Ontolog Forum
What's In Store: for Ontolog Planning ConferenceCall_2008_11_13 Reference
Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Event, Projects & Initiatives
- Candidate speaker and panelist (semi-invited already; no dates set)
- Suzanna Lewis
- DeborahMcGuinness
- Natasha Noy
- Bill Andersen
- Azamat Abdoullaev [PeterYim / 2007.10.25 - no response received]
- (the following were added during ISWC & FOIS 2008 =ppy/2008.11.13)
- Tim Finin (UMBC)
- Ian Horrocks (Oxford)
- Stefan Decker
- Enrico Motta (KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
- Rudi Studer (AIFB, Karlsruhe)
- JohnGiannandre (Metaweb) - Freebase
- Bijan Parsia & Pavel Klinov (Univ. of Manchester) - "Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in
Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach"
- Aldo Gangemi
- Peter Mika - Vo Camp
- Johanna Seibt (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) - "Non-Transitive Mereology on Processes: Some Applications of General Process Theory in the Theory of Interactions" - (already scheduled for Prof. Seibt to give us a talk on ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 with Michael Grüninger chairing the session)
- Ongoing, past & candidate mini-programs or mini-series
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- Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ]
- candidate: Dennis Thomas - Mark 3 knowledge platform (#proprietary)
- candidate: Freebase / Metaweb#
- Ontologies in Emergency Response [ RexBrooks / BobSmith ]
- EmergingOntologyShowcase (content) [ Ken Baclawski / MikeBennett ]
- Nigel Collier / Son Doan - Bio Caster - http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp/
- John Graybeal / Luis Bermudez / Carlos Rueda - Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project - http://marinemetadata.org
- Pat Cassidy - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO
- Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ]
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- SemanticWiki [ HaroldSolbrig / Li Ding / Max Voelkel / Peter P. Yim / SebastianSchaffert ]
- Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel mini-series [ Ken Baclawski / Michelle Raymond / Mike Dean / Paul Buitelaar / Peter P. Yim ]
- one session scheduled for ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 - possibly with a panel showcasing 4 different EU efforts in ontology respositories/libraries and related work
- candidates:
- AlexGarcia - collaborative ontology development
- LarKC [DougLenat / MikeDean]
- OKKAM, the EU ontology repository effort [DougLenat]
- DSpace
- SchemaWeb - [MikeDean/2007.10.09] ...another repository is http://schemaweb.info.
- UCore (DoD) [...?... LeoObrst]
- OpenCyc WebServices [LeoObrst / 2008.08.15]
- "Open Repositories 2008" (DigitalLibrary) folks [LeoObrst / 2007.10.09] - Ontology Repository at University of Manchester [MikeDean / 2008.04.23] - http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/
- Topics - Research areas and Implementation approaches
- Business Processes and Policies for Managing a Ontology Repository
- Storage and Access of Knowledge in an Ontology Repository
- Importing, Validation, Versioning of Ontologies in a Repository
- Mapping and Merging over Ontologies and Upper Ontologies within a Repository [NatashaNoy, Cliff Josyln - suggested by FrankOlken]
- Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information
- Ontology Summits [ NIST / Ontolog / NCOR / ... ]
- candidate-1 for 2009 - proposed: Training and Education [BarrySmith]
- candidate-2 for 2009 - proposed: Ontolgies as the Next Generation of Information Standards [ Steve Ray / Peter P. Yim / Leo Obrst / Barry Smith / Laurent Liscia (OASIS)]
- (repeat?) successful past programs
- DatabaseAndOntology [MatthewWest]
- OntologyMeasurementEvaluation [SteveRay]
- OKMDS [NASA / Ontolog / KMWG]
- (continue?) past programs
- Ontologizing Ontolog
- OntologTaxoThesaurus [ BobSmith / DeniseBedford ]
- during FOIS-2008, John Bateman indicated interest in the possibility of doing something with the Ontolog body of knowledge
- ONION [ CarlMattocks ]
- Ontologizing Ontolog
- Candidates:
- Ken Baclawski: discussion on "what needs to be done!"
- SvenVanPoucke: feature "Ask the experts" series - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2008-08/msg00000.html
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- mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers"
- candidate champions: Michael Grüninger / Conrad Bock / TillMossakowski ]
- candidate presentation: Aditya Kalyanpur / Kavitha Srinivas (IBM) [ChrisWelty] - OWL reasoner called SHER (now has a public demofor medical ontologies) - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html & http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/ - (# IBM Alphaworks)
- candidate presentation: Hans Chalupsky on PowerLoom http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/
- build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009
- mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers"
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- ... (more) Open Ontology Tools
- Emerging ontological work products - application
- ... (tackle in the Duane / Kurt) Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions
- collaborations
- NIST
- NCOR
- CEW
- NASA
- NARA (?)
- (I)AOA (emerging)
- OASIS
- STI-Int'l
- DERI
- project and initiative (sharing CWE)
- OOR
- BSP
- (I)AOA
Remarks
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