OntologySummit2014 Launch Event - Thu 2014-01-16    (427T)

Abstract: Goals & Objectives    (43U8)

OntologySummit2014 Theme: "Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology"    (43U9)

This is our 9th OntologySummit, a joint initiative by NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD with the support of our co-sponsors.    (43UA)

Since the beginnings of the Semantic Web, ontologies have played key roles in the design and deployment of new semantic technologies. Yet over the years, the level of collaboration between the Semantic Web and Applied Ontology communities has been much less than expected. Within Big Data applications, ontologies appear to have had little impact.    (43UC)

This year's Ontology Summit is an opportunity for building bridges between the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Big Data, and Applied Ontology communities. On the one hand, the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Big Data communities can bring a wide array of real problems (such as performance and scalability challenges and the variety problem in Big Data) and technologies (automated reasoning tools) that can make use of ontologies. On the other hand, the Applied Ontology community can bring a large body of common reusable content (ontologies) and ontological analysis techniques. Identifying and overcoming ontology engineering bottlenecks is critical for all communities.    (43UG)

OntologySummit2014 will pose and address the primary challenges in these areas of interaction among the different communities. The Summit activities will bring together insights and methods from these different communities, synthesize new insights, and disseminate knowledge across field boundaries.    (43UI)

Following earlier Ontology Summit practice, the synthesized results of this season's discourse will be published as a Communique.    (43UJ)

See developing details at: OntologySummit2014 (homepage for this summit)    (43UK)

Agenda:    (43UL)

Ontology Summit 2014 Launch    (43UM)

Proceedings:    (43V6)

Please refer to the above    (43V7)

IM Chat Transcript captured during the session:    (43V8)

