Community Profile for NCOR (HNG)
By / Date: BarrySmith / 2005.11.07
Last Updated: 07 Nov 2005 12:40:35 EST; (HNH)
- Community (name): National Center for Ontological Research (HNI)
- Date Established: October 27, 2005 (HNJ)
- Key Stakeholders: Academic, government and industrial organizations interested in promoting the application of the scientific method in ontology development and use (HNK)
- Constituency: all adult developers and users of ontologies (HNL)
- Domain: all (HNM)
- Mission / Charter: (see http://ncor.us) (HNN)
- The goal of NCOR is to promote the application of scientific methods in ontology research in the United States (PGB)
- by establishing cross-disciplinary networks among those individuals and groups involved in ontological research and applications in such a way as to foster a high degree of interaction at the four levels of infrastructure, content, methodology and application (PGC)
- by fostering, through challenge evaluations and other methodologies, objective measures for the quality (usefulness, useability, reliability ...) of ontologies (PGD)
- by developing, testing and promoting best practices in ontology research and development, including conformity to reference ontologies and to top-level integration ontologies (PGE)
- by developing partnerships with institutions in academia, industry and government designed to enable the sharing of expertise and to consolidate best practices (PGF)
- by organizing and strengthening educational and training programs in ontology (PGG)
- by organizing outreach programs designed to promote greater public awareness of the importance of high-level ontology research. (PGH)
- With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: (HNO)
- Medium Term Goal: establishment of genuine evolutionary mechanisms leading to stepwise improvement of ontologies and to attrition of poor-quality ontology initiatives (HNP)
- Short Term Goal: to create an awareness of the need for quality assurance especially of the content ontologies and of the methods to achieve it (HNQ)
- Deliverables within the next 6 months: to disseminate the goals of NCOR (HNR)
- Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): focus on scientific method, on quality of ontology content, and on objective methodologies for ontology evaluation; no restriction on domain (HNS)
- What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: all of the above (HNT)
- Additional Remarks: (HNU)
- Contact: BarrySmith <phismith-at-buffalo.edu> (HNV)
