What's In Store: for Ontolog Planning ConferenceCall_2008_11_13 Reference

Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Event, Projects & Initiatives

• Candidate speaker and panelist (semi-invited already; no dates set)
  • Suzanna Lewis
  • DeborahMcGuinness
  • Natasha Noy
  • Bill Andersen
  • Azamat Abdoullaev [PeterYim / 2007.10.25 - no response received]
• (the following were added during ISWC & FOIS 2008 =ppy/2008.11.13)
  • Tim Finin (UMBC)
  • Ian Horrocks (Oxford)
  • Stefan Decker
  • Enrico Motta (KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
  • Rudi Studer (AIFB, Karlsruhe)
  • JohnGiannandre (Metaweb) - Freebase
  • Bijan Parsia & Pavel Klinov (Univ. of Manchester) - "Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in

Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach"

• • Aldo Gangemi
  • Peter Mika - Vo Camp
  • Johanna Seibt (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) - "Non-Transitive Mereology on Processes: Some Applications of General Process Theory in the Theory of Interactions" - (already scheduled for Prof. Seibt to give us a talk on ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 with Michael Grüninger chairing the session)

• Ongoing, past & candidate mini-programs or mini-series
• • Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ]
    • candidate: Dennis Thomas - Mark 3 knowledge platform (#proprietary)
    • candidate: Freebase / Metaweb#
  • Ontologies in Emergency Response [ RexBrooks / BobSmith ]
  • EmergingOntologyShowcase (content) [ Ken Baclawski / MikeBennett ]
    • Nigel Collier / Son Doan - Bio Caster - http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp/
    • John Graybeal / Luis Bermudez / Carlos Rueda - Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project - http://marinemetadata.org
    • Pat Cassidy - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO

• • SemanticWiki [ HaroldSolbrig / Li Ding / Max Voelkel / Peter P. Yim / SebastianSchaffert ]
    • see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SemanticWiki/Prep
  • Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel mini-series [ Ken Baclawski / Michelle Raymond / Mike Dean / Paul Buitelaar / Peter P. Yim ]
    • one session scheduled for ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 - possibly with a panel showcasing 4 different EU efforts in ontology respositories/libraries and related work
  • candidates:
    • AlexGarcia - collaborative ontology development
    • LarKC [DougLenat / MikeDean]
    • OKKAM, the EU ontology repository effort [DougLenat]
    • DSpace
    • SchemaWeb - [MikeDean/2007.10.09] ...another repository is http://schemaweb.info.
    • UCore (DoD) [...?... LeoObrst]
    • OpenCyc WebServices [LeoObrst / 2008.08.15]
    • "Open Repositories 2008" (DigitalLibrary) folks [LeoObrst / 2007.10.09] - Ontology Repository at University of Manchester [MikeDean / 2008.04.23] - http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/
  • Topics - Research areas and Implementation approaches
    • Business Processes and Policies for Managing a Ontology Repository
    • Storage and Access of Knowledge in an Ontology Repository
    • Importing, Validation, Versioning of Ontologies in a Repository
    • Mapping and Merging over Ontologies and Upper Ontologies within a Repository [NatashaNoy, Cliff Josyln - suggested by FrankOlken]
    • Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information

• Ontology Summits [ NIST / Ontolog / NCOR / ... ]
  • candidate-1 for 2009 - proposed: Training and Education [BarrySmith]
  • candidate-2 for 2009 - proposed: Ontolgies as the Next Generation of Information Standards [ Steve Ray / Peter P. Yim / Leo Obrst / Barry Smith / Laurent Liscia (OASIS)]

• (repeat?) successful past programs
  • DatabaseAndOntology [MatthewWest]
  • OntologyMeasurementEvaluation [SteveRay]
  • OKMDS [NASA / Ontolog / KMWG]

• (continue?) past programs
  • Ontologizing Ontolog
    • OntologTaxoThesaurus [ BobSmith / DeniseBedford ]
    • during FOIS-2008, John Bateman indicated interest in the possibility of doing something with the Ontolog body of knowledge
  • ONION [ CarlMattocks ]

• Candidates:
  • Ken Baclawski: discussion on "what needs to be done!"
  • SvenVanPoucke: feature "Ask the experts" series - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2008-08/msg00000.html

• • mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers"
    • candidate champions: Michael Grüninger / Conrad Bock / TillMossakowski ]
    • candidate presentation: Aditya Kalyanpur / Kavitha Srinivas (IBM) [ChrisWelty] - OWL reasoner called SHER (now has a public demofor medical ontologies) - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html & http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/ - (# IBM Alphaworks)
    • candidate presentation: Hans Chalupsky on PowerLoom http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/
    • build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009

• • ... (more) Open Ontology Tools

• Emerging ontological work products - application
  • ... (tackle in the Duane / Kurt) Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions

• collaborations
  • NIST
  • NCOR
  • CEW
  • NASA
  • NARA (?)
  • (I)AOA (emerging)
  • OASIS
  • STI-Int'l
  • DERI

• project and initiative (sharing CWE)
  • OOR
  • BSP
  • (I)AOA

Remarks

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