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Ontology Summit 2011: Making the Case for Ontology

6th in the series of a 3-month open annual event, by and for the Ontology Community. This Summit is co-organized by Ontolog, NIST, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD

ref. OntologySummit & OntologySummit2011_Communique

What's New

  • * 2011_05_19 - Thursday: Ontology Summit 2011: postmortem and follow-up planning - Co-chairs: Steve Ray & Nicola Guarino - ConferenceCall_2011_05_19
  • 2011_03_31 - Thursday: Ontology Summit 2011: All Hands - Synthesis and Reports - Co-chairs: Steve Ray & Nicola Guarino - ConferenceCall_2011_03_31
  • 2010_12_16 - Thursday: Ontology Summit 2011 (Pre-Launch) Community Input & Planning Session - ConferenceCall_2010_12_16   

Ontology Summit 2011 Focus

Theme: "Making the Case for Ontology"

Description, Goals & Objectives

While the field of ontology, in the information science sense, has blossomed since the late 1980s, the use of ontology in commercial applications still has not been fully exploited, much less recognized by the mainstream technical community. Many in the ontology community are asked for good examples where using an ontology brings clear benefits to addressing a commercial need - indeed the quest continues for the "killer app" for ontology.

This year's Ontology Summit seeks to address this need to provide concrete evidence of successful deployment of ontologies by examining several application domains for such examples, and in better articulating where different "strengths" of ontological representation are best applied. To support these concrete examples, the summit also aims to classify the categories of applications where ontology has been, and could be, successfully applied; to identify distinct types of metrics that might be used in evaluating the return on investment in an ontology application (cost, capability, performance, etc.); to lay out some strategies for articulating a case for ontological applications; and to identify remaining challenges and roadblocks to a wider deployment of such applications that represent promising application areas and research challenges for the future. The findings of the summit are documented in the form of a communiqué intended for public consumption.

Process & Deliverables

Similar to our last 5 summits, this Ontology Summit was comprised of 3 months of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists) and virtual panel sessions (over augmented conference calls), and culminated in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium held on April 18-19, 2011 at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US) during which we, among other things, distilled our thoughts into a collaboratively developed communiqué.

Structure and Discourse

Co-chairs, Tracks and Champions

Workspaces

  • Online Forum - active discussion is also carried on over the [ ontology-summit ] mailing list - see details here
    • When starting a new thread on the list, please prefix the subject line with one of the following track labels, and make sure message content are on topic (i.e. that the discussion/message relates well to the subject line):
      • [ApplicationFramework], or
      • [ApplicationCases], or
      • [ApplicationFramework], or
      • [ValueMetrics], or
      • [GrandChallenges], or
      • a combination like [[[MakingTheCase]]-GrandChallenges]
      • no prefix, if they don't belong to any discussion track

The Team

You are cordially invited to join us!

  • Like all activities Ontolog has been hosting, this is open to everyone.
    • Do join us if you concur with the theme and objective of this endeavor and would like to participate in, or follow the progress of the discourse
  • specific individuals who may be interested include (but not limit to):
    • members of ontology communities
    • potential user organizations
    • potential funders of ontology R&D and ontological engineering work
    • people in policy, industry, research, academia and the web working on sharing knowledge, semantic interoperability, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence ... who are engaged in the research, development, engineering and implementation of these subject matters
    • ...
  • Please join us in the "Ontology Summit 2011" virtual discourse (as one of the conveners of this initiative),
    • If you are already an Ontolog Member:
      • to participate in the "Ontology Summit 2011" virtual discourse, please subscribe to the [ontology-summit] forum (the convener's mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
      • to browse the forum archives, see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/
      • if you run into any problem, please send your subscription request directly to <peter.yim@cim3.com>
    • If you are not already an Ontolog Member, and is interested to join the community:
      • please take a look at the details in our "Membership" section on the Ontolog WikiHomePage.
      • if you have additional questions or have run into any problem, please email <peter.yim@cim3.com>

Discussion Archives & Shared-File Workspace

  • Mailing List Discussion Archives:
    • [ontology-summit] - Ontology Summit 2011 Convener's discussion Archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/ (open)
      • to participate in the virtual discourse, please subscribe to this [ontology-summit] forum (the summit participants' mailing list), by sending an empty (no message body is needed) message to: ontology-summit-join [at] ontolog.cim3.net
      • anyone responding to the RSVP for any of the summit events will be taken as having expressed interest to participate, and will be subscribed to this [ontology-summit] mailing list (write <peter.yim@cim3.com> to let him know, if that is not the case.)
    • [ontology-summit-org] - Ontology Summit 2011 Organizing Committee List Archives - http://interop.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit-org/ (password protected)

Conference Call, Meeting & Workshop

Event Calendar: Open Sessions

  • Jan-20 - Launch Event
  • Jan-27 - (Panel-1) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - I
  • Feb-3 - (Panel-2) Track-1: Ontology Application Framework
  • Feb-10 - (Panel-3) Track-2: Ontology Application Use Cases - II
  • Feb-17 - (Panel-4) Track-3: Value Metrics, Value Models and the Value Proposition
  • Feb-24 - (Panel-5) Track-4: Strategies for 'Making the Case'
  • Mar-3 - (Panel-6) Integrating the Ontology Application Framework, Use Cases, Value and Metrics
  • Mar-10 - (no event)
  • Mar-17 - (Session-7) Perspectives from Europe
  • Mar-24 - (Panel-8) Track-5: Grand Challenges
  • Mar-31 - (Panel-10) All Hands - synthesis and report
  • Apr-7 - Communique draft review session
  • Apr-14 - (pre-symposium) preparation and review session
  • Apr-18 & 19 - (F2F) Workshop and Symposium
    • Launch Event: date/time is Thu 2010.01.20 ... starting at: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm CET / 5:30pm GMT / 17:30 UTC (ref. worldclock)
    • ALL virtual session for the summit will be scheduled on this time window (which is 1 hour earlier than the nominal Ontolog event slot, making it slightly easier for EU folks.)

Event Archives

OntologySummit2011_Symposium - 18 & 19-April-2011 - at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

Organizing Committee Sessions

  • 9th Organizing Committee (postmortem) meeting - 2011.05.13 (ref.)
  • 8th Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.04.08 (ref.)
  • 7th Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.03.25 (ref.)
  • 6th Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.03.11 (ref.)
  • 5th Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.02.25 (ref.)
  • 4th Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.02.11 (ref.)
  • 3rd Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.01.28 (ref.)
  • 2nd Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.01.18 (ref.)
  • 1st Organizing Committee meeting - 2011.01.11 (ref.)
  • Second co-organizers meeting - pre-launch brainstorm prep - 2010.12.14
  • First co-organizers meeting - getting started - 2010.11.23

Ontology Summit 2011 in the News, Blogosphere & Literature

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  • Please use "#OntologySummit2011" or "#ontologysummit2011" (case insensitive) as twitter hashtag (elsewhere, too)

Additional Resources

This page is maintained by members of the OntologySummit2011 Organizing Committee.

Please send any suggestions, comments and edits for this page to <peter.yim@cim3.com>

or to any other committee member. Thanks. =ppy/2011.12.16



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