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Ontology Summit 2007: OntologySummit2007_Survey individual responses
OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response input from Nabonita Guha
Please make sure you refer to the Ontology Summit 2007 & OntologySummit2007_Survey pages for the full context of the input.
Question 1 Respondant Info
Name: Nabonita Guha
Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)
[ ] Formal ontology communities
[ ] 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
[ ] XML communities
[ ] Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities
[ ] System Architecture communities
[ ] Biomedical communities
[ ] Standards Development communities
[ ] Other (please specify): Librarian
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
[ ] 15. Standards Development communities
[X] 16. Other (please specify): classification schemes (faceted)
Question 2b Specific Community
or sub-community I am affiliated with: classification system and indexing system community
Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an:
[ ] 1. informed layman
[X] 2. practitioner
[ ] 3. expert
[ ] 4. other (please specify): (Not Answered)
Question 3a Ontology Value -
"Ontology helps to express the domain knowledge more conviniently.
This ontology is further used to classify and index the thought
content of digital documents in digital libraries"
Question 3b Ontology Issues -
"The ontology is still to represent the data models which
classification community is using since years"
Question 3c Ontology Problems -
"In faceted classification community some basic (generic) facets
are already in use which is applied to all domains. These
basic facet is used to represent the basic structure of the
thought content of documents. Now, how shall we represent this
basic facets in ontology, so that the ontology should be useful
and interoperable across domains."
Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -
"Still under research ...."
Question 4aGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:
Term: Ontology
Gloss: The language/technique by which the real world knowledge can be
expressed in computer understandable and processible way
Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)
Artifact (name/version): OWL
- Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)
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
[ ] 2. 2 - rarely
[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes
[ ] 4. 4 - quite often
[X] 5. 5 - almost always
Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -
"(Not Answered)"
Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:
Term: Taxonomy
Gloss: This gives shows the child-parent relationship
Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)
Artifact (name/version): NICE Taxonomy Scheme
- Artifact Ref. (url): http://schema.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=353310
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 -
"(Not Answered)"
Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:
Term: Library Classification schemes
Gloss: The classification scheme is a collection of subject classes
Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered)
Artifact (name/version): Universal Decimal Classification; Colon Classification
- 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?
[ ] 1. 1 - totally unlikely
[ ] 2. 2 - rarely
[X] 3. 3 - sometimes
[ ] 4. 4 - quite often
[ ] 5. 5 - almost always
Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -
"Faceted classification is nearer to the concept of ontologies.
Faceted classification scheme is designed to express the
basic structure of the thought content of a document in
standard way, instead of just enumerating a group of subject classes."
Question 4dGlossary - 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 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
[ ] 2. 2 - rarely
[ ] 3. 3 - sometimes
[ ] 4. 4 - quite often
[ ] 5. 5 - almost always
Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -
"(Not Answered)"
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: Indian Statistical Institute
Link (url) to Logo: