ConferenceCall 2008 11 13/WhatsInStore

What's In Store: for Ontolog Planning ConferenceCall_2008_11_13 Reference    (1OGE)

Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Event, Projects & Initiatives    (1OGF)

• Candidate speaker and panelist (semi-invited already; no dates set)    (1OGG)
  • SuzannaLewis    (1OGH)
  • DeborahMcGuinness    (1OGI)
  • NatashaNoy    (1OGJ)
  • BillAndersen    (1OGK)
  • AzamatAbdoullaev [PeterYim / 2007.10.25 - no response received]    (1OGL)
• (the following were added during ISWC & FOIS 2008 =ppy/2008.11.13)    (1OGM)
  • TimFinin (UMBC)    (1OGN)
  • IanHorrocks (Oxford)    (1OGO)
  • StefanDecker    (1OGP)
  • EnricoMotta (KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)    (1OGQ)
  • RudiStuder (AIFB, Karlsruhe)    (1OGR)
  • JohnGiannandre (Metaweb) - Freebase    (1OGS)
  • BijanParsia & Pavel Klinov (Univ. of Manchester) - "Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach"    (1OGT)
  • AldoGangemi    (1OGU)
  • PeterMika - VoCamp    (1OGV)
  • JohannaSeibt (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) - "Non-Transitive Mereology on Processes: Some Applications of General Process Theory in the Theory of Interactions" - (already scheduled for Prof. Seibt to give us a talk on ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 with MichaelGruninger chairing the session)    (1OGY)

• Ongoing, past & candidate mini-programs or mini-series    (1OGZ)
•    (1OJD)
  • Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ]    (1OH0)
    • candidate: DennisThomas - Mark 3 knowledge platform (#proprietary)    (1OIU)
    • candidate: Freebase / Metaweb#    (1OJE)
  • Ontologies in Emergency Response [ RexBrooks / BobSmith ]    (1OH1)
  • EmergingOntologyShowcase (content) [ KenBaclawski / MikeBennett ]    (1OH2)
    • NigelCollier / SonDoan - BioCaster - http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp/    (1OH3)
    • JohnGraybeal / LuisBermudez / CarlosRueda - Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project - http://marinemetadata.org    (1OH5)
    • PatCassidy - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO    (1OH8)

•    (1OH9)
  • SemanticWiki [ HaroldSolbrig / LiDing / MaxVoelkel / PeterYim / SebastianSchaffert ]    (1OHA)
    • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SemanticWiki/Prep    (1OQ3)
  • Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel mini-series [ KenBaclawski / MichelleRaymond / MikeDean / PaulBuitelaar / PeterYim ]    (1OHB)
    • one session scheduled for ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 - possibly with a panel showcasing 4 different EU efforts in ontology respositories/libraries and related work    (1OHC)
  • candidates:    (1OHD)
    • AlexGarcia - collaborative ontology development    (1OHE)
    • LarKC [DougLenat / MikeDean]    (1OHF)
    • OKKAM, the EU ontology repository effort [DougLenat]    (1OHG)
    • DSpace    (1OHH)
    • SchemaWeb - [MikeDean/2007.10.09] ...another repository is http://schemaweb.info.    (1OHI)
    • UCore (DoD) [...?... LeoObrst]    (1OHJ)
    • OpenCyc WebServices [LeoObrst / 2008.08.15]    (1OHK)
    • "Open Repositories 2008" (DigitalLibrary) folks [LeoObrst / 2007.10.09] - Ontology Repository at University of Manchester [MikeDean / 2008.04.23] - http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/    (1OHQ)
  • Topics - Research areas and Implementation approaches    (1OHS)
    • Business Processes and Policies for Managing a Ontology Repository    (1OHT)
    • Storage and Access of Knowledge in an Ontology Repository    (1OHU)
    • Importing, Validation, Versioning of Ontologies in a Repository    (1OHV)
    • Mapping and Merging over Ontologies and Upper Ontologies within a Repository [NatashaNoy, Cliff Josyln - suggested by FrankOlken]    (1OHX)
    • Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information    (1OI0)

• Ontology Summits [ NIST / Ontolog / NCOR / ... ]    (1OI1)
  • candidate-1 for 2009 - proposed: Training and Education [BarrySmith]    (1OI2)
  • candidate-2 for 2009 - proposed: Ontolgies as the Next Generation of Information Standards [ SteveRay / PeterYim / LeoObrst / BarrySmith / LaurentLiscia (OASIS)]    (1OI3)

• (repeat?) successful past programs    (1OI4)
  • DatabaseAndOntology [MatthewWest]    (1OI5)
  • OntologyMeasurementEvaluation [SteveRay]    (1OI6)
  • OKMDS [NASA / Ontolog / KMWG]    (1OI7)

• (continue?) past programs    (1OI8)
  • OntologizingOntolog    (1OI9)
    • OntologTaxoThesaurus [ BobSmith / DeniseBedford ]    (1OIA)
    • during FOIS-2008, JohnBateman indicated interest in the possibility of doing something with the Ontolog body of knowledge    (1OIB)
  • ONION [ CarlMattocks ]    (1OIC)

• Candidates:    (1OID)
  • KenBaclawski: discussion on "what needs to be done!"    (1OIE)
  • SvenVanPoucke: feature "Ask the experts" series - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2008-08/msg00000.html    (1OIG)

•    (1OJN)
  • mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers"    (1OII)
    • candidate champions: MichaelGruninger / ConradBock / TillMossakowski ]    (1OIJ)
    • candidate presentation: Aditya Kalyanpur / Kavitha Srinivas (IBM) [ChrisWelty] - OWL reasoner called SHER (now has a public demofor medical ontologies) - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html & http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/ - (# IBM Alphaworks)    (1OJF)
    • candidate presentation: Hans Chalupsky on PowerLoom http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/    (1OJP)
    • build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009    (1OJO)

•    (1OIS)
  • ... (more) Open Ontology Tools    (1OIT)

• Emerging ontological work products - application    (1OIV)
  • ... (tackle in the Duane / Kurt) Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions    (1OIW)

• collaborations    (1OIX)
  • NIST    (1OIY)
  • NCOR    (1OIZ)
  • CEW    (1OJ0)
  • NASA    (1OJ1)
  • NARA (?)    (1OJ2)
  • (I)AOA (emerging)    (1OJ3)
  • OASIS    (1OJ4)
  • STI-Int'l    (1OJ5)
  • DERI    (1OJ6)

• project and initiative (sharing CWE)    (1OJ7)
  • OOR    (1OJ8)
  • BSP    (1OJ9)
  • (I)AOA    (1OJA)

Remarks    (1OJB)

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