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Question 1 Respondant Info 

Name:  lisa dawn colvin 

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

[X]  Formal ontology communities

[  ]  Semantic Web communities

[X]  Linguistic communities

[  ]  Concept Map community

[  ]  Topic Map community

[X]  SEARCH communities

[X]  Web 2.0 communities

[X]  Thesauri community

[X]  Taxonomy communities

[X]  Metadata communities

[  ]  XML communities

[  ]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities

[X]  System Architecture communities

[X]  Biomedical communities

[  ]  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

[X]  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

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

Question 2b Specific Community 

or sub-community I am affiliated with:  innovation - uses of web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise 

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 - 

"enable collaboration between participants with a shared vocabulary" 

Question 3b Ontology Issues - 

"people don't understand the value of governance of terms - nor the value 

of having hierarchical relationships - as they see ontologies only 

as facilitating browsing of documents" 

Question 3c Ontology Problems - 

"often ontology is compared alongside folksonomy as an equivalent concept." 

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions - 

"community - further work on dimensions of ontologies - not only around 

semantic expressivity, but also in enablement of social collaboration .   

more use cases on where to use different levels of ontologies (semantic expressivity)" 

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

Term:  folksonomy

Gloss:  an ontology created by the users

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  Social Bookmarking tags

- Artifact Ref. (url):  del.icio.us 

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

[X]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks - 

"Often - for defining interfaces for portals or collaboration spaces

- it is said that we need to enable folksonomies rather than create 

controlled vocabularies like "ontologies"" 

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

Term:  tag cloud

Gloss:  a group of tags of varying sizes, depending on popularity

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered)

- Artifact Ref. (url):  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ 

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

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[X]  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:  (Not Answered)

Gloss:  (Not Answered)

Reference (citation/url):  (Not Answered)

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? 

[  ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely

[  ]  2. 2 - rarely

[  ]  3. 3 - sometimes

[  ]  4. 4 - quite often

[  ]  5. 5 - almost always 

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks - 

"(Not Answered)" 

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 [[OntologySummit2007|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 [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]], 

[  ]  I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]]

[  ]  I will consider endorsing the [[OntologySummit2007|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 

[[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] (details below). 

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation: 

Organization Name:  (Not Answered)

Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered) 

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