OntologWiki: OntologWorkshop July 2004

Second [ontolog] Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshops - Washington D.C. - July 6~9, 2004 (9XY)

Event Summaries (9YC)

This face-to-face event shall comprise a series of meetings and workshops, which include: (9YD)

Event #1: Workshop at the Protege Annual Conference (9YE)

Date / Time: Tuesday 2004.07.06 / 13:30 - 17:30 (9YF)
Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD) (9YG)
Co-organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad (9YH)
Expecting (in person): BobSmith, PatCassidy, PeterYim, KurtConrad, EvanWallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)... (9YI)
Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)... (9YJ)
Regrets: ...(add your name here)... (9YK)
Proposal Accepted by the Protege conference organizers - May 11, 2004 (9YL)
Agenda & Resources: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/ProtegeOntologWorkshop_2004_07_06 (9YM)

Event #2: Protege Annual Conference, proper (9YN)

Date / Time: Wednesday - Friday, 2004.07.07 - 09 (9YO)
Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD) (9YP)
Expecting (in person): BobSmith, PatCassidy, PeterYim, KurtConrad, EvanWallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)... (9YQ)
Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)... (9YR)
Regrets: ...(add your name here)... (9YS)
Agenda & Resources: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/schedule2.html (9YT)

Event #2a: Conference Banquet (9YU)
- Thu 2004.06.08, starting 6:30pm, Dinner Cruise (9YV)

Event #3: Joint SICoP-Ontolog Meeting (9YW)

Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.07 / afternoon (9YX)
Venue: GSA, 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC. (9YY)
Co-organizers: for Ontolog - PeterYim & BobSmith; for SICoP - BrandNiemann & RickMorris, with Nancy Faget & KarlHebenstreit (9YZ)
Expecting (in person): PeterYim, BobSmith, EvanWallace, PatCassidy, LeoObrst, KurtConrad, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)... (9Z0)
Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)... (9Z1)
Regrets: ...(add your name here)... (9Z2)
Logistics: we assume that the group at the Protege Conference to take off after Chris Welty's keynote on July 7 morning, and then go together on the METRO to this joint meeting in downtown DC. (9Z3)
Agenda & Resources: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP/SICoP_Ontolog_Joint_Meeting_2004_07_07 (9Z4)

Event #4: Meeting / Workshop with NIST (9Z5)

Date / Time: Friday 2004.07.09 - 1:15pm - 4:45pm EDT (9Z6)
- The Protege conference ends at 12:30pm that day) (9Z7)
Venue: NIST, Gaithersberg, MD (9Z8)
Co-Organizers: EvanWallace, BobSmith & PeterYim (9Z9)
Expected (in person): BobSmith, PeterYim, AdrianWalker, PatCassidy, EvanWallace, KurtConrad, BoNewman (if possible), BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)... (9ZA)
Expecting (via phone): BoNewman (alternitive if I can't attend in person)...(add your name here)... (9ZB)
Regrets: ...(add your name here)... (9ZC)
Agenda & Resources: /NistOntologMeeting_2004_07_09 (9ZD)

Resources (9ZE)

Snapshots (9ZF)

Area Map (9ZG)

BobSmith has hightlighted the locations where the above events are likely to take place on a map of the greater DC area. (thanks, Bob. --ppy/2004.05.21_11:03am PDT) (9ZH)

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Personal Comments and Logistics (9ZJ)

BobSmith: I depart 6am Sunday, 7-11-04 (9ZK)

KurtConrad: Arriving in DC area on Saturday (07.03)... Checking into hotel in Bethesda on Monday (07.05)... Staying at Park Inn International in Rockville (301-881-5200)... Departing DC on Sunday (07.11)... My office number (408-247-0454) will forward to my cell (9ZL)

PeterYim: Arriving in DC area (via red-eye flight) on Tuesday morning (07.06.2004 9:17am, Reagan Airport)... Checking into the Four Points Sheraton Bethesda Hotel (301-654-1000) ... Departing Sat 07.10.2004 around 6pm ... I can be reached at 650-578-9998 (leave message if I'm unavailable) (9ZM)

BoNewman: I will be attending the conference (at least the Tuesday sessions) on behalf of my employer. (9ZN)

...(add your comments here)... (9ZO)

Preparation Work Material (9ZP)

Protégé Workshop Proposal and Call for Participation (9ZQ)

Date / Time: Tuesday afternoon, July 6th, 2004 (9ZR)
Location: In the NIH Campus(Building 45:?) (9ZS)
Title "Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions" (9ZT)

Rationale: (9ZU)
- The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies (9ZV)
  - One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas (9ZW)
  - The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not. (9ZX)
  - This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community (9ZY)
- Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration (9ZZ)
- The ontolog community wishes to take this opportunity to commence dialog with those who have the expertise in the ("lossless" or "lossy") conversion of Protege-based ontologies to OWL, RDF/S, XML/XSD, UML/UML-Class-Diagram, UML2/OCL, SQL, ... etc. (A00)

Topics of Interest: (A01)

(A02)
- Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....) (A03)
  - Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (KurtConrad) (A04)
  - Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (PatCassidy) (A05)
  - Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (BillMcCarthy) (A06)
  - Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (PeterYim) (A07)

(A08)
- Solicited Topics (A09)
  - Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development (A0A)
  - Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies (A0B)
  - Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise (A0C)
  - Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows (A0D)
  - Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools (A0E)
  - Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models (A0F)
  - Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas (A0G)
  - Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project (A0H)
  - Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs (A0I)

Who should be coming? (A0J)
- individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological methodologies. (A0K)
- All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers. (A0L)
- those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing. (A0M)

Protégé Workshop Planning Notes (A0N)

Schedule: (A0O)
- Workshop at Protege Conference Proposal Accepted (Thanks, Natasha) (A0P)
- Room Availability: (A0Q)
- Accepting Papers (Abstracts and Presentations) until June 1st, 2004 (A0R)
- Deadline for Submission of Papers, Topics, Interest (June 1st ?) (A0S)
- Scheduling and notifications (June 15th ?) (A0T)
- Pre-Conference reality check (A0U)
- Sessions (A0V)
- Post-Sessions Lessons Learned (A0W)

Co-Organizers (A0X)
- BobSmith (A0Y)
- KurtConrad (A0Z)

SICoP-Ontolog Joint Meeting Planning Notes (A10)

draft agenda and planning notes: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/SicopOntologMeeting_2004_07_07 (A11)

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