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[ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2013: session-10 - Software Environmen

To: Ontology Summit 2013 <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:44:20 -0700
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(subject line typo corrected)    (01)


Re: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_21    (02)


Dear Colleagues,    (03)


You are cordially invited to participate at the ongoing Ontology
Summit 2013. Our theme for the Summit this year is: "Ontology
Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle." Coming up next Thursday
(Mar-21) is our 10th virtual panel session, when we will look at more
exemplary Software Environments, Systems and Tools and how they
address Ontology Evaluation and Quality. ... RSVP (details below)!    (04)

***Attention:*** Please take special note on the start time of this
event - 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CET / 16:30 GMT/UTC -  as
the US will be on daylight saving (summer) time on this day, while the
EU will still be on standard (winter) time!
 ... For participants from the EU, for example, this session  will
start an hour earlier than usual, whereas for those from the US, the
start-time will be the same as previous session  (but unlike last
week's session because did tweak the start time to accommodate our EU
colleagues.)    (05)


****************** Headlines ***********************    (06)

Please join us this Thursday and most of the Thursdays in the next
month-and-a-half, when we will be featuring virtual panel sessions
every week, as part of the Ontology Summit 2013 program:    (07)

*Thu 21 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-10 - Track D: Software
Environments for Evaluating Ontologies-II - Co-chairs: Dr. Michael Denny
& Mr. Peter Yim - see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_21    (08)

*Thu 28 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-11 - Getting the
"hackathon," "clinics" and related activities going
- Co-chairs: Mr. Mike Dean & Professor Ken Baclawski
- see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_28    (09)

*Thu 4 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-12 - Synthesis-II
- Co-chairs: Dr. Matthew West & Professor Michael Gruninger
- see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_04    (010)

*Thu 11 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-13 - "Communique Draft Review"
- Co-chairs: Dr. Amanda Vizedom & Dr. Fabian Neuhaus
- see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_11    (011)

*Thu 18 Apr 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-13 - "Final Communique Review"
- Co-chairs: Dr. Fabian Neuhaus  & Dr. Amanda Vizedom - see
developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_04_18    (012)

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* between our Jan-17 launch of the Ontology Summit, and end Apr-2012,
we are planning to run virtual panel sessions every Thursday at the
same time window, ~ 2 Hrs, starting 9:30am PDT / 12:30pm EDT
/ 6:30pm CEST / 5:30pm BST / 16:30 UTC (unless otherwise specified,
like this week, when DST is in transition) ... please mark your calendars.    (014)

*Register your attendance* by emailing <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> off-line
or register yourself directly to the wiki session page. Please specify
the date or name of the session(s) you are registering for (your
affiliation too, if you are not already a member of the community.)
... RSVP    (015)


****** Session Details ******    (016)

OntologySummit2013: Virtual Panel Session-10 - Thu 2013-03-21    (017)

Summit Theme: "Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle"    (018)

Session Topic:
   "Software Environments for Evaluating Ontologies - II"    (019)

* Session Chairs:
     Dr. Michael Denny (MITRE)  & Mr. Peter Yim (CIM3; ONTOLOG)    (020)


Panelists / Briefings:    (021)

* Mr. AdamPease (Articulate Software)
  - "The Sigma Knowledge Engineering Environment"    (022)

* Prof. Dr. TillMossakowski (University of Bremen)
  - "Ontohub.org - a web platform for distributed and heterogeneous ontologies"    (023)

* Dr. TaniaTudorache (Stanford-BMIR)
  - "WebProtege and BioPortal as Infrastructures for Ontology Evaluation"    (024)

* Professor MichelDumontier (Carleton University)
  - "Evaluation of ontology-powered scientific research as a means to
assess and improve ontology quality"    (025)

* Mr. KingsleyIdehen (OpenLink Software)
  - "Ontology life cycles and Linked Open Data (LOD)"    (026)


Abstract:    (027)

This is our 9th Ontology Summit, a joint initiative by NIST, Ontolog,
NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD with the support of our co-sponsors. The
theme adopted for this Ontology Summit is: "Ontology Evaluation Across
the Ontology Lifecycle."    (028)

Currently, there is no agreed methodology for development of
ontologies, and there are no universally agreed metrics for ontology
evaluation. At the same time, everybody agrees that there are a lot of
badly engineered ontologies out there, thus people use -- at least
implicitly -- some criteria for the evaluation of ontologies.    (029)

During this OntologySummit, we seek to identify best practices for
ontology development and evaluation. We will consider the entire
lifecycle of an ontology -- from requirements gathering and analysis,
through to design and implementation. In this endeavor, the Summit
will seek collaboration with the software engineering and knowledge
acquisition communities. Research in these fields has led to several
mature models for the software lifecycle and the design of
knowledge-based systems, and we expect that fruitful interaction among
all participants will lead to a consensus for a methodology within
ontological engineering. Following earlier Ontology Summit practice,
the synthesized results of this season's discourse will be published
as a Communique.    (030)

At the Launch Event on 17 Jan 2013, the organizing team provided an
overview of the program, and how we will be framing the discourse
around the theme of of this OntologySummit. Today's session is one of
the events planned.    (031)

In this 10th virtual panel session of the Summit, we have invited the
stewards of some exemplary ontology software tools and environments
out there to join us on the panel. They will share with us their work,
experience and insights - particularly on how the software
environments/systems/tools they represent, support evaluating
intrinsic aspects and extrinsic aspects of ontologies, and how they
help assure quality across the lifecycle of the development (of the
ontology or the ontology-driven application). We will also hear about
what they think are the major obstacles now, toward quality
excellence, relevant work they are embarking on, and wish lists of
what have yet to be done in term of improving ontology quality.    (032)

We are also expecting to be "officially" launching the
OntologySummit2013 Survey of Software Support for Ontology Quality and
Fitness, which we alluded to earlier, at this session.    (033)


******************    (034)

These sessions, like all Ontolog virtual events, are open and free of
charge. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have
something to contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details on
the session pages, to which the hyperlink is given above, where you
will find session agenda, conference call dial-in, slides and other
pertinent information. Feel free to pass this invitation along to
colleagues who may also find these sessions to be of interest.    (035)

*RSVP* by emailing Peter Yim at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline (or add
yourself directly to the session page if you are already an Ontolog or
Ontology Summit community member) so that we can prepare enough
resources to support everyone. [Please state clearly the date of the
session you are registering for in your email.] ... All respondents
will be subscribed (if they aren't already so) to the
[ontology-summit] mailing list so they are participate in the virtual
discourse.    (036)

These sessions will be recorded and made available in a publicly
accessible archive. Therefore, before participating, please make sure
you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).    (037)


Regards.  =ppy    (038)

For and on behalf of the    (039)

OntologySummit2013 session-10 Co-chairs,
Michael Denny & Peter Yim    (040)

and Members of the
OntologySummit2013 Organizing Committee    (041)


p.s. full proceedings of the previous sessions (slides,
chat-transcript, audio recording, etc.) are all  available online now.
They are accessible from the "Archives" section on their respective
session pages, which you can find listed under "What's New" (near the
top) on the Ontology Summit 2013 homepage -
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013
--    (042)

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