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Ontolog Forum

The Ontolog Forum wiki has been actively developed since at least 2002. This page is a historical review of some of the activities from 2002 to 2014.

Meetings in (mostly) reverse chronological order

  • 2012_05_10 - Thursday: "Fostering 'Big Open Data' in government through Open Collaboration - invited presentation on NYCFacets and introduction to New York City's "Open" initiatives" - Co-chairs: Jeanne Holm & Peter P. Yim - Panelists: ChrisMusialek, AndrewNicklin & JoelNatividad - Full proceedings of the session
  • 2012_04_13 - version 1.0 of the OntologySummit2012_Communique was formally adopted by the community at this Symposium ... endorsement of this Communique was openly solicited (for a brief period.)
  • 2010_12_03 - Friday: 3rd Annual Spatial Ontology Community of Practice (SOCoP) Workshop - full day at USGS National Center at Reston, Virginia, USA (with remote participation support) - see: SOCoP/Workshop_Agenda_2010_12_03
  • 2010_05_13 - Thursday: First IAOA Assembly (face-to-face session) co-located with the FOIS 2010 Conference (Toronto, Canada)
  • First IAOA Assembly commencing (virtually) with IAOA_ExecutiveCouncil_Election_2010 being held between April 28 ~ May 3, 2010.
    • Election and other Voting results are out - IAOA members should refer to the announcements of the results posted to the [iaoa-member] mailing list on 5-May-2010
  • 12-November-2009 - Thursday: SOCoP Fall'09 Workshop - SOCoP/Workshop_2009_11_12 ... Audio recording of the session is available!
  • 16-Jul-2009 - Thursday: "Integrated tools for ontology development and management: A field guide to the Stanford technology" - Chair: Professor Mark Musen (Stanford) - Panelists: Dr. Tania Tudorache, Dr. Tim Redmond & Dr. Natasha Noy - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_07_16
  • 12-February-2009, Thursday: SemanticWiki mini-series Session-5: "Semantic Wiki Applications & Use Cases (2): horizontal applications" - Co-chairs: Dr. Li Ding (RPI) & Dr. Jie Bao (RPI) - Panelists: Mr. Yaron Koren on "External Data in Semantic MediaWiki", Mr. Philipp Zaltenbach on "MWSearch", Professor Peter Dolog on "Tag Based Recommendations in KIWI", Mr. Mike Axelrod on "Fostering collaboration and wiki culture in a large corporate environment", Mr. Marc Feickert on "FamilySearch" and Mr. JoelNatividad on "Visualizing Semantic Inline Query Results with SRF-Ploticus" - Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2009_02_12
  • Thursday, 16-October-2008 - "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series panel session-2 - co-chaired by Professor Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-2 is featuring Sven Van Poucke, MD (Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium) who will give a talk entitled: "Ontologists and Domain Experts focusing on Chronic Wounds : Different Worlds on the Same Planet?," and Professor Martin Hepp (Bundeswehr University, Munich, Germany) who will present on: "The Good Relations Ontology: Making Semantic Web-based E-Commerce a Reality." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_10_16
  • Thursday, 25-September-2008 - Kick-off session for the "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series co-championed by Professor Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-1 of the mini-series featured Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., London UK) who gave a talk on: "The EDM Council Semantics Repository: Building global consensus for the Financial Services Industry," and Mr. MikeBergman (Zitgist LLC) who presented on: "UMBEL: A Lightweight Subject Reference Structure for the Web." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_25
  • Thursday, 19-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Dr. Mark Greaves (Director, Knowledge Systems from Vulcan, Inc.) gave a talk entitled: "Knowledge Representation in Practice: Project Halo and the Semantic Web." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_19
  • Thursday, 12-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Dr. Christopher Welty (IBM Research; Chair, W3C RIF Working Group) gave a premier talk on: "RIF: Rules Interchange Format." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_12
  • Thursday, 05-Jun-2008 - invited speaker Professor William E. McCarthy from Michigan State University (MSU) gave a talk entitled: "Ontologically-Driven Standards Development for Business Process Systems." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_06_05
  • Thursday, 29-May-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 8th and Concluding Event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Speakers from NASA, Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) and Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) present on: "Connecting People Through Semantics, and OKDMS Series Summary." This session was chaired by Ms. Holm. and was featured both as an augmented conference call and simultaneously on NASA's "SecondLife: Explorer Island" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_05_29
  • Thursday, 08-May-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 7th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Professor Yochai Benkler (Harvard) is invited to join session co-chair, Ms. Susan Turnbull & Ms. Jeanne Holm to give a talk on: "Cooperation, Human Systems Design, and Peer Production." This virtual event is, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_05_08
  • Thursday, 17-April-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 6th episode of their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Dr. Jeff Conklin (CogNexus Institute), Dr. Simon Buckingham Shum (KMi, Open University, UK), Mr. Eric Yeh (SRI) and Mr. Jack Park are invited to join session co-chairs, Mr. Peter Yim (Ontolog; CIM3) and Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) to present their talks on: "Knowledge Mapping for Sensemaking." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_04_17
  • 25-Mar-2008 - Ontolog events are now posted onto a OntologGoogleGroupCalendar. Thanks to Dr. Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation, RPI) who suggested that we do it, made this first instance happen, and has agreed to help with maintaining that calendar for the community initially.
