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Question 1 Respondant Info 

Name:  Chintan Patel 

Question 2 Affiliated - 
I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities  (please check all that apply) 

[  ]  Formal ontology communities

[X]  Semantic Web communities

[  ]  Linguistic communities

[  ]  Concept Map community

[  ]  Topic Map community

[  ]  SEARCH communities

[  ]  Web 2.0 communities

[  ]  Thesauri community

[  ]  Taxonomy communities

[  ]  Metadata communities

[  ]  XML communities

[  ]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[  ]  System Architecture communities

[X]  Biomedical communities

[  ]  Standards Development communities

[  ]  Other (please specify):  (Not Answered) 

Question 2a Representing - 
I represent the perspective of the following constituency/community (please pick one; if you want to provide input from more than one perspective, please return a separate form): 

[  ]  1. Formal ontology communities

[  ]  2. Semantic Web communities

[  ]  3. Linguistic communities

[  ]  4. Concept Map community

[  ]  5. Topic Map community

[  ]  6. SEARCH communities

[  ]  7. Web 2.0 communities

[  ]  8. Thesauri community

[  ]  9. Taxonomy communities

[  ]  10. Metadata communities

[  ]  11. XML communities

[  ]  12. Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[  ]  13. System Architecture communities

[X]  14. Biomedical communities

[  ]  15. Standards Development communities

[  ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered) 

Question 2b Specific Community 

or sub-community I am affiliated with:  medical informatics community 

Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - 
With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an: 

[  ]  1. informed layman

[X]  2. practitioner

[  ]  3. expert

[  ]  4. other (please specify):  (Not Answered) 

Question 3a Ontology Value -  

"- Information integration from disparate health care systems  

- providing unified view of data   

- Enabling 'semantic' clinical queries for infection control, 

clinical research, data warehouse etc.   

- Automated classification and maintenance of the terminology/ontology itself." 

Question 3b Ontology Issues -  

"No specific issue.    

Medical informatics folks have embraced the notion of 

formal terminologies and ontologies. However, 

the adoption of OWL has been slow, which I believe 

would be highly beneficial." 

Question 3c Ontology Problems -  

"I think getting of rid the 'logic community' around the 

OWL-standards, who are incessantly trying to add 

new *un-needed* features, would really help in improving 

the acceptance in my community." 

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -  

"Well I think the evidence is out there. How many 

'real world ontologies' actually use the core OWL-DL constructs 

(cardinality constraints, disjunction etc)? may be only a handful.   

So why is the W3C standards committee seeing the need for adding 

more expressivity into already bloated OWL?" 

Question 4aGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  Controlled Terminology

Gloss:  set of terms representing the system of concepts of a particular subject field

Reference (citation/url):  http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=20057&ICS1=1&ICS2=20&ICS3=

Artifact (name/version):  SNOMED-CT

- Artifact Ref. (url):  http://www.snomed.org/snomedct/index.html 

Question 4a1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[X]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4bGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4b1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4cGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4c1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4dGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4d1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4eGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4e1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4fGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4f1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4gGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss (definition):  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4g1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 4hGlossary - 
Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community: 

Term:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  (Not Answered) 

Question 4h1 Called An Ontology - 
On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -  

"(Not Answered)" 

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,  

a 'convener' is a participant who provides substantive contribution to the [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] 

initiative (through the online discourse, this survey, and other events leading to or during 

the workshops and the written communique process), and  

a 'co-sponsor' is an organization who is providing technical or funding support (e.g. supporting 

member(s) of its technical staff to participate as a 'convener'), and/or endorsing the objective 

of this [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]], 

[  ]  I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]]

[  ]  I will consider endorsing the [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] communique. Please send it to me for 

review when it is ready. I will confirm my endorsement after the review.

[  ]  I confirm that you may list my organization as a 'co-sponsor' for 

[[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] (details below). 

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:  

Organization Name:  (Not Answered)

Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered) 

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