Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011: Communique draft review sess

[Ali Hashemi <ali@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I liked the direction that Matthew W and Mike B’s contributions pointed towards. Here’s a rough draft which is a variation on the aforementioned themes employing a slight deviation from the skeleton John Sowa proposed above. The phrasing needs to be refined, but it might be a start:

 

> Every person, organization or system in interacting with the
> world access (at the very least) an internal ontology – the things presumed to exist in the world and how they behave. Indeed, these very assumptions pervade
> and underpin our deliberations, inform our decisions and ultimately guide our actions.
> In large socio-technical systems, such as companies or organizations, each
> person, each technological artefact and system carries with it their own view
> of the relevant world. Reconciling and streamlining these fragments\, means
> understanding and reconciling the employed, often tacit ontologies.
>  
> Growing complexity and a need for smarter use of resources
> and solutions that cut across silos, means that it has become ever important to
> make explicit these implicit ontologies.
>  Concurrently, advances in computing, networking technologies
> and the Internet means that it is possible to fruitfully leverage computational
> ontology to address an increasing array of socio-technical problems. Moreover, in
> recent years, we have witnessed the increased maturation and transition of
> ontology from academia to industry and government. The time is ripe to know
> what you know and share it with others.
>  
> Right now, [[examples of what ppl are doing that demonstrate the above claims...]]

Best,

Ali 

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or to put this another way, your systems all have ontologies
anyway, but how are you managing these? And did you know that
with formal management of ontologies comes a wealth of new
opportunities for what you can do with your information assets?

Mike

On 07/04/2011 07:16, Matthew West wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> How about something like:
>
> Ontology is like the air we breathe. In information systems it is all around
> us, but we often do not notice it. However, if there are problems with it
> can choke us.
>
> Regards
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-
>> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F. Sowa
>> Sent: 07 April 2011 06:55
>> To: Michael F Uschold
>> Cc: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
>> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2011: Communique draft
>> review session - Thu 2011.04.07.
>>
>> On 4/7/2011 1:20 AM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
>>> Did you get a chance to put together the introduction paragraphs?
>> I'm still working on it.
>>
>> As you may have noticed, I can write 3 paragraphs very quickly in
>> response to an email note.  But trying to think of a good "hook"
>> for a title of an article or an opening paragraph of the article
>> is extremely difficult.
>>
>> I'll sleep on it.  If I can think of anything when I wake up, I'll
>> type it up.  But right now, I can't think of what to say.
>>
>> Exercise for the readers:
>>
>>    1. Can anybody think of some idea that would really grab the readers'
>>       attention -- i.e., the readers we want to reach.
>>
>>    2. It's not necessary to phrase that idea in a catchy way.  The first
>>       thing that comes to mind is rarely a good hook, but it can be a
>>       starting point to start the thinking process.
>>
>>    3. The second paragraph should be the "anecdote", which develops the
>>       idea.  That could consist of one or more examples of promising
>>       applications for ontology, along the lines we discussed in our
>>       previous telecon.
>>
>>    4. Then the third paragraph generalizes the examples into a principle
>>       that could be applied to many things similar to the ones given
>>       in the anecdote(s).
>>
>> Notice that I just wrote up the material in this note very quickly.
>> That is because I was talking about something that I had thought
>> about years ago.
>>
>> But as I said in earlier telecons, my mind is a blank when it comes
>> to selling ontology.  I can write pages and pages *about* ontology,
>> but I don't really know how to sell it.
>>
>> John
>>
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