  • Thursday, 20-March-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 5th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Dr. Richard Keller (NASA/ACS), Dr. Robert Raskin (NASA/JPL) and Mr. Ralph Hodgson (NASA-Constellation Project; TopQuadrant) were invited to join session co-chairs, Mr. Andrew Schain (NASA/HQ) and Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) to present their talks on: "Organizing Science Knowledge for Discovery at NASA." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_20
  • Thursday, 13-Mar-2008 - Mr. James Bryce Clark from the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) gave a talk entitled: "Practical lurches towards semantic interoperability: standards mash-ups in production and in development." Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_03_13
  • Thursday, 21-Febuary-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presented the 4th event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. Giora Hadar (FAA) and Dr. Michael Kull (NRC) were invited to join session chair, Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) to present on: "How Knowledge Management Supports Decision Making in the (US) Federal Government." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_21
  • Thursday, 14-February-2008 - Ontolog Panel Discussion: "Ontology Applications in Emergency Response (Take-2)" - Session co-chairs: Mr. Rex Brooks & Dr. Bob Smith, along with panelists: Ms. ElysaJones, Mr. DavidWebber and Ms. Michelle Raymond jointly put forth their position: "Resolved: Effective Emergency Response Management Requires Ontology as an Organizing Principle, and Ontology Applications in Practice" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2008_02_14
  • Thursday, 31-Jan-2008 - Professor Dr. John Bateman from the University of Bremen (Germany) was our invited speaker. He and his colleagues gave a talk entitled: "Ontology Structuring Mechanisms and Ontological Modularity: ongoing research and targeted applications" on work by himself (Prof. Dr. JohnBateman), Dr. Till Mossakowski, Dr. Oliver Kutz and Ms. JoanaHois. Please refer to details on the session page, at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_31
  • Thursday, 17-January-2008 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 3rd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. Tom Soderstrom (NASA/JPL), Ms. Jeanne Holm (NASA/JPL) (Session Chair) & Ms. Marcela Oliva were invited to prsesent on the topic: "Creating Informational and Virtual Space for Knowledge Sharing." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_17
  • Thursday, 10-January-2008 - Ontolog had a Presentation and Panel Discussion, entitled: "Semantic Interoperability in Health Informatics: Lessons Learned" with Panelists: Mr. Marc Wine (co-chair), Mr. Rex Brooks (co-chair), Dr. MichaelCummens & Professor SaulRosenberg. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_01_10
  • Thursday, 13-Dec-2007 - NASA-Ontolog-KMWG presents the 2nd event in their "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series. Mr. Peter P. Yim, Mr. Ted Gordon, Mr. Adam Cheyer, Professor Ken Baclawski, Dr. Patrick Cassidy, Mr. Duane Nickull, Dr. Denise Bedford & Dr. Jerry Glenn were on a panel to discuss: "Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it." This virtual event was, again, offered both in our normal augmented conference call settings, as well as concurrently at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2007_12_13
  • Thursday, 6-Dec-2007 - Professor Mark Musen, Head of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and PI of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology research consortium, was our invited speakers. Professor Musen gave a talk on: "If we build it, will they come? Social-engineering of new technology to disseminate biomedical ontologies." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_12_06
