Ontolog Forum
Second [ontolog] Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshops - Washington D.C. - July 6~9, 2004
Event Summaries
- This face-to-face event shall comprise a series of meetings and workshops, which include:
Event #1: Workshop at the Protege Annual Conference
- Date / Time: Tuesday 2004.07.06 / 13:30 - 17:30
- Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD)
- Co-organizers: Bob Smith & Kurt Conrad
- Expecting (in person): Bob Smith, Pat Cassidy, Peter P. Yim, Kurt Conrad, Evan Wallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
- Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
- Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
- Proposal Accepted by the Protege conference organizers - May 11, 2004
- Agenda & Resources: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/ProtegeOntologWorkshop_2004_07_06
Event #2: Protege Annual Conference, proper
- Date / Time: Wednesday - Friday, 2004.07.07 - 09
- Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD)
- Expecting (in person): Bob Smith, Pat Cassidy, Peter P. Yim, Kurt Conrad, Evan Wallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
- Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
- Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
- Agenda & Resources: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/schedule2.html
- Event #2a: Conference Banquet
- Thu 2004.06.08, starting 6:30pm, Dinner Cruise
Event #3: Joint SICoP-Ontolog Meeting
- Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.07 / afternoon
- Venue: GSA, 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC.
- Co-organizers: for Ontolog - Peter P. Yim & Bob Smith; for SICoP - Brand Niemann & RickMorris, with Nancy Faget & Karl Hebenstreit
- Expecting (in person): Peter P. Yim, Bob Smith, Evan Wallace, Pat Cassidy, Leo Obrst, Kurt Conrad, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
- Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
- Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
- Logistics: we assume that the group at the Protege Conference to take off after Chris Welty's keynote on July 7 morning, and then go together on the METRO to this joint meeting in downtown DC.
- Agenda & Resources: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP/SICoP_Ontolog_Joint_Meeting_2004_07_07
Event #4: Meeting / Workshop with NIST
- Date / Time: Friday 2004.07.09 - 1:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
- The Protege conference ends at 12:30pm that day)
- Venue: NIST, Gaithersberg, MD
- Co-Organizers: Evan Wallace, Bob Smith & Peter P. Yim
- Expected (in person): Bob Smith, Peter P. Yim, Adrian Walker, Pat Cassidy, Evan Wallace, Kurt Conrad, Bo Newman (if possible), BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
- Expecting (via phone): Bo Newman (alternitive if I can't attend in person)...(add your name here)...
- Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
- Agenda & Resources: OntologWorkshop_July_2004/NistOntologMeeting_2004_07_09
Resources
Snapshots
Area Map
- BobSmith has hightlighted the locations where the above events are likely to take place on a map of the greater DC area. (thanks, Bob. --ppy/2004.05.21_11:03am PDT)
Personal Comments and Logistics
- Bob Smith: I depart 6am Sunday, 7-11-04
- Kurt Conrad: Arriving in DC area on Saturday (07.03)... Checking into hotel in Bethesda on Monday (07.05)... Staying at Park Inn International in Rockville (301-881-5200)... Departing DC on Sunday (07.11)... My office number (408-247-0454) will forward to my cell
- Peter P. Yim: Arriving in DC area (via red-eye flight) on Tuesday morning (07.06.2004 9:17am, Reagan Airport)... Checking into the Four Points Sheraton Bethesda Hotel (301-654-1000) ... Departing Sat 07.10.2004 around 6pm ... I can be reached at 650-578-9998 (leave message if I'm unavailable)
- Bo Newman: I will be attending the conference (at least the Tuesday sessions) on behalf of my employer.
- ...(add your comments here)...
Preparation Work Material
Protégé Workshop Proposal and Call for Participation
- Date / Time: Tuesday afternoon, July 6th, 2004
- Location: In the NIH Campus(Building 45:?)
- Title "Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions"
- Rationale:
- The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies
- One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas
- The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not.
- This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community
- Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration
- 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.
- The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies
- Topics of Interest:
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- Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)
- Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (KurtConrad)
- Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (PatCassidy)
- Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (BillMcCarthy)
- Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (PeterYim)
- Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)
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- Solicited Topics
- Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development
- Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies
- Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise
- Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows
- Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools
- Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models
- Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas
- Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project
- Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs
- Solicited Topics
- Who should be coming?
- individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological methodologies.
- All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers.
- those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing.
Protégé Workshop Planning Notes
- Schedule:
- Workshop at Protege Conference Proposal Accepted (Thanks, Natasha)
- Room Availability:
- Accepting Papers (Abstracts and Presentations) until June 1st, 2004
- Deadline for Submission of Papers, Topics, Interest (June 1st ?)
- Scheduling and notifications (June 15th ?)
- Pre-Conference reality check
- Sessions
- Post-Sessions Lessons Learned
- Co-Organizers
SICoP-Ontolog Joint Meeting Planning Notes
- draft agenda and planning notes: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/SicopOntologMeeting_2004_07_07