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Re: [ontology-summit] An Intro to ISO 15926

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From: Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:50:25 +0000
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Ron, Anatoly, all ...    (01)

Sorry I couldn't be in the session earlier this week or participate in
the dialog until now.    (02)

The FIATECH reference Ron linked to is the one authored by Gordon
Rachar, consolidating all the inputs from the many participants in and
around the FIATECH and POSC Caesar projects from 2005 to 2011 - so it
is both valuable and readable as an introduction and overview -
comprehensive and (deliberately) not technically detailed - full of
analogies.    (03)

For those who need to understand the modelling (basis and approach)
the links Anatoly provides are all good too. Plenty of room for debate
and interpretation at the philosophical level.    (04)

For most non-modelling / business-domain experts the main document is
a "how to" mapping methodology - whose advice is very much "DON'T"
attempt to read the parts of the standard without specific reason to
do so. ie "Follow this procedure and look up what you need to know in
the Reference Data Library" in order to achieve practical compliant
representation of your data in ISO15926 terms.    (05)

The Compliance Guide and Mapping Methodology have been through 3
revisions on FIATECH and PCA projects - and an "authoritative" version
is being consolidated as part of the JORD (Joint Operational Reference
Data) project, where the first version has already been published and
a second is in progress.    (06)

Regards
Ian Glendinning    (07)

2012/3/2 Anatoly Levenchuk <ailev@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> We at TechInvestLab have experience of introducing of ISO 15926 to general
> public (not professional ontologists) in self-education mode. It required
> very special reading sequence (in Russian this is in more details at
> http://dot15926.livejournal.com/27293.html):
>
> I. Theory for general understanding.
>
> 1. Read a book of Chris Partridge "Business Objects: Re-Engineering for
> Re-Use"
> http://www.borosolutions.co.uk/research/content/files/books/BusObj-Printed-2
> 0050531-with-watermark.pdf/at_download/file (while this book has no
> references to ISO 15926 or any other language or software or standard). This
> is mandatory reading for all beginners. In Russian we have video about 4D vs
> 3D ontology that we recommend as addition for 7th Chapter of this book. Try
> to find something equal to support 4D understanding (it is very tricky).
>
> 2. Only then you should read "An Introduction to ISO 15926" issued by
> FIATECH consortium --
> http://fiatech.org/images/stories/techprojects/project_deliverables/iso-intr
> o-ver1.pdf
>
> 3. Then you should read first part of book of Matthew West "Developing High
> Quality Data Models":
> http://www.amazon.com/Developing-High-Quality-Data-Models/dp/0123751063
> (second part of this book is HQDM specific data model, you need not to read
> it. First part is mandatory).
>
> 4. Read thesis of Andries van Renssen "Gellish. A Generic Extensible
> Ontological Language":
> http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:de26132b-6f03-41b9-b882-c74b7e34a07
> d/its_renssen_20050914.pdf
> This is also not about ISO 15926 and not even 4D but there are many
> interesting things about relations and table format. Take ideas about table
> data representation and usage of ontology in engineering.  Take no ontology
> from this book (except very good set of relations).
>
> This is about 1200 pages (about 4 month for 4 hours/day or reading).
>
> Many people stops here. This is general education in engineering approach to
> ontology.
>
> II. Now you are ready to mastering knowledge of ISO 15926 as a standard.
>
> 1. Read ISO 15926 Part 2 (this is upper ontology, 201 type of entities). 241
> pages.
>
> 2. Read 47 pages of draft of ISO 15926 Part 6 (RDL management).
>
> 3. Take  .15926 Editor (freeware, http://techinvestlab.ru/dot15926Editor) .
> Have fun browsing PCA RDL (about 2.7mln triples for near 50000 concepts like
> "centrifugal pump" -- you can prefer do it online from SPARQL endpoint or
> load from OWL file that take about 1 minute 20 second on a notebook with our
> Editor). Spend not too much time for this. This is like reading
> Encyclopedia, only to get understanding.
>
> 4. Read ISO 15926 Part 7 (templates in logic language Plan 9), 126 pages and
> Part 8 (templates in OWL).
>
> 5. Now try to see examples from http://15926.info/ -- now you have a chance
> to understand it. We have several examples of engineering data in .15926
> Editor samples directory. See also sample diagrams on
> http://techinvestlab.ru/iso15926_sample_diagrams. Up to this moment you will
> find multiple examples from different sources.
>
> 6. Read "ISO 15926 outside" methodology for reference data engineering:
> http://techinvestlab.ru/files/RefDataEng/RefDataEngr_ver_2_25feb11.doc -- 18
> pages.
>
> 7. Subscribe for community "ISO 15926" в LinkedIn and read discussions. Read
> http://iringug.org (implementations hub).
>
> This is about 500 pages and many diagrams to understand. 2 month.
>
> Most of people stops here. If you are not scared, proceed to real thing.
>
> III. Now you are ready to do you first ISO 15926 systems federation project.
> Join somebody with ISO 15926 experience to supervise you modeling activity
> and tool chain mastering.
> Welcome to the ontology-based systems federation community of practice! You
> have "yellow belt" qualification.
> After 3 year you will have "black belt" master level and can participate at
> Modeling Meeting.
>
> This is valid for general public. I think that people from Ontology Summit
> can do this self-education really fast!
>
> Best regards,
> Anatoly
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-
>>  summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Wheeler
>>  Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:54 PM
>>  To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
>>  Subject: [ontology-summit] An Intro to ISO 15926
>>
>>
>>  http://fiatech.org/images/stories/techprojects/project_deliverables/iso-
>>  intro-ver1.pdf
>>
>>  I know that this is a familiar document to many here. Some people here
> are
>>  mentioned in it.
>>
>>  For those who have not read it, I recommend the glossary for its tone and
>>  lighthearted approach to defining things.
>>
>>  I scanned the whole document which was very readable but got the biggest
>>  kick out of the glossary.
>>
>>  Any document on Ontology that quotes Lewis Carrol and uses Colossus and
>>  Guardian as examples of interoperability "ISO 15926 intends to achieve
>>  (minus, of course, the taking-over-the-world-and-enslaving-humanity
>>  part.)" and uses categorization of Weird Al to illustrate a technical
> challenge,
>>  is "must" reading.
>>
>>  Enjoy.
>>
>>  Ron
>>
>>  --
>>  Ron Wheeler
>>  President
>>  Artifact Software Inc
>>  email: rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>  skype: ronaldmwheeler
>>  phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102
>
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