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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
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:
- ...(put content here)...
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: 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
- ...(put link here)...
- ...(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