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	[8:54] PeterYim: Welcome to the    (444L)
	 = OntologySummit2014 Launch Event - Thu 2014-01-16 =    (444M)
	Summit Theme: OntologySummit2014: "Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology"    (427U)    (444N)
	Summit General Co-chairs: Professor MichaelGruninger & Dr. LeoObrst    (444O)
	Symposium Co-chairs - Dr. RamSriram & Professor TimFinin    (444P)
	Opening remarks from the leadership of the OntologySummit co-organizers:    (444Q)
	* NCO_NITRD - Dr. GeorgeStrawn
	* NIST - Dr. RamSriram
	* IAOA - Professor MichaelGruninger
	* NCBO - Professor MarkMusen
	* NCOR - Professor BarrySmith
	* ONTOLOG - Mr. PeterYim    (444R)
	Introducing our Champions and the OntologySummit2014 program:    (444S)
	* Track A: Common Reusable Semantic Content - Co-Champions: Mr. MikeBennett, Ms. AndreaWesterinen, Dr. GaryBergCross
	* Track B: Making use of Ontologies: Tools, Services, and Techniques - Co-Champions: Dr. ChristophLange, Professor AlanRector, ... 
	* Track C: Overcoming Ontology Engineering Bottlenecks - Co-Champions: Professor KrzysztofJanowicz, Professor PascalHitzler, Dr. MatthewWest     (43T3)
	* Track D: Tackling the Variety Problem in Big Data - Co-Champions: Professor KenBaclawski, ...    (444T)
	* Track E: Hackathon (and related activities) - Co-Champions: Mr. DanBrickley, Mr. AnatolyLevenchuk, ..., (Professor KenBaclawski)
	* Track F: Communique and Publications - Lead-Editors: Professor MichaelGruninger & Dr. LeoObrst; Co-champions: Dr. ToddSchneider, Ms. FrancescaQuattri
	* Track G: Community Resources (Library, Data Collection, Ontology Repository, etc.) - Co-champions: Dr. AmandaVizedom, Dr. OliverKutz    (444U)
	* Team R: Public Relations (includes Sponsor Relations & Website Development) - Co-champions: ___, Professor MarcelaVegetti, ..., (Dr. MatthewWest)
	* Team M: Program management (includes operations, logistics, production) - Co-champions: Mr. PeterYim, ...    (444V)
	Logistics:    (444W)
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	Attendees: AdamShepherd, AleksandraSojic, AmandaVizedom, AnatolyLevenchuk, AndreaWesterinen, 
	AnneThessen, BarrySmith, BiplabSarker, BobbinTeegarden, BruceSpencer, CarmenChui, ChristineKapp, 
	ChristophLange, DanCarey, DanGant, DanMcShan, DanBrickley, DanielMcShan, DennisWisnosky, 
	DennisPierson, EarlGlynn, EdBernot, ElieAbiLahoud, Emanuele, EricStephan, FabianNeuhaus, 
	FranLightsom, FrancescaQuattri, FrankOlken, FrankLoebe, GaryBergCross, HaroldBoley, JensOrtmann, 
	JoelSachs, JoelBender, JohnYanosy, JohnMcClure, JonathanBona, JuanGomezRomero, JulienCorman, 
	KenAllgood, KenBaclawski, KrzysztofJanowicz, LamarHenderson, LeoObrst, LesMorgan, LianaKiff, 
	LynneBaer, MarciaZeng, MarwanGhabin, MatthewWest, MatthewLange, MeganKatsumi, MichaelGruninger, 
	MichaelRiben, MikeBennett, MikeDean, NatalieMeyers, OliverKutz, PavithraKenjige, PeterYim, 
	QuentinReul, RamSriram, RexBrooks, Rishi, RobinMcEntire, ScottHills, SergeMaslyukov, SiewLam, 
	SimonSpero, SimonaCarini, SteveRay, Sub, SundayOjo,TerryLongstreth, TimFinin, ToddSchneider, 
	TomTinsley, TonySeale, VeruskaZamborlini, VictorAgroskin, Zhili, anonymous, uams-dbmi, wtm,    (4451)
	 == proceedings ==    (4452)
	[9:18] anonymous1 morphed into MarciaZeng    (4453)
	[9:19] PeterYim: Hello Marcia ... thanks for joining us today    (4454)
	[9:20] KrzysztofJanowicz: Hi    (4455)
	[9:20] anonymous1 morphed into DanMcShan    (4456)
	[9:21] EdBernot: Good day!    (4457)
	[9:25] anonymous1 morphed into AnneThessen    (4458)
	[9:26] anonymous2 morphed into CarmenChui    (4459)
	[9:26] anonymous1 morphed into VeruskaZamborlini    (445A)
	[9:27] anonymous1 morphed into SundayOjo    (445B)
	[9:29] SundayOjo: I am Prof Sunday Ojo, Executive Dean of faculty of ICT, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa    (445C)
	[9:30] JensOrtmann: Hello    (445D)
	[9:30] anonymous4 morphed into ChristineKapp    (445E)
	[9:30] anonymous4 morphed into LamarHenderson    (445F)
	[9:30] anonymous3 morphed into LesMorgan    (445G)
	[9:30] anonymous2 morphed into JoelSachs    (445H)
	[9:31] anonymous6 morphed into LianaKiff    (445I)
	[9:31] AmandaVizedom: Folks on the call: if you aren't actively talking, it would help if you would 
	mute yourself locally. We're getting lots of background sounds.    (445J)
	[9:31] anonymous5 morphed into DanGant    (445K)
	[9:31] JoelSachs: shouldn't have happened. messages out of order.    (445L)
	[9:31] anonymous1 morphed into JohnYanosy    (445M)
	[9:31] Matthew West morphed into MatthewWest    (445N)
