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Ontology Summit 2012: Session-09 - Thu 2012-03-08
Summit Theme: OntologySummit2012: "Ontology for Big Systems"
Track (4) Title: Large-Scale Domain Applications
Session Topic: Large-scale domain applications - Biomedical, earth & environmental science & engineering
Session Chair: Dr. TrishWhetzel (NCBO; Stanford) and Dr. SteveRay (CMU) - intro slides
Panelists:
- Mr. DavidPrice (TopQuadrant) - "Experiences from a Large Scale Ontology-Based Application Development for Oil Platforms" - slides
- Dr. MichaelKellen (Sage Bionetworks) - "Collaborative Clinical Genomics Data Analysis with Sage Bionetworks Synapse" - slides
- Dr. DamianGessler (iPlant Collaborative) & Dr. BlazejBulka (Clark & Parsia) - "The iPlant Collaborative Semantic Web Platform: Using OWL and SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol) for On-Demand Semantic Pipelines" - slides
- Dr. IlyaZaslavsky (SDSC) - "Managing observation semantics in CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System" - slides
- Dr. LinePouchard (ORNL) - "Linked Science as a producer and consumer of big data in the Earth Sciences" - slides
Archives
- Abstract
- Agenda
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- [ 0-Chair ] . [ 1-Price ] . [ 2-Kellen ] . [ 3-Gessler+Bulka ] . [ 4-Zaslavsky ] . [ 5-Pouchard ]
- Audio recording of the session [ 1:45:21 ; mp3 ; 12.06 MB ] ... (coming!)
- transcript of the online chat during the session ... (raw transcript is now online; cleaned-up version coming later!)
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Conference Call Details
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Attendees
- Attendees (incl. registered attendees):
- Steve Ray (co-chair)
- Trish Whetzel (co-chair, in absentia)
- Mike Kellen
- Damian Gessler
- Blazej Bulka
- Ilya Zaslavsky
- Line Pouchard
- David Price
- Nancy Wiegand
- Peter P. Yim
- Leo Obrst
- Dimitris Kotzinos
- David Flater
- John Bilmanis
- Joel Bender
- Harold Boley
- Larry Lefkowitz
- Scott Hills
- Anatoly Levenchuk
- Amanda Vizedom
- Dennis Wisnosky
- Matthew West
- Jeffrey Wallk
- Frank Olken
- Christopher Spottiswoode
- GaryBergCross (Gary Berg-Cross)
- Katherine Goodier
- Pavithra Kenjige
- Michael Grüninger
- Jim Schoening
- Jim Rhyne
- Bob Schloss
- Elisa Kendall
- Ali Hashemi
- Bobbin Teegarden
- Bruce Bauman
- ByronDavies
- Doug Foxvog
- Eric Chan
- Ernani Santos
- GiulianoLancioni
- Henson Graves
- James Odell
- Kathy Ellis
- Mike Bennett
- Ram D. Sriram
- Simon Spero
- Terry Longstreth
- Todd Schneider
- Thomas Getgood
- Tom Tinsley
- Carlos Rueda
- Ravi Sharma
- Nikolay Borgest
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- (please add yourself to the list if you are a member of the Ontolog or Ontology Summit community, or, rsvp to <peter.yim@cim3.com>)
- Regrets:
- Nicola Guarino
- Trish Whetzel
Abstract
Large-Scale Domain Applications - II : Biomedical, earth & environmental science & engineering
This is our 9th Ontology Summit, a joint initiative by NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD with the support of our co-sponsors. The theme adopted for this Ontology Summit is: "Ontology for Big Systems." The event today is our 9th virtual session.
The principal goal of the summit is to bring together and foster collaboration between the ontology community, systems community, and stakeholders of some of "big systems." Together, the summit participants will exchange ideas on how ontological analysis and ontology engineering might make a difference, when applied in these "big systems." We will aim towards producing a series of recommendations describing how ontologies can create an impact; as well as providing illustrations where these techniques have been, or could be, applied in domains such as bioinformatics, electronic health records, intelligence, the smart electrical grid, manufacturing and supply chains, earth and environmental, e-science, cyberphysical systems and e-government. As is traditional with the Ontology Summit series, the results will be captured in the form of a communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web.
