Dear Mills,
I would expect most large organizations to have someone somewhere using
ontologies in some form. Most likely is as part of an integration or master
data management initiative, but use of ontologies in expert systems is also
likely. Smaller organizations (not particularly having integration problems)
might make use of ontologies in expert systems, but this will be because
they have a specialist need for one.
You are not going to find many/any large organizations with an ontology
department, or a chief ontologist. (01)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mills Davis
> Sent: 16 March 2013 12:05
> To: steve.ray@xxxxxxxxxx; Leo Obrst; Denise Bedford; John Sowa
> Cc: Ontology Summit 2013 discussion
> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] How big is the community of organizations
> doing some work with ontologies?
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I just received a query from the folks at Gartner asking what percentage
of
> large corporations and government agencies currently are making some use
of
> ontologies in either a research or production context.
>
> I am interested in learning your thoughts about an answer and welcome
> contributions from other members of the Ontolog community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mills Davis
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Steve Ray <steve.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yuriy,
> > I agree with Peter that we don't want to go back to trying to define
> > "ontology". As he mentioned, we had an entire Ontology Summit series
> > dedicated to just that challenge, and agreed in the end that rather
> > than fruitlessly trying to get everyone to agree on a single
> > definition, to recognize that there are many dimensions to the
> > concept, and artifacts that are called ontologies lie along a spectrum
> for each of those definitions.
> > (Ref.
> > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique).
> > Please take a look at this link.
> >
> >
> > - Steve
> >
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yuriy
> > Milov
> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 1:03 PM
> > To: Ontology Summit 2013 discussion
> > Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] {hackathon-clinics} Next steps for the
> > Hackathon-Clinics Activities
> >
> > Thanks Peter,
> >
> > My quick re-definition an "Ontology" term from there:
> >
> > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Intrinsic_A
> > spects _Of_Ontology_Evaluation_Synthesis#nid3K8P
> >
> > is the next:
> >
> > (Semantic Web begin)
> >
> > Ontology solves something that is a problem.
> > An ontology has a n:worth.
> > A n:worth is measured by the n:effectiveness.
> > Effectiveness helps something that is a n:solving.
> >
> > (Semantic Web end)
> >
> > Please fell free to grab an ontology of this definition of "Ontology"
> > here http://www.ddtor.com/1.htm
> >
> > Just change the "mortal Socrates" ontology by the body above :)
> >
> >
> > On 3/15/2013 3:17 PM, Peter Yim wrote:
> >> Yuri,
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. The natural language write-ups pertinent to this Summit's theme of
> >> "Ontology Evaluation" can be found under:
> >>
> >> OntologySummit2013 focus -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013#nid3IZE
> >>
> >> Track-A Mission -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Intrinsic_
> >> A spects_Of_Ontology_Evaluation_Synthesis#nid3K8S
> >>
> >> Track-B Mission -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Extrinsic_
> >> A
> >> spects_Of_Ontology_Evaluation_Synthesis#nid3KA5
> >>
> >> Track-C Mission -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Building_O
> >> n tologies_To_Meet_Evaluation_Criteria_Synthesis#nid3K9J
> >>
> >> Track-D Mission -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013_Software_E
> >> n
> >> vironments_For_Evaluating_Ontologies_Synthesis#nid3KA0
> >>
> >> 2. As for "what is an ontology?", you might try the
> >> OntologySummit2007 Communique -
> >> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Communique
> >>
> >>
> >> ... I'd try something easier first! :)
> >>
> >>
> >> Good luck! =ppy
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Yuriy Milov <ymilov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Thanks Peter,
> >>>
> >>> I am back to [ontology-dev] list.
> >>>
> >>> Regarding a personal wiki-page: it would be great if
> >>> OntologySummit2013 participants publish their short abstracts
> >>> devoted the main topic - the Ontology Evaluation issue.
> >>>
> >>> I would also very appriciate is someone try to make a short
> >>> definition (in ACE language) what is "Ontology" (please surraund it
> >>> by the temporary breaks for my test parser. Test it here
> >>> http://www.ddtor.com/1.htm (if the definition can be an ontology).
> >>> The next defenition produce correct OWL file:
> >>>
> >>> (Semantic Web begin)
> >>>
> >>> Ontology is a good thing.
> >>> Ontologist is a person who builds an ontology.
> >>>
> >>> (Semantic Web end)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Yuri
> >>>
> >>> On 3/15/2013 1:25 PM, Peter Yim wrote:
> >>>> Thank you Yuri.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> [YM] Peter, if you don't mind I will use my wiki page as an
> >>>>> example for this period of time (see the last node there)
> >>>>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?YuriyMilov#nid3OR0
> >>>> [ppy] please go ahead. That way you can update and your posts can
> >>>> point to them (given that you cannot update a message in the
> >>>> mailing list archive.)
> >>>>
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