OntologWorkshop July 2004/ProtegeOntologWorkshop 2004 07 06

Ontolog Workshop at the 7th International Protégé Conference - July 6, 2004    (BNY)

Workshop Title: Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions    (BNZ)

• Co-organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad    (BO0)

Rationale / Solicitations    (BO1)

• Rationale:    (BO2)
  • The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies    (BO3)
    • One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas    (BO4)
    • The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not.    (BO5)
    • This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community    (BO6)
  • Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration    (BO7)
  • 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.    (BO8)

• Topics of Interest:    (BO9)

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  • Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)    (BOB)
    • Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (Kurt Conrad)    (BOC)
    • Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (Pat Cassidy)    (BOD)
    • Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (BillMcCarthy)    (BOE)
    • Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (Peter P. Yim)    (BOF)

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  • Solicited Topics    (BOH)
    • Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development    (BOI)
    • Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies    (BOJ)
    • Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise    (BOK)
    • Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows    (BOL)
    • Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools    (BOM)
    • Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models    (BON)
    • Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas    (BOO)
    • Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project    (BOP)
    • Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs    (BOQ)

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

Date / Venue / Logistics    (BOV)

• Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.06 13:30 - 17:30 EDT    (BOW)
• Venue: Natcher Building (building 45 on the NIH Campus), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD.    (BOX)
• Official Conference Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/    (BOY)
• Registration & Logistics: refer to the official conference website. To attend this workshop, registration to the Protégé Conference is required.    (BOZ)

Attendees    (BP0)

• Attended:    (BP1)
  • BobSmith    (BP2)
  • KurtConrad    (BP3)
  • PatCassidy    (BP4)
  • PeterYim    (BP5)
  • EvanWallace    (BP6)
  • BillMcCarthy    (BP7)
  • GuidoGeerts    (BP8)
  • NenadAnicic    (BP9)
  • BoNewman    (BPA)
  • George Hurlburt    (BPB)
  • RobertGarigue    (BPC)
  • Stacey Kaminsk    (BPD)
  • Bernie Pineau    (BPE)
  • Michael Gaffney    (BPF)
  • Dinesh Bhat    (BPG)
  • Harry Gottlieb    (BPH)
  • George Tang    (BPI)
  • Rich Fritzson    (BPJ)
  • Josh Lubell    (BPK)
  • Eswar Sivaraman    (BPL)
  • Jim Oberthaler    (BPM)
  • Andreas Gehrmann    (BPN)
  • Feng-Hao Liu    (BPO)
  • Jennifer Vendetti    (BPP)
  • Natasha Noy    (BPQ)

Agenda & Proceedings    (BPR)

Agenda    (BPS)

• What follows is a tentative schedule. The presentation titles, for example, are subject to revision by the authors. We are targeting 20 minutes for each presentation with 10 minutes for follow-up discussion and "speaker switching logistics." Please forward any questions, issues, or corrections to KurtConrad or BobSmith, as appropriate.    (BPT)

Resources    (BQ3)

• For material presented at the workshop (and other relevant resources) see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/workshop/jul-2004/2004-07-06_Ontolog-Workshop-at-Protege-Conference/    (BQ4)

Snapshots    (BQ5)

• A few snapshots from the workshop session:    (BQ6)

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• ... for more pictures (from the entire week), see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/index.htm    (BQC)

Remarks    (BQD)

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