  • Thursday, 08-Nov-2007 - A series of activities representing a NASA-Ontolog-KMWG collaboration was launched on this date. Entitled: "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)," this mini-series is co-organized by a team of individuals from various related communities passionate about creating the opportunity for an inter-community, collaborative exploration of the intersection between Ontology, Knowledge Management and Decision Support, that could eventually lead us toward "Better Decision Making." Ms. Jeanne Holm, Chief Knowledge Architect of NASA/JPL, and Mr. Andrew Schain, Chief Technology Officer at NASA/HQ spoke and gave us the NASA story on the subject. This virtual event was offered in our normal augmented conference call settings, and simultaneously at the NASA/JPL Explorer Island in the "Second Life" virtual world settings. Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2007_11_08
  • Thursday, 25-Oct-2007 - Ms. Jeanne Holm and Mr. Charles White from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, gave a talk and demonstration on: "Sharing Knowledge in Second Life" in preparation for the NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support (OKMDS)" mini-series, as the pre-OKMDS-series tutorial on getting people ready on the Second Life virtual world. Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_25 ... This marked the first time an Ontolog event was presented both in 'real world' and 'virtual world' settings, thanks to our NASA/JPL friends! ... our 'Second Life' session screen-shots and Audio recording of the session are now available!
  • Thursday, 18-Oct-2007 - Dr. Matthew West and Dr. Leo Obrst presented the 11th session in the "Database And Ontology" series - Dr. Alan Wu from Oracle's Database Semantic Technologies Group was our invited speaker. This is the second of the two-part presentation from Oracle and was focused more on Oracle's OWL Inferencing implementation. Dr. Wu's talk was entitled: "A Scalable RDBMS-Based Inference Engine for RDFS/OWL." Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_18
  • Thursday, 11-Oct-2007 - Dr. Timothy Redmond, Chief Architect of Protégé from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (formerly Stanford Medical Informatics) and Mr. Peter Yim, CEO of CIM3 were our invited speakers. They presented on: "CODS — a Collaborative Ontology Development Service & Infrastructure" and "Distributed Ontology Development with Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_11
  • Thursday, 4-Oct-2007 - Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Protégé team was our invited speaker. She presented a talk on: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé." Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_10_04
  • Thursday, 6-Sep-2007 - Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software will be our invited speaker and gave us an update on SUMO in his talk entitled: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology at Age 7: Progress and Promise". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_09_06
  • Thursday, 23-August-2007 - Mr. Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation for NARA (the US National Archives and Records Administration) was our invited speaker, who gave a talk on: "Lawyers, Language, and Legal Risk: Emerging Issues in E-Discovery" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_08_23 ... Audio recording of the session is now available!
  • Ontolog presented two panels at the Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63 (2007.07.17 & 18, at NSF, Arlington, VA, USA):
    • 2007.07.17 - with this[ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsStabilityInInformationSharing_2007_07_17#nid3MIV|first panel]], we used Ontology Summit 2007 as a case, to share lessons learned in organizing delivering a collaborative virtual community initiative like it, and how that knowledge can be captured and preserved.
    • 2007.07.18 - with the[ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsStabilityInInformationSharing_2007_07_17#nid3MVB|second panel]], we made a compelling argument on the role of ontologies in information and records management.
