-summit] Fwd: Ontologist Aptitude Test?

Hi all,


I originally posted this to the ontolog-forum and Peter suggested that I post it here as well.  I thought of these questions after yesterday's presentations, but wasn't sure if it should have been in this list or that list.  Problem solved, they're in both!

> We are regularly confronted with tests at the end of an academic period (year, semester, or course).  In New York State we have a subject specific "Regents Exams" and "Scholastic Aptitude Tests" or a "Scholastic Assessment Tests" (they keep changing the name), at the end of 4-year degree programs we have "Graduate Record Exams".
>
> - What questions would you put on an OAT?
> - Would a "systems architect" be able to sufficiently answer the question?
> - Could a "programmer"?
> - Could an "analyst"?
>
> Less specifically, is there a base line set of knowledge (vocabulary, history, symbol/graph interpretation, compositional/decompositional techniques) that you would expect every ontologist to know?

As (memberOf @me (union (programmerClass analystClass systemsArchitect))) I could easily think of questions pertaining to set theory, graph theory, unification (Prolog) and syntax (RDF, N3, OWL).  But that wouldn't be treating it any differently than gallimaufry of Mathematics and Computer Science.  What about nomenclature, taxonomy, etymology, hermeneutics (or anything else in linguistics)?


Joel


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