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Session Planning
Duration 1 hour
Date/Time December 18 2019 17:00 GMT
9:00am PST/12:00pm EST
5:00pm GMT/6:00pm CET
Convener Ken Baclawski

Ontology Summit 2020 Summit Planning

Agenda

  • The session will continue planning the main summit sessions. The draft schedule is shown below. We should now begin filling in the slots.
  • The draft summit schedule is the following:
Date Session
22 January Kickoff Session The tracks and schedule will be overviewed
29 January Session #1
05 February Session #2 Matthew West
12 February Session #3
19 February Session #4
26 February Session #5
04 March Session #6
11 March Session #7
18 March Session #8
25 March Session #9
01 April Session #10
08 April Session #11
15 April Session #12
22 April Session #13
29 April Session #14
06 May Session #15
13 May Session #16
20 May Session #17
27 May Session #18
03 June Session #19
10 June Planning for Symposium
15 June Symposium Day 1
16 June Symposium Day 2
  • Each session should identify the primary theme (and secondary themes) being addressed. An attempt will be made to address the themes in the following order:
  1. Whence - History
  2. Who, Where, When - Use Cases
  3. Why - From data to business value
  4. How - Details of mechanics
  5. Whither - Future directions
  6. What - Synthesis sessions only
  • Each speaker will generally be scheduled for multiple weeks.
  • The next two Wednesdays are Christmas and New Year's Day. Other holiday seasons are nearly the same: Kwanzaa is the week between them, and חֲנוּכָּה (Hanukkah) starts a little earlier (next Sunday at sunset). Best wishes for the holidays to everyone!

Conference Call Information

  • Date: Wednesday, 18-December-2019
  • Start Time: 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET / 5:00pm GMT / 1700 UTC
  • Expected Call Duration: 1 hour
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Proceedings

  • What: Overview and background for the summit sessions. All sessions will be explicitly or implicitly addressing this theme.
    • KGs are a vehicle for realizing the benefits of ontology engineering.
    • KGs combine existing ideas in a package that frequently works in practice to deliver value for large organizations.
    • KGs provide a new root metaphor and motivation that is driving interest in ontology engineering.
    • This is driving investment in development, integration, interoperation and organization by large entities, both individual enterprises and entire industries.
    • KGs can be an enabler for tools and methods from AI and semantic technologies.
  • Whence
    • The historical perspective
    • Knowledge as open, loose, fuzzy, emergent
    • Analogies and metaphors
  • Who, Where, When
    • Use case specifics for individual enterprises and industries
  • Why
    • General big picture of KGs, as opposed to use cases
    • The full cycle realization from data to business results
    • Evaluation and management of quality and efficiency
  • How
    • Vendors are developing technologies based on graph-based methods.
    • A wide-spread graph-based culture is emerging, including conferences and training.
    • The culture includes aspects such as `data thinking' and `ontological thinking'.
    • Promotion of dialog to promote mutual understanding
  • Whither
    • Emerging standards
    • Research challenges
    • Speculation about future directions

Discussion

[12:10] Jack Ring: How shall we warn about KG pathologies such as Faults (Quality (Zero Defects)), Failures, Fictions?

[12:13] MikeBennett: @Jack sounds like a good talk title: 'Knowledge Graphs: Faults, Failures and Fictions'

[12:15] MikeBennett: 'Knowledge Graphs: Whence and Whither?'

[12:16] MikeBennett: Maybe these can be a series of talks that alliterates?

[12:22] MikeBennett: There is a new non-profit called the Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation. We should invite them to present.

[12:25] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: Mike- do they have a website yet?

[12:27] RaviSharma: Mike - good suggestion

[12:35] RaviSharma: It is a good reordering of what except investments twice?

[12:41] janet singer: (Off of Jacks and Mikes points) KGs are a way to introduce people to the importance of working with both semantic technologies and general semantics principles

[12:43] RaviSharma: Under the category WHY we could also address arriving at target results with or without the use of KGs using semantics / ontologies!

[12:45] RaviSharma: sort of comparison of with use of KGs and without (using some other methodology than KGs)?

[12:46] MikeBennett: @Janet that sounds good.

[12:47] MikeBennett: @Ravi comparisons of with and without are a great thing to explore. I have banks asking for this kind of information.

[12:48] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: W3C calls it linked data of course

[12:48] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: That group is currently pretty active (I'm on the listserv)

[12:51] MikeBennett: Standards is a good idea. So is linkages to various concepts and technologies i.e. semantic networks (Cog Science); AI and NLP; Linked Data (W3C); Ontology based applications (OWL) etc. There are standards for some of these but that's a distinct point.

[12:56] Mark Underwood @knowlengr: @Mike +1

[13:05] Gary: Discussion of kickoff and how we will provide a vision of the sessions and issues.

[13:05] Gary: Amit Sheth can provide some history of KGs, early in the sequence.

[13:08] MikeBennett: Dave McComb - good speaker proposal.

[13:08] MikeBennett: I know those guys

[13:10] AlexShkotin: Have a nice time!

[13:12] janet singer: Order: Kickoff, Whence - History, Who where when - Use Cases, Why from data to business value, Whither - future directions

[13:15] janet singer: Forgot How - details of mechanics, maybe after Why and before Whither

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