	[9:32] DanMcShan morphed into DanielMcShan    (445O)
	[9:32] anonymous3 morphed into BobbinTeegarden    (445P)
	[9:32] anonymous1 morphed into GaryBergCross    (445Q)
	[9:32] MikeBennett: I have to leave at 2pm Eastern US Time FYI.    (445R)
	[9:32] anonymous2 morphed into AdamShepherd    (445S)
	[9:32] anonymous1 morphed into BruceSpencer    (445T)
	[9:32] anonymous4 morphed into SimonaCarini    (445U)
	[9:32] anonymous2 morphed into EarlGlynn    (445V)
	[9:32] anonymous1 morphed into RobinMcEntire    (445W)
	[9:33] anonymous1 morphed into EricStephan    (445X)
	[9:34] anonymous2 morphed into ToddSchneider    (445Y)
	[9:35] anonymous3 morphed into MichaelRiben    (445Z)
	[9:35] anonymous4 morphed into FrancescaQuattri    (4460)
	[9:35] anonymous2 morphed into JulienCorman    (4461)
	[9:35] anonymous1 morphed into uams-dbmi    (4462)
	[9:36] anonymous1 morphed into Juan Gomez-Romero    (4463)
	[9:36] anonymous2 morphed into QuentinReul    (4464)
	[9:36] anonymous3 morphed into SergeMaslyukov    (4465)
	[9:36] anonymous1 morphed into SimonSpero    (4466)
	[9:36] anonymous1 morphed into FabianNeuhaus    (4467)
	[9:34] PeterYim: == Professor MichaelGruninger & Dr. LeoObrst starts the session ...    (4468)
	[9:36] PeterYim: Dr. LeoObrst presenting an overview of the Summit and agenda of this session see 
	slides at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2014_01_16#nid43TE    (4469)
	[9:36] anonymous2 morphed into ElieAbiLahoud    (446A)
	[9:37] anonymous1 morphed into DanBrickley    (446B)
	[9:37] anonymous1 morphed into DennisPierson    (446C)
	[9:37] anonymous2 morphed into Emanuele    (446D)
	[9:38] anonymous1 morphed into DennisWisnosky    (446E)
	[9:40] anonymous1 morphed into MeganKatsumi    (446F)
	[9:42] anonymous morphed into Rishi    (446G)
	[9:42] anonymous morphed into wtm    (446H)
	[9:43] anonymous morphed into LynneBaer    (446I)
	[9:44] DennisPierson morphed into DennisPierson    (446J)
	[9:44] anonymous3 morphed into DanCarey    (446K)
	[9:47] PeterYim: == Remarks from the leadership of our co-organizers ...    (446L)
	[9:49] PeterYim: briefs from GeorgeStrawn (NCO_NITRD), RamSriram (NIST), MichaelGruninger (IAOA), 
	MarkMusen (NCBO), BarrySmith (NCOR), PeterYim (ONTOLOG) [9:50] anonymous morphed into MatthewLange    (446M)
	[9:56] anonymous morphed into TimFinin    (446N)
	[10:01] anonymous morphed into BarrySmith    (446O)
	[9:59] DennisWisnosky: How many members are in IAOA?    (446P)
	[10:02] FrankLoebe: @DennisWisnosky: Hi, it's ca. 150 members usually, often extending in years of 
	IAOA's flagship conference FOIS to more than 200    (446Q)
	[10:07] anonymous morphed into NatalieMeyers    (446R)
	[10:08] anonymous morphed into KenAllgood    (446S)
	[10:19] anonymous morphed into PavithraKenjige    (446T)
	[10:23] PeterYim: == Introducing the Champions and the OntologySummit2014 program ...    (446U)
	[10:23] anonymous morphed into LianaKiff    (446V)
	[10:30] Juan Gomez-Romero morphed into JuanGomezRomero    (446W)
	[10:36] GaryBergCross: Note, for the 2nd session of track A Content Reuse, John Sowa has agreed to be a speaker.    (446X)
	[10:36] MikeBennett: @Gary great!    (446Y)
	[10:37] GaryBergCross: On the site the Track A references have links to pages and documents.    (446Z)
	[10:36] anonymous morphed into LamarHenderson    (4470)
	[10:36] DanBrickley: does anyone have VNC working on OSX?    (4471)
	[10:47] PeterYim: @DanBrickley ... yes, I have vnc working on my Macbook Air ... I have been 
	successfully using "Chicken of the VNC (cotvnc)" as my vnc client there ( 
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ ) - see also: 
	http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CweAdmin/CollaborationToolSupport#nidAR3    (4472)
	[10:48] PeterYim: @DanBrickley ... your problem (with vnc) may be in your corporate firewall and not the viewer, though    (4473)
	[10:49] DanBrickley: I'm on home ISP. Can discuss later :)    (4474)
	[10:48] DanBrickley: thanks PeterYim. For today I'll present slides without seeing what you see.    (4475)
	[10:49] PeterYim: that's perfectly fine ... vnc shared-screen is strictly optional (helps make sure 
	you prompt slide advances, though)    (4476)
	[10:41] FabianNeuhaus-1 morphed into FabianNeuhaus    (4477)
	[10:42] anonymous1 morphed into SiewLam    (4478)
	[10:42] TimFinin: Here's a question I think we must address: Many big data applications require or 
	invite statistical and probabilistic models and reasoning. How can/will be address this?    (4479)
	[10:50] AmandaVizedom: @Tim, I agree; many are pursuing statistical *or* ontological reasoning 
	approaches, but few are pursuing the hybrid approaches that seem to have so much potential. The 
	PR-OWL group at GMU have been developing Bayesian + Ontological approaches for years, but I don't 
	know to what extent they have worked with Big Data problems.    (447A)
	[10:54] PeterYim: @TimFinin ... I trust KenBaclawski, (one of) our Track D co-champion(s), should 
	have a lot (knowledge and connections) to bring to the table in those aspects    (447B)
	[11:28] KenBaclawski: @TimFinin: Regarding your earlier questions, these issues would fit in Track D. 
	I have examined these issues in the past, and it would be good to try dealing with them in the context of Big Data.    (447C)
	[10:48] TimFinin: Another problem that axioms can introduce is producing inconsistencies ...    (447D)
	[10:49] DanBrickley: (re global constraints, - yes that's why schema.org property/type associations 
	don't use rdfs:domain + rdfs:range)    (447E)
	[10:49] QuentinReul: and use of axioms makes the separation of concerns (modelling vs. 
	implmentation) and re-use difficult    (447F)
	[10:50] MikeBennett: @Quentin good point, perhaps we can draw this point out in the Track A 
	conversations?    (447G)
	[10:52] QuentinReul: @Mike I think that it is an inevitable topic for improving re-use    (447H)
	[10:53] QuentinReul: DL is one potential issue, but deep biding to philosophical entities (e.g. DOLCE) is another one    (447I)
	[10:55] MikeBennett: @Quentin quite so. What is most appropriate for an ontology for a given 
	application may work for or against its re-use by someone in another application. Likewise the 
	philosophical commitments need to be consistent, or frameable within some broader, consistent set of 
	partitions / theories.    (447J)
	[10:55] AnatolyLevenchuk: @Tim, Amanda: it can be good to know about "hybrid" methods. E.g. usual 
	statistical data is in arrays/tables. How we can help with triples and ontologies?! Or we have deep 
	learning that not look like too far from ontology (features) discovery but not look too close the same time.    (447K)
	[10:57] QuentinReul: @Mike Have you heard about "Just Enough" Ontology Engineering ( 
	http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1108/1108.1488.pdf ). Although an interesting paper, it lacks 
	guidelines on tools / mechanisms to dissiminate the model and thus increase re-use    (447L)
	[10:59] MikeBennett: @Quentin I have not. We should look into this as part of our deliberations.    (447M)
	[10:59] MikeBennett: Apologies, have to drop off now.    (447N)
	[11:00] QuentinReul: I also have to drop off    (447O)
	[11:01] EdBernot: Sorry, I too have to drop off. Great session, thanks!    (447P)
	[11:00] anonymous morphed into Sub    (447Q)
	[11:05] DanBrickley: [referring to Dan's own Track E presentation] shortest talk yet?    (447R)
	[11:05] DanBrickley: I was tempted to give a Google perspective, but will do that later, with 
	datasets / APIs and other materials.    (447S)
	[11:05] AmandaVizedom: @Dan, you must have lightening talk experience. :-)    (447T)
	[11:08] DanBrickley: We used to do a lot of lightning talk sessions at W3C in the RDF Interest Group, yes :)    (447U)
	[11:10] AmandaVizedom: [amused by my own typo. perhaps "lightening" is some mix of "lightning" and "enlightening." ;-)]    (447V)
	[11:07] MarciaZeng: @DanBrickley: What will be Schema.org's role in relation to this Summit's theme?    (447W)
	[11:10] DanBrickley: Re schema.org, I'll put together some materials. It is a little difficult for 
	teams who don't have a complete Web crawl since the data is scattered over 5+ million sites, but 
	there are some possibilities. It might be particularly interesting for the 'variety' problem.    (447X)
	[11:11] DanBrickley: Do you think this could be useful? here is a Google custom search - 
	https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=003736913799082383568:8pkugzvixsw - over (200 or so) sites 
	that use the type http://schema.org/Museum    (447Y)
	[11:11] MarciaZeng: @Dan, thanks for the answer.    (447Z)
	[11:11] DanBrickley: (Easy to make such engines for any schema.org type)    (4480)
	[11:13] MarciaZeng: @Dan, I think it is useful. A way to 'filter in' first.    (4481)
	[11:15] MarciaZeng: @Dan, we found Google Image kind of search very useful for cultural heritage 
	related sources. That is a kind of typed search.    (4482)
	[11:14] MichaelGruninger: @QuentinReul: I didn't quite get your point -- are you saying that axioms 