    • The preparation work is avaiable at: OntologySummit2007_FollowUp/CewPanel
  • Thursday, 12-Jul-2007 - Dr. Susie Stephens and Dr. Matthew West presented the 10th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. John Sowa from VivoMind Intelligence was be our invited speaker. Dr. Sowa gave a talk on: "Analogical Reasoning With and About Databases and Knowledge Bases". Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_12
  • Thursday, 05-Jul-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 9th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Chris Partridge from the BORO Center, UK was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Data and process revisited: ontology driving a paradigm shift in the development of business application systems." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_07_05
  • Thursday, 10-May-2007 - Dr. Matthew West will be presenting the 7th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Professor Tatiana Malyuta from the City University of New York was our invited speaker and gave a talk on "Interaction of Ontology and Database in the Information System" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_05_10
  • Thursday, 8-March-2007 - Dr. Matthew West presented the 5th Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Adrian Walker, CTO of Reengineering LLC., was our invited speaker. He gave a talk on "Usability, Databases and Ontologies" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_08
  • Thursday, 1-March-2007 - Dr. Tom Gruber, the ex-Stanford scientist who defined the term "ontology" in the sense we apply to its use in computer science, artificial intelligence and the semantic web these days, was our invited speaker. Dr. Gruber's talk was on: "Grande Challenges for Ontology Design" ... Please refer to details. at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2007_03_01
  • Thursday, 11-January-2007 - Professor Werner Ceusters, from the Ontology Research Group (ORG) of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences at the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), presented to the community his talk entitled: "Realism-based Change Management for Quality Assurance in Ontologies and Data Repositories" as the 3rd event in the "Ontology Measurement & Evaluation" Mini-Series ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_11
  • Thursday, 4-January-2007 - we presented the 3rd Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Ms. Elisa Kendall, CEO and Founder of Sandpiper Software was our invited speaker again. She presented a talk on "The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Motivation & Brief Introduction" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2007_01_04
  • Thursday, 14-December-2006 - [[ChristopherChute|Professor Christopher Chute, MD DrPH]], from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Rochester, MN, US) presented his invited talk entitled: "The Lexical Grid Project: LexGrid" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_12_14
  • Thursday, 16-November-2006 - Mr. Peter Yim (CEO of CIM3) will be gave a tutorial on: "A Guide to Collaborating at Ontolog: Sharing files, discussions and the wiki on the Ontolog collaborative work environment" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: TutorialSession_2006_11_16
  • Thursday, 16-November-2006 - we will be presenting the 2nd Event in the "Database And Ontology" Mini-Series - Dr. Matthew West (Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited) presented his invited talk entitled: "From Ontology to Data Model: Choices and Design Decisions" as the 2nd session in the Ontolog "Database and Ontology" mini-series ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page, at: ConferenceCall_2006_11_16
  • Thursday, 02-Nov-2006 conference call was devoted to (a) testing out a new conference calling service (which supports both landline and skype calls); (b) Ontolog community planning, and (c) coordinating the ONION project startup within the Ontolog community. ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_11_02
  • Thursday, 26-October-2006 - Dr. Pat Hayes from the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition ("IHMC") was our invited speaker. His presentation was entitled: "A logic for ontology interoperation" where he talked about "Common Logic (CL) and its extension, IKL" - a system of logical notations and formalisms that can act as an expressive foundation for ontology interchange. CL is currently going through ISO approval to become "ISO Common Logic". Please refer to details on the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_10_26
  • We solicited members of the community to help identify and rank that they consider the top 5 ontology driven applications - Results were compiled; and we have submitted this assessment, on request from SICoP as part of our input to their compliation which will be released at the[FifthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference_2006_10_1011|5th Semantic Interoperability for eGovernnment Conference]]. (-BobSmith / Kurt Conrad /2006.10.06).
  • Thursday, September 14, 2006 - Professor Alan Rector, from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) presented to the community his talk entitled: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_09_14
  • Thursday, August 17, 2006 - Dr. York Sure, Assistant Professor at the Institute AIFB of the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and currently visiting researcher at Stanford University (USA), presented to the community his talk entitled: "What does Sparkling Wine have to do with Semantics?" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at: ConferenceCall_2006_08_17
  • July 23-26, 2006. Third Ontolog Face-to-Face meetings. As was the case last time, we were holding it in conjunction with the year's 9th International Protégé Conference. The main venue for the event was at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Our theme this year wass: "Natural, Semi-Formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas." We had a full-day workshop on July 23, participated at the Protégé Conference proper, made a visit to the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center on July 25, and held other social events. ... Please refer to details and proceedings on the wiki page at OntologWorkshop_July_2006
  • Dr. Patrick Cassidy of MITRE presented on Thursday, July 13, 2006, his talk entitled: "Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog" ... Please refer to details in the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_07_13
  • Dr. Timothy Redmond from Stanford Medical Informatics was the invited speaker for our Thursday, June 29, 2006 session. He presented a talk on: "Developing Applications in Protégé: The Protégé Plugin Architecture" for those of us in the community who are, or are planning to, develop ontology-based applications ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_29
  • Professor Bob Smith (Cal State U & Tall Tree Labs), Dr. Denise Bedford (World Bank) and the OntologTaxoThesaurus team will be running a scheduled work session Thursday June 15, 2005 to allow knowledge engineers and domain experts to confer and help categorize 'concepts' extracted from Ontolog's knowledge content, as part of the effort in the overall OntologTaxoThesaurus project, which is a part of the overall "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" exercise. Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_15
  • Dr. Matthew West from Shell returned on Thursday, June 1, 2006, to present a talk on "Integrating Data or Ontologies - A look at the ISO 18876 Architecture" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_06_01
  • Dr. David Ferrucci, a Sr. Manager from IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center and the Chief Architect for UIMA, presented his talk on Thursday, May 11, 2006, entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_05_11
  • Mr. Adam Cheyer a Program Director in SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center presented Thursday, May 4, 2006 on: "Ontology Management in CALO, a Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes" ... Details available on the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2006_05_04
  • Dr. Denise Bedford of the World Bank spoke to the community on Thursday, April 13, 2006. Her talk was entitled: "Strategy for Developing an Ontology - First Steps" ... This session is the first of the series of events mentioned above. Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_04_13
  • Ontolog Forum rolled out a series of events (talks and discussion sessions) between April 13 and July 26, 2006 that revolve around the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" during which this community explored the "what's" and "how's" to the development of a semantically interoperable application, using the improved access to the community knowledge of Ontolog as a case in point. ... see Ontologizing Ontolog.
  • Professor Dr. Asuman Dogac from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey will be presenting to the community on Thursday, March 2, 2006. Her talk is entitled: "Exploiting ebXML Registry Semantics in the eHealth Domain" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_03_02
  • Dr. Matthew West, Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager of Shell International Petroleum Company Limited (London, UK), and custodian of the ISO-15926 specification, presented to the community on Thursday, February 23, 2006. His talk was entitled: "An Introduction to 4 Dimensionalism and ISO 15926" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_02_23
  • Dr. Nicola Guarino from the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Italy will be presenting to the community on Thursday, February 2, 2006. His talk is entitled: "Making basic ontological choices: the DOLCE experience." DOLCE - a Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering - is an initiative lead by Dr. Guarino and is one of the leading Upper Ontologies available. ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_02_02
  • Jan. 25, 2006 - Podcast to the audio recording of the Ontolog speaker and discussion events became available - Thanks to EMichaelMaximilien who led the initial effort - see above
  • Dr. Leo Obrst from MITRE presented to the community, in two sessions on Thursday, January 12 and 19, 2006. His talk was entitled: "What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models" ... Please refer to details on the wiki session page at: ConferenceCall_2006_01_12
  • Dr. James Spohrer, Director of Services Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center was our invited speaker for December, and presented to the community on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005. The title of his talk was: "Services Sciences, Management, Engineering (SSME): A next frontier in education, innovation, and economic growth and the role of knowledge representation techniques in services innovation" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_12_08 session page.
  • Dr. Douglas B. Lenat, President & CEO of Cycorp was our invited speaker for November, 2005. Dr. Lenat presented to the community on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 in a talk entitled: "CYC: Lessons Learned in Large-Scale Ontological Engineering" ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_11_17
  • Dr. Bob Smith, Professor Emeritus of California State University, moderated a Take-II (as a follow-up to our 2005.08.25 session) of the Panel Discussion on "Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects". This event took place on Nov. 3, 2005 and devoted more time to interactive discussion among the panelists (MarkMusen, Christopher Chute, Conrad Bock, Marc Wine, David Whitten and BrandNiemann) and participants, and covered some of the issues that we did not get a chance to treat properly at the last session. ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_11_03
  • Dr. Nicolas Rouquette from NASA/JPL moderated our Technical Discussion on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005. The topic discussed was: "Semantic Web Service Ontology Standard". A panel including David Martin (OWL-S), JohnDomingue (WSMO), Amit Sheth (WSDL-S) and Michael Grüninger (SWSF / FLOWS), were on the panel to help open the discussion. Between our panelists and experts in the audience, we collectively delved into the various perspectives and approaches being taken by the state-of-the-art researchers on the subject matter. We tried to make some sense of the current situation, and even suggested where things should possibly be heading. Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_10_20
  • Professor Barry Smith from State University of New York at Buffalo will be presenting to the community on Thursday, October 13, 2005. His talk is entitled: "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_10_13 session page.
