OntologySummit2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses    (XFS)

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from KathyLesh    (XFT)

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Question 1 Respondant Info    (XFV)

      Name:  Kathy Lesh    (XFW)

Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)    (XFX)

      [X]  Formal ontology communities
      [  ]  Semantic Web communities
      [  ]  Linguistic communities
      [  ]  Concept Map community
      [  ]  Topic Map community
      [  ]  SEARCH communities
      [  ]  Web 2.0 communities
      [X]  Thesauri community
      [X]  Taxonomy communities
      [  ]  Metadata communities
      [  ]  XML communities
      [X]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
      [X]  System Architecture communities
      [X]  Biomedical communities
      [X]  Standards Development communities
      [  ]  Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (XFY)

Question 2a Representing - I represent the perspective of the following constituency/community (please pick one; if you want to provide input from more than one perspective, please return a separate form):    (XFZ)

      [  ]  1. Formal ontology communities
      [  ]  2. Semantic Web communities
      [  ]  3. Linguistic communities
      [  ]  4. Concept Map community
      [  ]  5. Topic Map community
      [  ]  6. SEARCH communities
      [  ]  7. Web 2.0 communities
      [  ]  8. Thesauri community
      [  ]  9. Taxonomy communities
      [  ]  10. Metadata communities
      [  ]  11. XML communities
      [  ]  12. Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
      [  ]  13. System Architecture communities
      [X]  14. Biomedical communities
      [  ]  15. Standards Development communities
      [  ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (XG0)

Question 2b Specific Community    (XG1)

      or sub-community I am affiliated with:  health informatics    (XG2)

Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an:    (XG3)

      [  ]  1. informed layman
      [X]  2. practitioner
      [  ]  3. expert
      [  ]  4. other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (XG4)

Question 3a Ontology Value -    (XG5)

      "content management, interoperability, discovery, decision support"    (XG6)

Question 3b Ontology Issues -    (XG7)

      "convincing the masses of the value of ontologies, proving ROI, 
       educating that ontology is not equal to data model"    (XG8)

Question 3c Ontology Problems -    (XG9)

      "educating that ontology is not equal to data model, proving ROI"    (XGA)

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -    (XGB)

      "In the healthcare community, get HITSP members to understand the 
       difference between an ontology and a data model, that standard terminology 
       alone will not provide interoperability."    (XGC)

Question 4aGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XGD)

      Term:  ontology
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  SNOMED CT
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XGE)

Question 4a1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XGF)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [X]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XGG)

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -    (XGH)

      "Although SNOMED CT is built using description logics, I do not consider 
       it a 'true' ontology.  It has too many compound (precoordinated) concepts.  
       It does not have natural language text definitions.  It is inconsistently 
       modeled.  SNOMED CT is trying to be too many things to too many people/groups."    (XGI)

Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XGJ)

      Term:  nomenclature
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  ISO/IEEE 11073-10101
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XGK)

Question 4b1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XGL)

      [X]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XGM)

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -    (XGN)

      "Cited as a medical device interoperability standard (ISO/IEEE 11073), 
       the nomenclature section is touted by the developers as the key to 
       semantic interoperability.  The standard has not been widely 
       implemented and is not in any format that is computable."    (XGO)

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XGP)

      Term:  thesaurus
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  Controlled Health Thesaurus
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  http://www.cdc.gov/PhinVSBrowser/StrutsController.do    (XGQ)

Question 4c1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XGR)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [X]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XGS)

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -    (XGT)

      "Originally developed to tag CDC web pages to improve search and retrieval.  
       CDC changed web search strategies and the thesaurus is being used by some 
       in CDC to tag internal documents.  The structure was changed from a MeSH 
       model to an IS-A taxonomy with the intent to grow to an ontology.  
       Funding was cut.  CDC is putting efforts into building 'value sets'.  
       The thesaurus has the potential to be the glue to link the value sets 
       as well as assist with discovery and decision support - if it were funded."    (XGU)

Question 4dGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XGV)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XGW)

Question 4d1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XGX)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XGY)

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -    (XGZ)

      "(Not Answered)"    (XH0)

Question 4eGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XH1)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XH2)

Question 4e1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XH3)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XH4)

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -    (XH5)

      "(Not Answered)"    (XH6)

Question 4fGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XH7)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XH8)

Question 4f1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XH9)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XHA)

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -    (XHB)

      "(Not Answered)"    (XHC)

Question 4gGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XHD)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss (definition):  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XHE)

Question 4g1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XHF)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XHG)

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -    (XHH)

      "(Not Answered)"    (XHI)

Question 4hGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (XHJ)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (XHK)

Question 4h1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?    (XHL)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (XHM)

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -    (XHN)

      "(Not Answered)"    (XHO)

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,    (XHP)

 a 'convener' is a participant who provides substantive contribution to the OntologySummit2007 
 initiative (through the online discourse, this survey, and other events leading to or during 
 the workshops and the written communique process), and    (XHQ)
 a 'co-sponsor' is an organization who is providing technical or funding support (e.g. supporting 
 member(s) of its technical staff to participate as a 'convener'), and/or endorsing the objective 
 of this OntologySummit2007,    (XHR)
      [  ]  I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of OntologySummit2007
      [  ]  I will consider endorsing the OntologySummit2007 communique. Please send it to me for 
              review when it is ready. I will confirm my endorsement after the review.
      [  ]  I confirm that you may list my organization as a 'co-sponsor' for 
              OntologySummit2007 (details below).    (XHS)

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:    (XHT)

      Organization Name:  (Not Answered)
      Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered)    (XHU)

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