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Ontolog Workshop at the 7th International Protégé Conference - July 6, 2004

Workshop Title: Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions

Rationale / Solicitations

  • Rationale:
    • The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies
      • One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas
      • The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not.
      • This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community
    • Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration
    • The ontolog community wishes to take this opportunity to commence dialog with those who have the expertise in the ("lossless" or "lossy") conversion of Protege-based ontologies to OWL, RDF/S, XML/XSD, UML/UML-Class-Diagram, UML2/OCL, SQL, ... etc.
  • Topics of Interest:
    • Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)
      • Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (Kurt Conrad)
      • Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (Pat Cassidy)
      • Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (BillMcCarthy)
      • Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (Peter P. Yim)
    • Solicited Topics
      • Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development
      • Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies
      • Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise
      • Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows
      • Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools
      • Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models
      • Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas
      • Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project
      • Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs
  • Who should be coming?
    • individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological methodologies.
    • All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers.
    • those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing.

Date / Venue / Logistics

  • Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.06 13:30 - 17:30 EDT
  • Venue: Natcher Building (building 45 on the NIH Campus), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD.
  • Official Conference Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/
  • Registration & Logistics: refer to the official conference website. To attend this workshop, registration to the Protégé Conference is required.

Attendees

Agenda & Proceedings

Agenda

  • What follows is a tentative schedule. The presentation titles, for example, are subject to revision by the authors. We are targeting 20 minutes for each presentation with 10 minutes for follow-up discussion and "speaker switching logistics." Please forward any questions, issues, or corrections to Kurt Conrad or Bob Smith, as appropriate.
13:30 ... Welcome and Introductions
14:00 ... Kurt Conrad, "The Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams"
14:30 ... Pat Cassidy, "Importing SKIF files into Protégé: Considerations and Compromises"
15:00 ... Break
15:30 ... BillMcCarthy and Guido Geerts, "Modeling of Business Enterprises with the Resource-Event-Agent (REA) Ontology"
16:00 ... Evan Wallace, Nenad Anicic, NenadIvezic, Serm Kulvatunyou, "Experiences formalizing OAG eBusiness models in OWL, two perspectives" - Perspective-1, Perspective-2
16:30 ... Peter P. Yim, "Collaborating to Develop an Ontological Basis for E-Business Standards"
17:00 ... Bob Smith, "25 Years of Promise: Lessons Learned from Modeling Professional Practice"
17:25 ... Closing

Resources

Snapshots

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Remarks

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