  • Mr. Jon Bosak from Sun Microsystems presented to the community, in a joint session with the US federal government Collaborative Expedition Workshop at the National Science Foundation (Ballston, VA), on Friday, September 23, 2005. His talk was entitled: "Governance in the Development of an OASIS Standard for Business Documents" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_09_23
  • Ms. Elisa F. Kendall from Sandpiper Software, Inc. presented to the community on Thursday, Sep. 8, 2005. Her talk was entitled: "The Model Driven Semantic Web: Emerging Technologies & Implementation Strategies." ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_09_08
  • Mr. Rex Brooks from HumanMarkup.org organized and moderating our Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005 discussion session, with our expert panel: Bob Smith, Brand Niemann, David Whitten, Marc Wine, Mark Musen and RamSriram. The topic was "Healthcare Informatics Landscapes, Roadmaps, and Blueprints: Towards a Business Case Strategy for Large Scale Ontology Projects". ... Please refer to details at the session wiki page at ConferenceCall_2005_08_25
  • Mr. Anders W. Tell from Business Collaboration Toolsmiths AB (Sweden) presented to the community on Thursday, July 14, 2005. His talk was entitled: "The maturity of business ontologies and rate of adoption - examples and challenges from the domain of eCommerce and electronic business collaborations" ... Please refer to details on the ConferenceCall_2005_07_14 session page.
  • 2005.06.29 - the Ontolog Community adopted a motion to nominate Mark Musen, M.D. Ph.D., Head of Stanford Medical Informatics and the Protégé project, as a candidate to the 17-member Advisory Committee of the American Health Information Community (AHIC) that is being set up by the US Federal Department Health and Human Services. This commission is expected to develop a process for selecting standards and an architecture for the National Health Information Network. On the coordination of Bob Smith, our nomination letter was officially sent to NCO/HHS on 2005.08.01. Unfortunately, our nominee did not make it onto the AHIC commision. See: NominationToAHIC
  • Dr. Mark Greaves from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ("DARPA") will be giving a talk entitled: "The Future of Semantic Web Technology at DARPA" on Thursday, May 12, 2005. Refer to details on ConferenceCall_2005_05_12
  • Professor Mark Musen head of the Protege Project & of the Stanford Medical Informatics department gave the talk entitled: "Building ontologies from the ground up: When users set out to model their professional activity" on Thu Dec. 9, 2004. See: ConferenceCall_2004_12_09
  • Adam Pease and Peter P. Yim made a presentation, on behalf of the Ontolog Forum, at the EIDX "Semantic Harmonization" Panel Session, Wed Dec. 1, 2004. The presentation was titled: "Explicit Semantics for Business Ontology - an interim report from the ontolog forum". See: ConferenceCall_2004_12_01. They were supported by Kurt Conrad (onsite), Leo Obrst and Steve Ray (participating remotely) during the session.
  • Dr. Christopher Welty from the IBM Watson Research Center was our invited speaker Thu Nov. 18, 2004. Chris actually called in from the Laboratory for Applied Ontology in Trento, Italy, where he is working with Nicola Guarino now, and gave the talk entitled: "An Overview of OntoClean". See: ConferenceCall_2004_11_18
  • The [ontolog] community had their 2nd face-to-face gathering, and a series of workshops and meeting in Washington DC during July 2004. See: OntologWorkshop_July_2004
  • Dr. Leo Obrst gave a presentation on "Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Systems" at our Conference_Call_2004-01-15 session.
