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= [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]]: [[OntologySummit2007_Survey]] individual responses =

== [[OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response]] input from [[DougHolmes|Doug Holmes]] ==

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Question 1 Respondant Info

Name: Doug Holmes

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

[X] Formal ontology communities

[X] Semantic Web communities

[ ] Linguistic communities

[ ] Concept Map community

[ ] Topic Map community

[ ] SEARCH communities

[ ] Web 2.0 communities

[ ] Thesauri community

[X] Taxonomy communities

[ ] Metadata communities

[ ] XML communities

[X] Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[ ] System Architecture communities

[ ] Biomedical communities

[X] 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

[X] 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

[ ] 14. Biomedical communities

[ ] 15. Standards Development communities

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

Question 2b Specific Community

or sub-community I am affiliated with: informal 'affiliation' with Semantic Web 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 -

"precise specification, knowledge base for intelligent applications, machine/system interoperability, human interface/communication"

Question 3b Ontology Issues -

"(1) explaining ontology,

(2) de-mystifying ontology,

(3) illustrating/demonstrating value to users/stakeholders

(4) and, consequently securing funding - especially for R&D"

Question 3c Ontology Problems -

"(1) Describing the value of potential application(s) of ontology

(2) Convincing potential customers/developers that it is practcal

to apply related technology

(3) Helping developers/engineers to begin to use related technology

(4) helping interested developers to create "good"and practical

basic/primitve/intital ontologies

(5) Illustrating practical, working system"

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -

"(1) Use Cases / Examples of potential application(s) of ontology

(2) Simplified Development Environment(s) for early adapters

(3) Someting like Design Patterns for developers

(4) A "critical mass" of practical, working systems"

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

Term: ontology

Gloss: formal model of some - typically application - domain

Reference (citation/url): An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization. Tom Gruber

Artifact (name/version): Pizza Ontology

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.co-ode.org/ontologies/pizza/pizza_20041007.owl

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

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[X] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -

"standard tutorial"

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

Term: domain model

Gloss: typically a UML model of a software application domain

Reference (citation/url): Most UML textbooks

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

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -

"Also called an "Analysis Model""

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

Term: Entity Relationship Diagram

Gloss: A model of (entity) concpets and relations from which a database schema is developed

Reference (citation/url): Most RDB textbooks

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

[X] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -

"yield to John Sowa"

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

Term: taxonomy

Gloss: a subsumtion model of concepts in a domain

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

[X] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -

"sometimes called a "backbone" ontology"

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

Term: tag library

Gloss: informal organization of xml tags

Reference (citation/url): lots of discrete software applications developed in the 1990's

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

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -

"this idea probably morphed into the current Web 2.0 notion of "tags" - at least

it seems like a similar notion"

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

Term: data dictionaries

Gloss: a list of natural language definitions for application specific data

Reference (citation/url): common usage

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

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -

"a common artifact of many software systems that include a relational database as an archive"

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

Term: system knowledge base

Gloss (definition): a specification of the knowledge that is encoded and

used by a knowledge based system

Reference (citation/url): numerous KB systems

Artifact (name/version): [[PreAct]] (development tool)

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://asinc.com/technology_overview.php

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

[X] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -

"PreAct is a modern, commercial KB system development that has roots in

the DARPA Pilot's Associate System. It is used to develop systems

that include, reason about and operate on a "knowledge base""

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

Term: enterprise knowledge base

Gloss: a natural language/ textual description of

organizational "knowledge" about specified topics

Reference (citation/url): A number of large enterprises [e.g. British Petroelum, Lockheed Martin, etc.]

develop and maintain "knowledge bases" of this sort

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

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -

"these usually seem to have some sort of a taxonomy - or topic map - as an index,

and are frequently believed [by users] to serve some of the purposes for which

ontologies are developed."

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: Java Professionals, Inc.

Link (url) to Logo: (Not Answered)

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