OntologySummit2022

Ontology Summit 2022

The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year's theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.

Description

Ontology Summit 2022 Theme and Tracks

Theme: Dealing with Disasters

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as other pandemics and disasters have prompted an impressive, worldwide response by governments, industry, and the academic community. Ontologies can play a significant role in search, data description, interoperability and harmonization of the increasingly large data sources that are relevant to disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This summit will examine the role that ontologies can play in disasters. The first track will be an overview of the notion of disaster. The other tracks will examine how the different kinds of disaster are employing ontologies.

Summit Chair: Ravi Sharma

• Track 1: Disaster attributes
  • There are several incompatible definitions for the notion of disaster and for related terminology by national and international agencies.
  • The information needed for the complex events of predicting, monitoring, mitigating and managing disasters and risks is complex and spans many organizations (both governmental and non-governmental), countries, languages and cultures.
  • Some examples of disaster attributes include: geo-temporal extent, categories of risks and types of disasters, and sources, such as natural and deliberate.
• Track 2: Pandemics
  • Ongoing pandemics include tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19.
• Track 3: Environment Disasters
  • Examples include climate change, environmental pollution, wildfires, floods and habitat loss.
• Track 4: Space Disasters
  • Some examples include:
    • Debris
    • Artificial satellites
    • Asteroids / Comets
    • Solar activity & impacts to Earth

Purpose

As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to abstract a conversational toolkit from the sessions that may facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders relevant to the topic. Our findings will be supported with examples from the various domains of interest. The results were captured in the form of the Ontology Summit 2022 Communiqué which has been published in

K. Baclawski, M. Bennett, G. Berg-Cross, R. Rovetto, R. Sharma and R. Sriram, Ontology Summit 2022 Communiqué: Dealing with Disasters, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 108(3) 17-48.

Process and Deliverables

Similar to our last sixteen summits, this Ontology Summit 2022 will consist of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists), virtual presentations and panel sessions at recorded video conference calls.

Meetings are at Noon US Eastern Time on Wednesdays.

Schedule

	Track	Session
ConferenceCall 2022 01 19	Introduction	Launch
ConferenceCall 2022 01 26	Disaster Landscape	General Disaster Parametric Landscape
ConferenceCall 2022 02 02	Disaster Landscape	CYC
ConferenceCall 2022 02 09	Disaster Landscape	COVID-19 KGs
ConferenceCall 2022 02 16	Disaster Landscape	Mark Fox
ConferenceCall 2022 02 23	Disaster Landscape	Synthesis
ConferenceCall 2022 03 02	Pandemics	Workshop Report
ConferenceCall 2022 03 09	Pandemics	Knowledge Graph Approach to Combat COVID-19
ConferenceCall 2022 03 16	Pandemics	Semantic Agents
ConferenceCall 2022 03 23	Pandemics	Risk
ConferenceCall 2022 03 30	Pandemics	Synthesis
ConferenceCall 2022 04 06	Environment Disasters	ESIP Cross-Domain Collaboratory
ConferenceCall 2022 04 13	Environment Disasters	KGs and Disaster Mitigation
ConferenceCall 2022 04 20	Environment Disasters	Personal Emergency Management
ConferenceCall 2022 04 27	Environment Disasters	Knowledge in Climate Research
ConferenceCall 2022 05 04	Environment Disasters	Synthesis
ConferenceCall 2022 05 11	Environment Disasters	Ontologies for Exploring Interventions
ConferenceCall 2022 05 18	Aerospace/Maritime Disasters	Space Environment - Disasters
ConferenceCall 2022 05 25	Aerospace/Maritime Disasters	Space Hazards and Ontologies
ConferenceCall 2022 06 01	Environmental Disasters	Climate Change
ConferenceCall 2022 06 08	Disasters: Ransomware -Cybersecurity	Ontology and Cybersecurity
ConferenceCall 2022 06 15	Synthesis	Synthesis
ConferenceCall 2022 06 22	Communiqué	Communiqué

Resources

Ontology Summit YouTube Channel

OntologySummit2022/Speakers

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