Ontology Summit 2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses

OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from DeborahMacPherson

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Question 1 Respondant Info

Name: Deborah MacPherson

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

[ ] Formal ontology communities

[X] Semantic Web communities

[ ] Linguistic communities

[X] Concept Map community

[X] Topic Map community

[X] SEARCH communities

[ ] Web 2.0 communities

[ ] Thesauri community

[ ] Taxonomy communities

[ ] Metadata communities

[ ] XML communities

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

[ ] System Architecture communities

[ ] Biomedical communities

[X] Standards Development communities

[X] Other (please specify): BIM and CSI specifications

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: advocate for the general public

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

[ ] 3. expert

[X] 4. other (please specify): mix and match, depends on which aspect

Question 3a Ontology Value -

"A systematic way of looking inside databases established or maintained by others. Instructions for looking."

Question 3b Ontology Issues -

"Unfamiliarity with the terminology and what exists versus what we wish for.

Lack of uniform locations of subject matter. Lack of assembly process to

overlay and compare large quantities of nearly similar structured

specifications from project to project"

Question 3c Ontology Problems -

"Lack of uniform locations of subject matter. Lack of assembly process to

systematically break information down to a correct solid foundation, then

rebuild from the ground up. Lack of a way to overlay and compare large

quantities of nearly similar structured specifications from project to project"

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -

"Develop uniform locations of subject matters.

Share properties and data descriptions based on their number,

or address in mutual locations.

Use more visual languages and symbols rather than terms."

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

Term: performance

Gloss: requirement

Reference (citation/url): http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/sec_forums.asp?CID=11&DID=11&ForumId=2&TopicId=173

Artifact (name/version): CSI discussion re: section format task team discussion

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/sec_forums.asp

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -

"Specifying by performance requirements was developed in California

in the 70s because the state needed A LOT of schools to be built

quickly and cheaply. The government defined what they required by

a school, local architects and contractors were hired and schools

were built in every shape, size, color you can imagine. We need

performance requirements for the semantic web."

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

Term: assembly

Gloss: process of elimination and recombination

Reference (citation/url): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language

Artifact (name/version): not accurate

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

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -

"Assembly tools as envisioned do not currently exist."

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

Term: Editor

Gloss: Select and define

Reference (citation/url): http://www.pandora.com

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

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

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -

"Desire an editing process to be defined step by step when confronted

with new information. See data as a large grid or table too large

to search in the background and an ontology as a semi-automated

editor assistant to eliminate what does not belong, then

assemble into a picture."

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

Term: modeling

Gloss: properties assigned to object, model of the information not just the building

Reference (citation/url): http://faculty.arch.utah.edu/bim/Website%20Info/Articles/BIM%20articles/BIM-%20general/AIA%20BIM%20update%209-03.htm

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

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

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?

[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[X] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -

"BIM is concerned with spaces, relationships and properties. The closest

we come to words is keynotes and CSI section numbers. Also, external

references serve a critical role. Perhaps this may be like importing

lower and upper level ontologies."

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

Term: Keynote

Gloss: alphanumeric code describing a material or assembly

Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/doc_bookstore.asp?TRACKID=FromGoogleAd&CID=333&DID=10351

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -

"Standardized SHORT FORM system of encoding. Often the only link between

the specifications and drawings."

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

Term: multiple prime contracts

Gloss: simultaneous development with many responsible parties answering

to one owner for one building or set of buildings

Reference (citation/url): http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/doc_specifier_article.asp?TrackID=YDQSEQL4F2HTFW5T7G6BABDQWEDAVEW8&SID=1&DID=8714&CID=897&VID=19&RTID=0&CIDQS=&Taxonomy=False&specialSearch=False

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -

"We call this a project delivery method. Others include negotiated

contracts, gross maximum price (GMP, most common) and others. There is

no standardized way of contracting someone to come in and create

an ontology for your data."

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

Term: Requirements Document

Gloss (definition): Checklist interview, outline spec

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -

"Believe there is a way to make the requirements document process

easier with fewer errors and omissions."

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

Term: Errors and omissions

Gloss: depends

Reference (citation/url): http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/209/

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?

[X] 1. 1 - totally unlikely

[ ] 2. 2 - rarely

[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes

[ ] 4. 4 - quite often

[ ] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -

"Need to show project architects and data architects where they need

to make choices and fill in the blanks versus assemblies and components

they should leave alone because someone found out the hard way that

these work together."

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: Accuracy&Aesthetics

Link (url) to Logo: http://accuracyandaesthetics.com/45/

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Input previously posted to the wiki

Ontologies are standard methods for the interpretation of information. An ontology covers presentation, code writing, and processing. All ontologies together could be imagined in a pyramid, where the upper, governing, ontologies are broad and nearly constant. Ontologies geared to specific types of information have more variables, serving as templates for specific types of projects. [posted by DeborahMacPherson / 2007.02.01]