The large-scale domain applications track will help to ground the discussions in the other tracks and bring key challenges to light by describing current large-scale systems and systems of systems that either use, or could use, ontologies in their deployment. "Large-scale" can mean either very large data sets, very complex data sets, federated systems, highly distributed systems, or real-time, continuous data systems. Examples of large data sets might include scientific observations and studies; complex data sets could be technical data packages for manufactured products, or electronic health records; federated systems could include information sharing to combat terrorism, highly distributed systems includes items such as the smart electrical grid (aka Smart Grid), and real-time systems include network management systems. Of course, some big systems might include all five aspects.
Today's speakers will describe experiences in adapting ontology technology for biomedical applications, biological plant studies, earth science, a hydrology system, and the oil and gas industry. As with the prior session in this track, each presentation will try to highlight what systems engineering or operational functions were impacted by the use of ontology, and how. These examples have been chosen to help ground the discussions in the other summit tracks of where ontology could or should be used.
More details about this Summit at: OntologySummit2012 (home page for the summit)
Agenda
Ontology Summit 2012 - Panel Session-09
- Session Format: this is a virtual session conducted over an augmented conference call
- 1. Opening - co-chairs [5 min.] ... [ slides ]
- 2. Panel briefings - [12 min. each]
- David Price
- Mike Kellen
- Abstract: The past two decades have seen an exponential growth in the technical ability to generate genetic and biomolecular data fueled by advances in measurement technologies. However, with a few exceptions, these data have failed to improve prevention or treatment of common human disease. A fundamental reason for this discrepancy between data generation and clinical improvement is the immature development of analytical techniques to meaningfully interpret these new data types. As with any new field, analytical methodologies need to be iteratively developed and refined. The difficulty of accessing, understanding, and reusing data, analysis methods, or models of disease across multiple labs with complimentary fields of expertise is a major barrier to the effective interpretation of genomic data today. Additionally, much of the relevant data to answer a particular research question is spread among multiple public and private repositories. Sage Bionetworks' mission is to catalyze a cultural transition from the traditional single lab, single-company, and single-therapy research paradigm to a model founded on broad precompetitive collaboration on analysis of large-scale biological data. In this talk we will focus on the technology component of Sage Bionetworks' solution strategy, Synapse, an informatics platform for open data-driven collaborative research. Synapse provides programmatic access to a variety of clinical and genomic data sets, tracking of analysis workflows, and integration with common analysis tools like R/Bioconductor.
- Damian Gessler & Blazej Bulka
- Ilya Zaslavsky
- Line Pouchard
- 3. Q & A and open discussion [All: ~30 min.] -- please refer to process above
- 4. Wrap-up / Announcements - (co-chairs)
Proceedings
Please refer to the above
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(for better clarity, the version below is a re-organized and lightly edited chat-transcript.)
Participants are welcome to make light edits to their own contributions as they see fit.
-- begin in-session chat-transcript --
Peter P. Yim: Welcome to the
Ontology Summit 2012: Session-09, Thursday 2012-03-08
Summit Theme: Ontology Summit 2012: "Ontology for Big Systems"
Track (4) Title: Large-Scale Domain Applications
Session Topic: Large-scale domain applications - Biomedical, earth & environmental science & engineering
Session Chairs: Dr. Trish Whetzel (NCBO; Stanford) and Dr. Steve Ray (CMU)
Panelists:
- Mr. David Price (TopQuadrant)
- "Experiences from a Large Scale Ontology-Based Application Development for Oil Platforms"
- Dr. Michael Kellen (Sage Bionetworks)
- "Collaborative Clinical Genomics Data Analysis with Sage Bionetworks Synapse"
- Dr. Damian Gessler (iPlant Collaborative) & Dr. Blazej Bulka (Clark & Parsia)
- "The iPlant Collaborative Semantic Web Platform: Using OWL and SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol) for On-Demand Semantic Pipelines"
- Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
- "Managing observation semantics in CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System"
- Dr. Line Pouchard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
- "Linked Science as a producer and consumer of big data in the Earth Sciences"
Session page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2012_03_08
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Proceedings:
anonymous morphed into Damian Gessler
anonymous morphed into Christopher Spottiswoode
anonymous1 morphed into David Flater
anonymous morphed into Jim Schoening
anonymous morphed into David Price
anonymous morphed into Michael Kellen
anonymous morphed into Jim Rhyne
anonymous morphed into Scott Hills
anonymous morphed into ByronDavies
anonymous morphed into Pavithra Kenjige
Line Pouchard: testing
Peter P. Yim: == David Price presenting ...
anonymous morphed into Elisa Kendall
Mike Bennett: Does the reported data include SCADA data from on-platform systems such as Fire and
Gas, ESD and so on? Just curious.