  • First [ontolog] Meeting & Workshop: Wed~Fri, Nov. 5~7, 2003, San Francisco, California, USA. This first face-to-face meeting of the Ontolog community was colocated with and hosted by the OASIS UBL Technical Committee meeting. see: OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003

Publications & Deliverables

Projects

  • UblOntology - UBL Ontology Project
    • ProtegeKIF - Protege-KIF Project
    • CctRepresentation - CCT-Representation: Modeling / Formalizing Representation of ebXML Core Component Types - Findings & Recommendations
  • NhinRfi - (US) National Health Information Network, Request for Information - project to put together a joint response
  • UpperOntologySummit - the Upper Ontology Summit, co-organized by Ontolog and NIST with major public upper ontology custodians and other conveners and sponsors - March 15, 2006 (and all activities leading up to it) - initializing the OntologySummit series, a 3-month program that has been run annually ever since!
  • OntologizingOntolog - Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge
  • OntologyMeasurementEvaluation - Ontology Measurement and Evaluation - a joint NIST-Ontolog-NCOR initiative
  • DatabaseAndOntology - a mini-series of events focused on "Database and Ontology"
  • OntologyDrivenApplications - an inventory, assessment and ranking of ontology-driven applications ... see: OntologyDrivenApplications/TopFive
  • ONION - "ontologies In Ontology" - project to develop an ontological framework for IT Service Management (incorporating frameworks of ISO 20000 / COBIT / COSO extended by ISO Security Standards and aligned with OASIS BCM; thus SOA) ... more to come!
  • OntologySummit2007 - "Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions"
  • OKMDS - "Ontology in Knowledge Management and Decision Support: Making Better Decisions" - a joint NASA & Ontolog initiative, featuring a six-month mini-series of talks, panel discussions and online discourse in both 'real world' and 'virtual world' settings
  • OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) Initiative - founded 2008.01.03 - ref. ConferenceCall_2008_01_03.
  • OntologySummit2008 - "Toward An Open Ontology Repository"
  • BuildingServicePerformance - an Ontolog project to formalize how we describe the Purpose(s) of a Facility and the associated services expected from the building systems. We hope to include the beginning of a compliance framework as well. That is, how to understand and capture if the services being provided are in accordance with required performance metrics.
  • SemanticWiki mini-series - ref. the program planning meeting at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_18
  • EmergingOntologyShowcase mini-series - kick-off session: ConferenceCall_2008_09_25
  • IAOA - International Association for Ontology and its Applications - est. 29-Apr-2009 (Trento, Italy)
  • OntologySummit2009 - "Toward Ontology-based Standards"
  • [[OntologyBasedStandards] - sample projects, identified during OntologySummit2009
  • UoM_Ontology_Standard - "Quanity and Unit of Measure Ontology-based Standard"
  • SOCoP - Spatial Ontology Community of Practice
  • OntologySummit2010 - "Creating the Ontologists of the Future"
  • SharingIntegratingOntologies (SIO) - commenced 2010.03.16
  • OntologySummit2011 - "Making the Case for Ontology"
  • OntoIOp - Ontology Integration and Interoperability Standard (ISO NP 17347)
  • OntologiesAndStandards - a Joint IAOA-OOR-Ontolog mini-series - kick-off session: ConferenceCall_2011_10_20
  • OntologySummit2012 - "Ontology for Big Systems"
  • ModelingBenchmarkChallenge - a project that came out of Ontology Summit 2012 - started Apr-2012
  • EarthScienceOntolog - a Joint EarthCube-Ontolog Mini-series on "Ontology and Semantic Technology for the Earth Science Community" - established: ConferenceCall_2012_06_21
  • CommonLogic_V2 - established to bring about the revision of the Common Logic standard after the meeting of ConferenceCall_2012_09_20
  • OntologyBasedStandards - a Joint OASIS-OMG-ISO*-IAOA-OOR-Ontolog Initiative, launched: ConferenceCall_2012_10_25 .. (*various ISO working groups)
  • OntologySummit2013 - "Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle"
  • RulesReasoningLP - "Ontology, Rules, and Logic Programming for Reasoning and Applications"; launched: ConferenceCall_2013_10_24
  • OntologySummit2014 - "Big Data and Semantic Web Meet Applied Ontology"
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