OntologySummit2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses    (YC3)

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from MatthewHettinger    (YC4)

Please make sure you refer to the OntologySummit2007 & OntologySummit2007_Survey pages for the full context of the input. T    (YC5)


Question 1 Respondant Info    (YC6)

      Name:  Matthew K. Hettinger    (YC7)

Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)    (YC8)

      [  ]  Formal ontology communities
      [  ]  Semantic Web communities
      [  ]  Linguistic communities
      [  ]  Concept Map community
      [  ]  Topic Map community
      [  ]  SEARCH communities
      [  ]  Web 2.0 communities
      [  ]  Thesauri community
      [  ]  Taxonomy communities
      [  ]  Metadata communities
      [  ]  XML communities
      [  ]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
      [  ]  System Architecture communities
      [  ]  Biomedical communities
      [X]  Standards Development communities
      [  ]  Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (YC9)

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):    (YCA)

      [  ]  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
      [  ]  14. Biomedical communities
      [  ]  15. Standards Development communities
      [X]  16. Other (please specify):  Systemics (as opposed to the general use of 'System Architecture'    (YCB)

Question 2b Specific Community    (YCC)

      or sub-community I am affiliated with:  Systems Archticture, Standards    (YCD)

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

      [  ]  1. informed layman
      [  ]  2. practitioner
      [  ]  3. expert
      [X]  4. other (please specify):  Definitely Practioner but probabley not expert 
                                       in the eyes of the experts    (YCF)

Question 3a Ontology Value -    (YCG)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YCH)

Question 3b Ontology Issues -    (YCI)

      "Semantic interoperability and the associated competing 'conceptualizations' 
       of what the term 'ontology' refers to"    (YCJ)

Question 3c Ontology Problems -    (YCK)

      "see above"    (YCL)

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -    (YCM)

      "In my opinion, a well-known holistic solution has not been forth-coming. 
       There are hypothesized partial solutions"    (YCN)

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

      Term:  Ontology
      Gloss:  A logical theory accounting for the meaning of a formal vocabular
      Reference (citation/url):  N Guarino, Formal ontology and information systems. 
                                 In Proceedings of Formal Ontology and Information Systems, 
                                 Trento, Italy, June 1998. IOS Press
      Artifact (name/version):  DOLCE
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YCP)

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?    (YCQ)

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

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -    (YCS)

      "This term and definition is applied in all worlds of semantic interoperability, 
       knowledge engineering, systems architecture and engineering. It is believed that 
       this definition is the only one (that I know of) that reflects the necessary 
       conceptualizations (e.g. intensional vs. extensional conceptualization) required 
       for addressing semantic interoperability issues in SOA, e-commerce, 
       federated systems, standards bodies, etc. etc. It has been used to help 
       characterize sources of error for semantic interoperability and for the 
       creation of semantic interoperability measures, with measurement theory.    (YCT)
       It has been used in the context of other terms of interest where the 
       associated artifacts of these terms, e.g. taxonomy, may be used in a 
       ontology lifecycle methodology as preliminary artifacts in the 
       process of creating the final product - an ontology.    (YCU)
       The definition, actually the "Guarino School of Ontology" is being used 
       as a part of a formal grounding for an (Inter-)Enterprise Systems 
       (general systems-theoretic sense) Theory merging technology, knowledge, 
       law, economics, communication(s) etc."    (YCV)

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

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

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?    (YCY)

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

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -    (YD0)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YD1)

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (YD2)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YD3)

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?    (YD4)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (YD5)

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -    (YD6)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YD7)

Question 4dGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (YD8)

      Term:  (Not Answered)
      Gloss:  (Not Answered)
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YD9)

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?    (YDA)

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

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -    (YDC)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YDD)

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

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

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?    (YDG)

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

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -    (YDI)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YDJ)

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

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

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?    (YDM)

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

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -    (YDO)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YDP)

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

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

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?    (YDS)

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

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -    (YDU)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YDV)

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

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

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?    (YDY)

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

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -    (YE0)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YE1)

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,    (YE2)

 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    (YE3)
 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,    (YE4)
      [  ]  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).    (YE5)

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:    (YE6)

      Organization Name:  Mathet Consulting, Inc.
      Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered)    (YE7)

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