David Price: The date is about Drilling and Production. Some of it is measurement, but not really
SCADA.
Mike Bennett: @David thanks. Just seeing an opportunity there.
Ernani Santos morphed into Ernani Santos
anonymous morphed into Thomas Getgood
Doug Foxvog: What is "warm fallover"?
Harold Boley: Re Slide 10: Would the 300 million triples be structured/modularized in some way, e.g.
as named graphs?
David Price: The triples are managed in graphs based on Licenses for Fields in the sea. This allows
us to control the set of data over which aggregations and queries are allowed and also allows us to
use these graphs as the basis for access control and security.
Michael Grüninger: @David -- you say that it is hard to test an ontology. Can you share any of your
ontologies which we can test?
anonymous morphed into DWiz
Amanda Vizedom: @David - to what extend do you think the "vague/ambiguous" character of the
ontologies or their documentation (your slide 17) is a result of the application type being
comparatively shallow (that is, not too much axiomatization or reasoning)?
David Price: I attribute vague-ness entirely to projects running out of money - in fact I have heard
that from the people who created some of the background ontologies/reference data we are re-using.
David Price: I cannot yet share the ontologies, but they will be made public eventually ... probably
3Q2012. The project is not yet complete, the Drilling stuff is going into production use this month.
The Production use will follow between now and June/July.
DWiz: David: Do you have a mandatory XDS? Otherwise, how to you generate a true ontology from XML?
David Price: Our 'XSD Proxy Ontology' capability does not try to create a 'true ontology' - as the
name suggests it's a proxy for the XSD that allow us to import an XML data file into the workspace
and do SPARQL over it directly through the proxy ontology-based triples.
Amanda Vizedom: @David - Have you tried developing test beds and test apps with which to evaluate the
ontologies? Given the well-developed application context, this seems like an approach you could use
to ontology testing & proofing.
David Price: We are just now getting into the detailed use of proper software testing tools to try to
do a better job wrt testing our ontology. We are working on large, complete test cases, test
scenarios, automated tests using REST-like services, etc. to make testing the ontology fit into the
more traditional testing apparatus used by our software team.
Amanda Vizedom: @David - Ah, yes, I see what you mean. Not unlike undocumented code from abandoned
software projects, then.
David Price: FWIW we use Github for the source code/ontology management and SpiraTest for the testing
tool.
David Price: TopBraid Composer is an eclipse-based tool and that's what we use to develop ontology
and SPIN/SPARQL/SWP.
David Price: I have to leave for a while but will respond to any other questions in 30 mins or so.
Thanks!
Steve Ray: Thanks David. Fascinating talk.
Amanda Vizedom: @David - I can't remember who it was, now, but one presenter earlier in the summit
discussed an approach in which they used "real" (sound, computational) ontologies but also
intermediate artifacts that are ontological in format (OWL) but are not used (or usable) as
ontologies; rather, they are fairly direct models of the data source's data model. This is similar
to what you describe, yes?
David Price: @Amanda For ontologies of a domain, we usually follow Leo Orbst use of the term 'Strong
ontologies' meaning they are about the domain of interest.
David Price: @Amanda - wrt direct models of the data source ... yes, we call that a proxy ontology.
Amanda Vizedom: @David - Thanks. I think a similar approach is used for the DoD EIW. Independently,
we discussed using something like "proxy ontologies" on the USAF project. Though non-technical
factors/authorities mooted that discussion, I thought (think) that it was promising. I sense a
pattern.
David Price: @Amanda For us the main thing is to use a semantic language like SPARQL to define the
transforms between data sources and targets and so everything must be presented as at least RDF, and
preferably as an OWL ontology.
