| Session
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Synthesis
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| Duration
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1 hour
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| Date/Time
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22 Apr 2026 16:00 GMT
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| 9:00am PDT/12:00pm EDT
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| 5:00pm BST/6:00pm CST
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| Convener
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Ken Baclawski
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Conference Call Information
Discussion
12:20:57 Michael DeBellis : I don't like calling an ontology a dictionary. A dictionary IMO is best modeled in SKOS. A dictionary has little structure. An ontology for me is first and foremost a model.
12:21:41 Alex Shkotin : dictionary of application area.
12:22:27 janet singer : But a formalized dictionary that supports reasoning would have structure?
12:22:44 Alex Shkotin : exactly!
12:23:20 Gary Berg-Cross : Modern ontologies include some dictionary functions but support other semantic uses.
12:24:13 Alex Shkotin : there are a lot of ways to use terminology of application area.
12:43:49 Michael DeBellis : Re: elevator pitch, my elevator pitch is that ontologies are NOT complex, they are based on set theory and logic and we all use set theory and logic every day. I often find that non technical users pick up ontologies and Protege very quickly. I also avoid using jargon and just say an ontology is 1) the schema model for a graph database 2) A schema model that includes automatic validation and reasoning. I.e., start with things they understand first.
12:45:33 From Alex Shkotin : metadata is a part of Abox.
- Michael DeBellis : It depends who you talk to. If you read things by Gartner or books like Strengholt's Enterprise Data they talk about "semantic metadata" i.e., TBox
- Alex Shkotin : I am talking about metadata instance.
- Michael DeBellis : 👍
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