Community Profile for Ontolog (HML)
By / Date: PeterYim / 2005.11.06
Last Updated: 2005.11.06-08:38am PST (HMM)
- Community (name): Ontolog (a.k.a. OntologForum) (HMN)
- Date Established: April 2002 (HMO)
- Key Stakeholders: 3 co-conveners (see contact below), Volunteers making up of Ontologists, Standards Committee members (esp. in XML), CIM3 (hosting the community's collaborative work environment since its inception.) (HMP)
- Constituency: Open, international community. Anyone interested can participate, either as active members or as observers. Thought leaders in the domain have been participating by invitation. (HMQ)
- Domain: formal and informal ontology; application; strategy and policy; adoption & standardization (HMR)
- Mission / Charter: Ontolog (a.k.a. Ontolog Forum) Charter: (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB) (HMS)
- Ontolog is an open, international, virtual community of practice, whose membership will: (PHB)
- Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the development and application of both formal and informal ontologies. (PHC)
- Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort, as well as to the broader domain of eBusiness standardization efforts. (PHD)
- Strive to advance the field of ontological engineering and semantic technologies, and to help move them into main stream applications. (PHE)
- With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's: (HMT)
- Medium Term Goal: advance the science and art of ontological engineering and semantic technologies; moving them into the mainstream through adoption by standards bodies (HMU)
- Short Term Goal: provide an open, non-commercial CoP space for the community at large; educate and evangelize ontological engineering and semantic technologies through regular community events. (HMV)
- Deliverables within the next 6 months: monthly invited speaker sessions; monthly scheduled discussion sessions; ad hoc evangelistic activities (reports, presentations, position papers with recommendations, ...etc.); joint activities to provide input into SICoP, DRM-IT2, HITOP, ... etc. (HMW)
- Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): (HMX)
- practically no out-of-pocket cost to participate (HMY)
- adamant about collaboration, sharing and open knowledge (HMZ)
- activities are community driven; we are neutral, open, and we are not answerable to any authority or institutional structure, except for (explicitly) our charter & IPR policy, and (implicitly) our professional integrity. (HN0)
- What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: (HN1)
- our open collaborative attitude - we can and will gladly work with other communities sharing similar attitudes and goals (HN2)
- our established infrastructure and community membership of a lot of the key players in the domain (HN3)
- our agility: we can put together a fairly substantial virtual event in short order (say, 2 weeks.) (HN4)
- Additional Remarks: (HN5)
- besides our prime mission around ontologies, some have found our community, our collaborative work environment and our processes to be a best practice example on how the Internet can be leveraged to help bootstrap collective intelligence. (HN7)
- Contact: any of the 3 co-conveners - PeterYim, KurtConrad, LeoObrst (HN6)