David Price: We also have ontologies of SPARQL, etc. which we often call 'system ontologies' as in
software system ... just to confuse things even more
Amanda Vizedom: @David - though I did and do think there needs to be some explicit (meta)data on/in
the proxy ontology to make clear that it is not a full ontology - that is, under the formal
semantics of the language used, it would not likely be computationally sound.
Mike Bennett: @Amanda et al - we need a metaontology. Or at least an ISO 1087 compliant terminology
and vocabulary setting out rather less messy uses of words like "Ontology" - people think they are
listening about the same thing when someone is talking about a different thing - dog food much?
David Price: We have a taxonomy of ontology-related artifacts we use (and modify as required in
various projects). It can be used as metadata but we also use it in the base of the URIs for things
and even in the name of graphs so it's visible to the ontologies/software developer.
David Price: We actually often use the phrase 'schema' when we mean the 'ontology' in many projects
because customers are more familiar with that terminology. We then have graphs that are
transforms', that are 'swp', that are 'spin', that are 'testcase', etc. as you would in a typical
software development team.
Amanda Vizedom: @Mike - Yup. And we've probably gotten far enough along since we started saying that
that we could actually build one, identifying main types of artifact. We would then run into the
problem of every domain, in that we would disagree over what to call the various types. Were we then
to get over the names problem (via multiple, contextual labels and/or other techniques), we'd then
have a very useful product *and* a useful methodological example!
David Price: @Amanda We have published some work on a metadata for ontology at
http://linkedmodel.org/doc/vaem/1.2/ Vocabulary for Essential Metadata ... Ralph Hodgson has pushed
that effort.
Peter P. Yim: == Mike Kellen presenting ...
anonymous morphed into GiulianoLancioni
Simon Spero: @MichaelKellen: SKOS is for controlled vocabularies; SKOS concepts are "Subjects", not
the things that subjects are about"
Simon Spero: @Michael: is that the intended semantics
Michael Kellen: Yes, we aren't trying to create a model of the relationships among domain objects
that we can reason about
Michael Kellen: We are simply trying to consistently structure information to help scientists pull
together appropriate data so that they can reason about it
Simon Spero: @Michael: as long as it's just for guiding people to data sets, that's a safe use
Michael Kellen: There are other projects in life sciences trying to use the richer semantics to
actually model the domain
Michael Kellen: The problem they hit is that there are so many unknowns in our domain that this is
hard to do
Simon Spero: @Michael: right - it's just important to keep the distinctions clear so that a KOS isn't
used directly an ontology
Mike Bennett: @Simon @Michael we have a labeling problem: if we get into the habit of referring to
everything that is in triple-store formats as "An ontology" then we need a new word for ontologies.
Syntax is not semantics...
Peter P. Yim: == Damian Gessler presenting ...
Bobbin Teegarden: @Damian where is are the transformation decisions made between services in the
pipeline?
Damian Gessler: @BobbinTeegarden third-parties hosting SSWAP semantic web services run a servlet that
we provide from our Software Development Kit. This servlet handles the semantics and ensures that
both input and output follow the protocol. So at the pipeline end, we can look at the outputs and
required inputs, and orchestrate the interaction. Third-party data need not pass through us: it goes
directly from the upstream service to the downstream service.
Bobbin Teegarden: @Damian Thank you, grand.
Doug Foxvog: How do you deal when a large number of possible services are available at one point?
E.g., there may be hundreds of services available for converting images from Format A to Format B.
Damian Gessler: @DougFoxvog The key is in service choice prioritization--just like Google prioritizes
web pages on its search results page. But here, we are not nearly as sophisticated as Google and
currently use a very simple algorithm. We'll put focus here down the road a little.
Amanda Vizedom: @Damian - There are many similarities between the iPlant approach you describe and
the Semantic SOA - service discovery approach being developed by USAF. I think that the approach
used in the DoD EIW is also strongly similar (perhaps DWiz - Dennis Wisnosky - will comment). In each
case, ontologies are primarily being used to provide semantic description, model, or wrapper for
(mostly natively non-semantic) data services, and ontological reasoning and search technologies are
used to enable service discovery given user needs. Your statement about ontology alignment, however,
stands out. I understand service matching operationally and ephemerally based on reasoning over
lightly-aligned ontologies. But you seem to be saying something else, that the alignment of the
locally-developed ontologies in which the services are described is not manual, not static, and not
axiomatic. Can you say something more about how you align, or connect, or reason across such
ontologies without any prior / stable alignment points?