	make reuse difficult?!    (4483)
	[11:14] EricStephan: Thank you! Sorry I have to drop off early.    (4484)
	[11:16] LeoObrst: @All: we are looking for additional co-champions for some of the tracks, including 
	Track D: Tackling the Variety Problem in Big Data, Team R: Public Relations, and Team M: Program 
	Management (includes operations, logistics, production). So please consider these if you'd like to 
	have greater input into this Ontology Summit.    (4485)
	[11:17] OliverKutz: trying    (4486)
	[11:20] MarciaZeng: Have to drop off now. Thanks a lot!    (4487)
	[11:25] TimFinin: I think an OntologySummit Facebook group or page would be a good way to get 
	announcements and reminders to the participants and wider community    (4488)
	[11:28] SimonSpero: @PeterYim: I can help on getting the semantic wiki instance going    (4489)
	[--:--] PeterYim: (responded later on email) great, Simon! come to our organizing committee meeting 
	tomorrow, so we can talk more about it    (448A)
	[11:28] AmandaVizedom: Tweeting has begun using #ontologysummit2014    (448B)
	[11:29] RamSriram: I need to leave right now. TimFinin will be giving the Symposium Co-chair 
	remarks.    (448C)
	[11:30] AmandaVizedom: I have also started using the #ontologysummit2014 hashtag on Google+, though 
	I may be the only one so far.    (448D)
	[11:31] ChristineKapp: Thank you Peter I have emailed you a question about Program Management and 
	administrivia - I need to drop now thank you very much    (448E)
	[--:--] PeterYim: (responded later on email) great, Christi! come to our organizing committee 
	meeting tomorrow, so we can talk more about it    (448F)
	[11:33] TimFinin: The #ontologysummit2014 tag uses up 1/2 a tweet! How about something shorter, e.g. #ontosum    (448G)
	[11:35] AmandaVizedom: @Tim, indeed, I have been saying so for a couple of years, to no consensus. 
	Perhaps we can make that suggestion and try to get sufficient agreement via the mailing list.    (448H)
	[11:39] FrankLoebe: @Amanda: You may consider a vote on the hashtag within this chatroom, for 
	immediate feedback from the current audience. But perhaps this does not include everyone intended.    (448I)
	[11:40] AmandaVizedom: @Frank, not a bad idea. I'd say that would be in the domain of the PR team. Peter?    (448J)
	[11:39] LesMorgan: Does the project have a Google+ presence? Many tech folk would follow it there.    (448K)
	[11:40] LesMorgan: I already circulated an item about the Summit there and got a few nibbles.    (448L)
	[11:40] PeterYim: ALL: if you are not subscribed to the [ontology-summit] mailing list yet, please 
	do so - http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontology-summit ( or drop me a line - peter.yim [at] cim3.com )    (448M)
	[11:40] PavithraKenjige: I can volunteer for Big Data    (448N)
	[11:40] PavithraKenjige: and for Program management too    (448O)
	[--:--] PeterYim: (response added later) great, Pavithra! come to our organizing committee meeting 
	tomorrow, so we can talk more about it    (448P)
	[11:41] PeterYim: Please mark you calendars and reserve this time, every Thursday, for the 
	OntologySummit2014 virtual panel session series. Session-02 will be up next Thursday- Thu 2014.01.23 
	(same time) - see developing details at: 
	http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2014_01_23    (448Q)
	[11:41] PeterYim: Reminder to those in the organizing committee, and those interested to join, our 
	4th meeting is coming up tomorrow - Fri 2014.01.17 - see details at: 
	http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014/GettingOrganized#nid43OH    (448R)
	[11:41] MatthewLange: @Leo and @Peter I am interested in helping w PR    (448S)
	[11:42] PeterYim: @MatthewLange ... great! ... come to our organizing committee meeting tomorrow, 
	and we cam talk more about it - details at: 
	http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2014/GettingOrganized#nid43OH    (448T)
	[11:47] MatthewLange: @PeterYim OK--expect me to be late though, that is school drop-off time out 
	here on the left coast    (448U)
	[11:52] PeterYim: @MatthewLange - not a problem, log into the chat-room, and grab our attention, 
	once you are able to join the call    (448V)
	[11:41] PavithraKenjige: bye    (448W)
	[11:41] LeoObrst: Thanks, all!    (448X)
	[11:42] FrancescaQuattri: Thank you All, great presentations!    (448Y)
	[11:41] PeterYim: -- session ended: 11:41am PST --    (448Z)
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