OntologySummit2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses    (YEA)

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from MichelBiezunski    (YEB)

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Question 1 Respondant Info    (YED)

      Name:  Michel Biezunski    (YEE)

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

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

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):    (YEH)

      [  ]  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
      [X]  13. System Architecture communities
      [  ]  14. Biomedical communities
      [  ]  15. Standards Development communities
      [  ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)    (YEI)

Question 2b Specific Community    (YEJ)

      or sub-community I am affiliated with:  I am looking for it.    (YEK)

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

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

Question 3a Ontology Value -    (YEN)

      "A common set of terms and processing rules."    (YEO)

Question 3b Ontology Issues -    (YEP)

      "Defining the level to which it is operational, i.e. whether it embraces 
       the rest or if it is embraced by it.  Ontology is only one specific 
       point of view. Degree of Agreement evolves over time."    (YEQ)

Question 3c Ontology Problems -    (YER)

      "Try to elucidate the divergence between the meaning of "ontology" 
       in the philosophical sense ("the science of being") which conveys 
       the notion of absolute and the computer-science sense 
       ('an exhaustive conceptual schema') which tends to impose the 
       misleading view that there is no other way to conceptualize. 
       An ontology should be seen as a particular world view."    (YES)

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -    (YET)

      "Decompose in a common low level representation, and recompose 
       several views (=ontologies). This is equivalent to decompose 
       operations in assembly language, and recompose them according 
       to different high level languages."    (YEU)

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

      Term:  Subject
      Gloss:  An understanding of a thing.
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YEW)

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?    (YEX)

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

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -    (YEZ)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YF0)

Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (YF1)

      Term:  Topic
      Gloss:  An expression of a subject
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  <topic> element in Topic Maps. Subject / Object in RDF
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YF2)

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?    (YF3)

      [  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [X]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (YF4)

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -    (YF5)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YF6)

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (YF7)

      Term:  Name
      Gloss:  A string attached to a subject. Subjects may have zero, one or several names.
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YF8)

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?    (YF9)

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

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -    (YFB)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YFC)

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

      Term:  Identifier
      Gloss:  A string that uniquely designates a subject. A formal expression of a subject.
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  A key in a database.
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YFE)

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?    (YFF)

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

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -    (YFH)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YFI)

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

      Term:  Perspective
      Gloss:  A bias in which a universe is seen that determines 
              the expressions that are uttered to express it.
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YFK)

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?    (YFL)

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

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -    (YFN)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YFO)

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

      Term:  View
      Gloss:  A set of expressions treated as a unit.
      Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YFQ)

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?    (YFR)

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

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -    (YFT)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YFU)

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

      Term:  Monad
      Gloss (definition):  A simple substance that enters into composites
      Reference (citation/url):  G.W. Leibniz. Monadology, 
                                 1. [ G.W. Leibniz's Monadology, by Nicholas Rescher, 
                                                      University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991]
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YFW)

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?    (YFX)

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

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -    (YFZ)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YG0)

Question 4hGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:    (YG1)

      Term:  Entelechy
      Gloss:  One could give the name "entelechies" to all simple substances 
              or created monads. For they all have in them a certain perfection 
              [echousi to enteles], there is a certain self-sufficiency [autarkeia] 
              that makes them sources of their own internal actions...
      Reference (citation/url):  G.W. Leibniz. Monadology, 18. 
                                 [ G.W. Leibniz's Monadology, by Nicholas Rescher, 
                                                University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991]
      Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)
      - Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered)    (YG2)

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?    (YG3)

      [X]  1. 1 - totally unlikely
      [  ]  2. 2 - rarely
      [  ]  3. 3 - sometimes
      [  ]  4. 4 - quite often
      [  ]  5. 5 - almost always    (YG4)

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -    (YG5)

      "(Not Answered)"    (YG6)

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,    (YG7)

 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    (YG8)
 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,    (YG9)
      [  ]  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).    (YGA)

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:    (YGB)

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

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