Damian Gessler: @AmandaVizedom The key is that we are not aligning ontologies on *data* per se; we
let services make the mapping statements (e.g., the (possibly complex) data they take in and the
(possibly complex) data they give back. So we "simply" need to determine and operate on subsumption
questions: can this service operate on my data and return what I want? This is essentially a
dynamic, operational alignment question.
Peter P. Yim: == Ilya Zaslavsky presenting ...
anonymous morphed into Carlos Rueda
Simon Spero: @Ilya: if the hierarchies are genuine hierarchies - that is, subordinate terms always
entail the superordinate term, then you have traditional Knowledge Organization System semantics
Elisa Kendall: @Ilya, have you used any vocabulary such as ISO 1087 to define relationships such as
synonomy, polysemy, etc.? Just wondering ...
Matthew West: Sorry I have to go.
Bobbin Teegarden: @Ilya what did you use for the visualizations, and how well received were they?
Ilya Zaslavsky: @BobbinTeegarden: Inxight startree, semantic wiki, also recently Silverlight.
Hydrologists were comfortable using Inxight startree in the tagging application
Ilya Zaslavsky: @ElisaKendall: no, we haven't. This sounds interesting. The current plan is to use
SKOS
Ilya Zaslavsky: @SimonSpero. No, in many cases these are not trees. We try to present them as trees
where possible
Harold Boley: @Elisa, do you use SBVR rules for mapping?
Elisa Kendall: @Ilya: I have a draft ontology for ISO 1087 that we're planning to standardize at OMG,
together with ISO TC 37. I'm guessing that we will be publishing a draft sometime this
spring/summer, with one of the goals being to use it to assist in mapping SBVR vocabularies to
ODM/OWL. If you'd like to chat more about this offline, please feel free to contact me directly, at
ekendall at thematix.com.
Ilya Zaslavsky: @ElisaKendall, thanks Elisa, I'd be interested
Elisa Kendall: @Harold, not so far, but Mark Linehan (IBM) has been doing some work in this area for
a Date Time vocabulary we're creating at OMG. The current alpha (or maybe beta) spec is available at
http://www.omg.org/spec/DTV/1.0/Beta1/, but doesn't include much of the OWL work we've been doing
more recently in finalization.
Elisa Kendall: @Harold, you might take a look even at the Beta spec for the Date Time effort, as it
does include some OCL and CLIF statements for the SBVR definitions, which we're still refining, but
could give you a better sense of what the SBVR actually is intended to say .
Harold Boley: @Elisa, thanks, I just opened the huge http://www.omg.org/spec/DTV/1.0/Beta1/ PDF.
Frank Olken: @ElisaKendall The URL you posted for DTV yields a 404 (page missing) error ...
Elisa Kendall: @Frank, hmmm... for me it downloads, so I'm glad you were able to get to it.
Elisa Kendall: @Harold, Sorry , but hopefully you'll find it useful. When we've added the OWL it will
only get bigger ... as you might imagine, but I think the result could provide a next generation OWL
Time ontology, and includes a number of business oriented definitions.
Mike Bennett: Is it the mental model of hydraulogists that doesn't map to Protege, or that fact that
to use Protege you first need a mental model of ontology, since Protege in no way presents a visual
or other model of ontology to the person looking at it.
Frank Olken: @ElisaKendall The DTV link that Harold Boley posed seems to work.
Harold Boley: @Frank, my quote of the URL omitted the comma, wrongly assumed to be part of the URL by
the chat software.
Mike Bennett: @Frank et al - there is a rogue comma in the original URL.
Harold Boley: @Elisa, yes it looks very exhaustive. Can I mentioned it in the OASIS TC on
Elisa Kendall: @Harold - Yes, of course, and please give people the link to the specification. Our
next iteration will have more OWL, and ultimately we will have a set of OWL ontologies corresponding
to the SBVR
Peter P. Yim: == Line Pouchard presenting ...
