Ontology Summit 2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from Carl Mattocks

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Question 1 Respondant Info

Name: carl mattocks

Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)

[X] Formal ontology communities

[X] Semantic Web communities

[ ] Linguistic communities

[ ] Concept Map community

[ ] Topic Map community

[ ] SEARCH communities

[ ] Web 2.0 communities

[X] Thesauri community

[ ] Taxonomy communities

[X] Metadata communities

[X] XML communities

[X] Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[X] System Architecture communities

[ ] Biomedical communities

[X] Standards Development communities

[ ] Other (please specify): (Not Answered)

Question 2a Representing - I represent the perspective of the following constituency/community (please pick one; if you want to provide input from more than one perspective, please return a separate form):

[ ] 1. Formal ontology communities

[ ] 2. Semantic Web communities

[ ] 3. Linguistic communities

[ ] 4. Concept Map community

[ ] 5. Topic Map community

[ ] 6. SEARCH communities

[ ] 7. Web 2.0 communities

[ ] 8. Thesauri community

[ ] 9. Taxonomy communities

[ ] 10. Metadata communities

[ ] 11. XML communities

[ ] 12. Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[ ] 13. System Architecture communities

[ ] 14. Biomedical communities

[X] 15. Standards Development communities

[ ] 16. Other (please specify): (Not Answered)

Question 2b Specific Community

or sub-community I am affiliated with: OASIS TC BCM & Registry / Repository

Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an:

[ ] 1. informed layman

[ ] 2. practitioner

[X] 3. expert

[ ] 4. other (please specify): (Not Answered)

Question 3a Ontology Value -

"OWL Provides an active classification system for XML artifacts"

Question 3b Ontology Issues -

"Education - fellow practitioners want to understand how it relates

to their work on system architecture / business framework that

includes internet enabled services"

Question 3c Ontology Problems -

"Problem is one of too many choices. Beginners have to choose between various standards

e.g flavours of WC3 OWL, SKOS, ISO Common Logic, OMG Ontology Models"

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -

"If the authors of different Ontology-centric standards cannot differentiate

between themselves (in simple language) then a reputable institution (NIST ?)

should publish a guideline that helps potential users make an informed choice

about what is appropriate for intended use"

Question 4aGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: RegistryObject

Gloss: is an abstract base class used by most classes in the model.

It provides minimal metadata for registry objects

Reference (citation/url): ebXML Registry Profile for Web Ontology

Artifact (name/version): Version 1.0

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/19037/regrep-owl-profile-1.5-July4.pdf

Question 4a1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -

"The Specialized Object definition is part of an institutionally managed

open source specification that has a very specific context. Use of the

'contextual prefix method' to state the specialization of a very generic

term is essential to convey some meaning."

Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: Model

Gloss: A set of inter-related documents that describe an IT service

or system. Each model consists of two disjoint subsets of

documents genic documents and phenic documents.

Reference (citation/url): Service Modeling Language

Artifact (name/version): Version 0.5, 25 July 2006

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.serviceml.org/

Question 4b1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -

"Term is found in the Terminology section of the public specification.

Term is widely used by the target community (system architects) to

describe other things."

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: WSML-DL

Gloss: This language is an extension of WSML-Core which fully captures

the Description Logic SHIQ(D), which captures a major part of

the (DL species of the) Web Ontology Language OWL [OWL], with

a datatype extension based on OWL-E [Pan and Horrocks, 2004], wh...

Reference (citation/url): Web Service Modeling Language (WSML)

Artifact (name/version): W3C Member Submission 3 June 2005

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.w3.org/Submission/WSML/

Question 4c1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[X] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -

"Term is an invention of the public specification (subject matter is

clearly ontological). Essentially is a compound term that requires

full understanding of each component term. The use of the "dash" seems

to break rules for making ontological statements."

Question 4dGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: Plan and Organize

Gloss: The Planning and Organization domain covers the use of

information & technology and how best it can be used in

a company to help achieve the company's goals and objectives

Reference (citation/url): COBIT

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.isaca.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Members_and_Leaders/COBIT6/Obtain_COBIT/CobiT4.1_Brochure.pdf

Question 4d1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -

"Term is a high level descriptor of multiple acts. It is one key concept

of a "best practice" set. However using the emebedded "and" seems to

break the rules-of-thumb as to what can be a formal ontological assertion."

Question 4eGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: (Not Answered)

Gloss: (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4e1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

Question 4fGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: (Not Answered)

Gloss: (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4f1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

Question 4gGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: (Not Answered)

Gloss (definition): (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4g1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

Question 4hGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: (Not Answered)

Gloss: (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4h1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,

a 'convener' is a participant who provides substantive contribution to the Ontology Summit 2007

initiative (through the online discourse, this survey, and other events leading to or during

the workshops and the written communique process), and

a 'co-sponsor' is an organization who is providing technical or funding support (e.g. supporting

member(s) of its technical staff to participate as a 'convener'), and/or endorsing the objective

of this Ontology Summit 2007,

[ ] I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of Ontology Summit 2007

[ ] I will consider endorsing the Ontology Summit 2007 communique. Please send it to me for

review when it is ready. I will confirm my endorsement after the review.

[ ] I confirm that you may list my organization as a 'co-sponsor' for

Ontology Summit 2007 (details below).

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:

Organization Name: (Not Answered)

Link (url) to Logo: (Not Answered)

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