[ontology-summit] 2011 Ontology Summit

["Matthew West" <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Steve,

 

I attach a couple of pages from my forthcoming book “Developing High Quality Data Models”. Substitute ontology for data model and the same argument applies. The benefits come from improving and automating decision making through fit-for-purpose information to support those decisions.

 

Justifying ontology development (or any other contributor to information quality) is relatively easy once you can get to the decisions being made, where there are problems with the information that supports those decisions (like it’s missing).

 

Some of the areas you mention below – particularly Enterprise Architecture – are important because of the way they support information quality (that in the end is where much of the value of Enterprise Architecture comes from). Ontology is important in Enterprise Architecture because it supports consistency and hence interoperability across systems, particularly through integration data models and master and reference data.

 

Even inferencing is important because it provides the answers to questions that will support decisions, whether it is identifying a possible terrorist, or identifying incomplete master data entries.

 

I mention this because I do not really see it below.

 

Regards

 

Matthew West                           

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From: ontolog-invitation-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-invitation-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Ray
Sent: 09 December 2010 00:51
To: ontolog-invitation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ontolog-invitation] Invitation to a brainstorming call for the 2011 Ontology Summit

 

Colleagues,

            The time has come for us to finalize our plans for the 2011 Ontology Summit. The organizing committee has identified a base theme for the summit, and we would now like to invite you to participate in a conference call on December 16th to brainstorm on refining and finalizing this theme. Developing details (including dial-in information) are available on the session page at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_12_16

 

Overall theme: Making the case for Ontology

This summit will collect and curate a small number of perspectives and case studies for which we will strive to assemble ROI information (monetary and otherwise) as well as statements of the problem and solution approach, in support of providing solid material to draw upon when making the business case for both the application as well as the R&D investment in Ontology.

Subthemes – Groups of participants making the case in the following domains:

•           Healthcare informatics and Biomedical

•           Cyberphysical systems

•           Cloud (massively parallel) computing

•           Traditional engineering applications (civil, mechanical, aerospace…)

•           Software engineering, knowledge engineering

•           Enterprise and system architecture

•           Government applications

•           <please suggest any more you feel have some good examples>

 

While the original premise was for making the case in a return-on-investment basis, the suggestion has been made that this question could also be framed in terms of making the case:

•           For research investment

•           For using an ontological approach compared to other technical approaches (i.e. on its technical, rather than business, merits)

•           To the general public, to increase awareness and understanding

•           From a business perspective (the original suggestion)

 

Possible metrics include:

•           Value in terms of productivity, value added, and other benefits

•           Financial ROI

•           Technical quality

•           Risk

 

Thanks in advance for your interest and involvement. I think we have a promising topic.

 

-           On behalf of the Ontology Summit Organizing Committee

 

 

 

 

 

Steven R. Ray, Ph.D.

Distinguished Research Fellow

Carnegie Mellon University

NASA Research Park

Building 23 (MS 23-11)

P.O. Box 1
Moffett Field, CA 94305-0001

Email:    steve.r.ray@xxxxxxxxxx

Phone: (650) 587-3780

Cell:      (202) 316-6481

 

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