Line Pouchard: @Peter: I sent you a new set of slides that contain page numbers. Would you have time
to upload them?
Peter P. Yim: @Line - ack .... will try now
Michael Grüninger: my copy has page numbers
GiulianoLancioni: mine too
Jim Rhyne: So does mine.
Amanda Vizedom: Copy just downloaded from refreshed call page does have the page numbers.
Doug Foxvog: The link to the slides is the same. Re-download & you'll get the page numbers
Steve Ray: Strange, I just did this and do not get slide numbers...
anonymous morphed into Nancy Wiegand
Doug Foxvog: @Line: attaching multiple textual terms to individual ontology terms would assist in
search, not relying on searching only on the ontology term's name.
Peter P. Yim: == Steve Ray moderating the open discussion ...
Simon Spero: [ref. MichaelGruninger's verbal comment] Testing; Competency or performance?
Line Pouchard: DataONE is offering an Internship program for Summer 2012 at
http://www.dataone.org/internships. I am co-mentoring for Project #7 to continue the work described
today. In particular, this work needs to extend parts of the SWEET ontologies w.r.t soil science,
and a candidate with domain knowledge would be ideal. The intern works remotely from their own
institution for ten weeks. The deadline is March 12. Please share with your students.
Peter P. Yim: @ALL - the memory and the work of Dr. Robert Raskin
(http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RobRaskin ) who passed away last Friday, will be with us.
Rob was the PI of the SWEET Ontology (Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology) project,
and an active contributor to this community
Mike Bennett: [ref. IlyaZaslavsky's comment about domain experts having problems with Protege, and
PeterYim's comment about limitations imposed by the expressivity of the tools or the language being
used] Expressivity versus what is expressed - these are two distinct matters.
Larry Lefkowitz: And formalism vs content is another distinction. Having a great grammar but a small
vocabulary is certainly going to limit expressivity. Yes, in theory you can create new vocabulary on
the fly, but that could easily overtake the initial modeling task.
Mike Bennett: Exactly. you can have a very expressive model of data, but it's still a model of data.
Or you can have a more or less expresive model of real things in the problem domain, and it's an
ontology.
Elisa Kendall: @Frank, the units/dimensions part of the model is limited, fyi, but the SysML effort
for quantities and units and this units model are in the process of being aligned now at OMG, with
the SysML version being more comprehensive, as you might imagine/hope.
David Flater: @Steve What happened with OASIS Quantities & Units of Measure Ontology?
David Price: There is also the QUDT ontology from NASA Ames that was input to the OASIS QUOMOS
activity ... http://qudt.org/
Elisa Kendall: @David, Folks from OMG who are working on the SysML QUDV effort are looking at
alignment with that as well, fyi, but I don't know much about the differences. I have heard there
are some, which they are working through, and that JPL is involved along with ESA.
Ilya Zaslavsky: @LinePouchard: do you know if there are already soil vocabularies available in some
form? Is there any relationship with SoilML? CZO project would be interested in this.
Line Pouchard: @Ilya: yes, I had talked to Nancy W. about this, and last Fall, SoilML was not
released yes.
Damian Gessler: Thank you
GaryBergCross: bye all
Peter P. Yim: great session!
Steve Ray: Thanks everybody for making the session stimulating.
Peter P. Yim: -- session ended: 11:26am PST --
-- end of in-session chat-transcript --
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Additional Resources
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- Ontology Summit 2012 Launch Event - ConferenceCall_2012_01_12
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-02 "Ontology for Big Systems: What's In Scope" - ConferenceCall_2012_01_19
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-03 "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - I : The Systems and Systems Engineering Problem Space" - ConferenceCall_2012_01_26
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-04 - "Ontology for Big Systems & Systems Engineering - II : a response to the problem space and setting out the working program for this Summit Track" - ConferenceCall_2012_02_02
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-05 - "Meeting Big Data Challenges through Ontology - I" - ConferenceCall_2012_02_09
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-06 - "Large-Scale Domain Applications I" - ConferenceCall_2012_02_16
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-07 - "Implementing Ontology Quality Measures in Big Systems Engineering" - ConferenceCall_2012_02_23
- Ontology Summit 2012 session-08 - "Ontology for Federation and Integration of Systems" - ConferenceCall_2012_03_01
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