"Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series - Project Home Page

What's New

• The next session will be on Thursday, 16 October 2008. See details on the session page at ConferenceCall_2008_10_16

Objective & Plan

Format: a 4-month mini-series comprising Talks, Panel Discussions and Online Discourse.

The number of publicly available ontologies is growing rapidly, with search engines reporting over 10,000 already. This mini-series is intended to provide a venue for the developers of major new ontologies to present their work products to the ontology community. Each session will showcase 2 or 3 important ontologies that were recently released or updated.

The following are the criteria for inclusion in the showcase:

• Each ontology should be either a new ontology or a major new release of an existing ontology, where "new" means in the last 6 months.
• The emphasis is on the ontology rather than on the instance data (TBox rather than ABox in DL terminology) or on tools or websites that make use of the ontology.
• Ontologies that are getting close to standardization are especially welcome.

Organizing Committee

• Ken Baclawski (co-champion)
• Mike Bennett (co-champion)
• Kurt Conrad
• Peter P. Yim
• Leo Obrst

Conference Call, Meeting & Workshop

• 2008-08-21 - Initial Planning & Organization - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_08_21#nid1KSN

• Thursday, 25-September-2008 - Kick-off session for the "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series co-championed by Professor Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-1 of the mini-series featured Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., London UK) who gave a talk on: "The EDM Council Semantics Repository: Building global consensus for the Financial Services Industry," and Mr. MikeBergman (Zitgist LLC) who presented on: "UMBEL: A Lightweight Subject Reference Structure for the Web." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_09_25 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!   

• Thursday, 16-October-2008 - "Emerging Ontology Showcase" mini-series panel session-2 - co-chaired by Professor Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Mr. Mike Bennett (Hypercube Ltd., UK). This panel session-2 is featuring Sven Van Poucke, MD (Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium) who will give a talk entitled: "Ontologists and Domain Experts focusing on Chronic Wounds : Different Worlds on the Same Planet?," and Professor Martin Hepp (Bundeswehr University, Munich, Germany) who will present on: "The Good Relations Ontology: Making Semantic Web-based E-Commerce a Reality." Please refer to details on the session page at: ConferenceCall_2008_10_16 ... Audio archive of the session is now available!