ProtegeOntologWorkshop 2004 07 06

Ontolog Workshop at the 7th International Protégé Conference - July 6, 2004    (A3P)

Workshop Title: Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions    (A3Q)

• Co-organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad    (A3R)

Rationale / Solicitations    (A3S)

• Rationale:    (A3T)
  • The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies    (A3U)
    • One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas    (A3V)
    • The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not.    (A3W)
    • This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community    (A3X)
  • Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration    (A3Y)
  • 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.    (A3Z)

• Topics of Interest:    (A40)

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  • Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)    (A42)
    • Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (Kurt Conrad)    (A43)
    • Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (Pat Cassidy)    (A44)
    • Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (Bill McCarthy)    (A45)
    • Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (Peter P. Yim)    (A46)

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  • Solicited Topics    (A48)
    • Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development    (A49)
    • Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies    (A4A)
    • Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise    (A4B)
    • Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows    (A4C)
    • Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools    (A4D)
    • Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models    (A4E)
    • Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas    (A4F)
    • Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project    (A4G)
    • Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs    (A4H)

• Who should be coming?    (A4I)
  • individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological methodologies.    (A4J)
  • All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers.    (A4K)
  • those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing.    (A4L)

Date / Venue / Logistics    (A4M)

• Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.06 13:30 - 17:30 EDT    (A4N)
• Venue: Natcher Building (building 45 on the NIH Campus), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD.    (A4O)
• Official Conference Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/    (A4P)
• Registration & Logistics: refer to the official conference website. To attend this workshop, registration to the Protégé Conference is required.    (A4Q)

Attendees    (A4R)

• Attended:    (A4S)
  • BobSmith    (A4T)
  • KurtConrad    (A4U)
  • PatCassidy    (A4V)
  • PeterYim    (A4W)
  • EvanWallace    (A4X)
  • BillMcCarthy    (A4Y)
  • GuidoGeerts    (A4Z)
  • NenadAnicic    (A50)
  • BoNewman    (A51)
  • George Hurlburt    (A52)
  • RobertGarigue    (A53)
  • Stacey Kaminsk    (A54)
  • Bernie Pineau    (A55)
  • Michael Gaffney    (A56)
  • Dinesh Bhat    (A57)
  • Harry Gottlieb    (A58)
  • George Tang    (A59)
  • Rich Fritzson    (A5A)
  • Josh Lubell    (A5B)
  • Eswar Sivaraman    (A5C)
  • Jim Oberthaler    (A5D)
  • Andreas Gehrmann    (A5E)
  • Feng-Hao Liu    (A5F)
  • Jennifer Vendetti    (A5G)
  • Natasha Noy    (A5H)

Agenda & Proceedings    (A5I)

Agenda    (A5J)

• 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.    (A5K)

Resources    (A5U)

• 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/    (A5V)

Snapshots    (A5W)

• A few snapshots from the workshop session:    (A5X)

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• ... for more pictures (from the entire week), see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/    (A63)

Remarks    (A64)

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