Ontologizing Ontolog: Taxo-Thesaurus Project Home Page

Most Critical Task(s) At Hand

• Refine the Project Agenda
  • Time availability
  • Expectations and known events occuring over the next 100 days
  • Candidate criteria for Proof or Failure of key "Concept": Ontologizing
  • Resources presented by Wiki
  • Resources presented by Ontolog
• Refine Project questions and scope of answers (possibly a bibliography or webography?)
  • What do we mean by "Ontologizing"?
  • Who else is currently involved with "Ontologizing" interesting things?
  • What is the business case for Ontologized Bodies of Knowledge?
  • What are the tensions and distinctions between:
    • Natural, Semi-formal, and Formal Ontologies?
    • Ideal and Practical Taxonomies, Thesaurus, Conceptual Models, Formal Ontologies?
    • Are "Levels" of usage, maturity, net benefits useful to consider at this stage?

What's New

• Denise Bedford has created a first-cut inventory of online assets and has posted it as: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/ontolog-cwe-inventory-map_dbedford_20060514a.xls
• ref: BobSmith's presentation on 2006.04.20 that started this project http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_20#nidMKA

Key Date(s) to Note

• Face to Face Session at Protege Conference, Stanford University, July 23, 2006
• Ontolog Forum Agenda and Slides for Thursday, May 25th
• project commencement: 2006.04.20

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Project Mission

• Design a roadmap from where we are today towards a taxonomy_thesaurus based means for some Users to access Ontolog's Body of Knowledge
  • Sketch 1 shows main pathways currently being explored (Google on "Ontologizing" for 12.8K hits)
  • Sketch 2 may show a selected pathway/method
  • Sketch 3 could show the schema etc for a working Taxo_Thesaurus Demonstration
  • Sketch 4 solves some individual or team's "nasty problem" with grace and elegance OR illustrates what NOT TO DO
• Value Proposition (evolves)

Deliverables & Deadlines

• Sketch 1..... week ___
• Sketch 2..... Week ___
• Sketch 3..... Week ___
• Sketch 4..... Week ___

Project Work-in-Progress

• Denise Bedford has created a first-cut inventory of online assets and has posted it as: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/ontolog-cwe-inventory-map_dbedford_20060514a.xls
• From the ConferenceCall_2006_06_15 work session:
  • Slides from Denise Bedford describing the steps in her "Building a Top Down Ontology from the Bottom Up" process: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Building_a_Top_Down_Ontology_From_the_Bottom_Up--DeniseBedford_20060608b.ppt
  • Concept map of our proposed process: (--process by Denise Bedford, concept map graphics by BobSmith)

• For the ConferenceCall_2006_09_07 discussion, Bob Smith produced his general outline, revised goals and revised "pattern trees" as follows, for discussion:

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Project Plan OUTLINE

• Background (Issues of Access to this Body of Knowledge)
• Assumptions about Requirements and Architecture
• Developing an Ontolog Taxo-Thesaurus "Product"
  • Methodology Options and Criteria (See Ontology 101, revised)
  • Available Tools and their selection criteria
• Work plan
• Results to date
• Lessons learned and future tasks

The Team

• Bob Smith
• Denise Bedford
• Lisa Colvin
• Peter P. Yim
• Pat Heinig
• Dagobert Soergel
• Antoinette Arsic
• Aj Chen
• Ken Baclawski
• ...(sign up here if you want to join the team)...

Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace

• Discussion Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontologizing/ (prefix that with [TaxoThesaurus] on the subject line if possible.)
• Shared-File Workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/

Resources

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  • ...(put description and other pertinent info here)...
  • Methodology studied and adopted by the Ontolog community for the UBL-Ontology project - see: Methodology

Conference Call, Meeting & Workshop

• 2007.06.21: Project Update & Planning - ConferenceCall_2007_06_21
• 2007.03.22: Project Review - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2007_03_22#nidVF5
• 2006.09.07: Ontologizing Ontolog 'postmortem' & OntologTaxoThesaurus 'next steps' - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_09_07#nidQ55
• 2006.07.23 F2F: Workshop Session - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006#nidNR9
• 2006.06.15: Project work session: Categorizing Concepts - ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
• 2006.05.25: Project discussion during the 2006.05.25 call - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_25#nidNFK
• 2006.05.02: Initial Project Focus Conference Call - OntologTaxoThesaurus/ConferenceCall_2006_05_02
• 2006.04.20: Project Kicked-off at the "Ontologizing Ontolog Cotent" discussion session-1: ConferenceCall_2006_04_20