Ontology Summit 2010: Future "Developments" - community input

This is the workspace for community input to the focused discussion outlined below ...

Track Label: Requirements - Subtrack Label: Future Developments

Track Co-champions: Elizabeth Florescu and Peter P. Yim

Mission: to develop an outlook on the "Future of Ontologists." we will try to gain insight from the perspectives of:

• the market - potential employer of the ontologist;
• the educator - the ontology training / education provider; and
• the individual - the ontologist (or ontologist-to-be)

Pertinent questions

• What major "Development(s)" (please express in one statement) do you foresee happening to the domain of Ontology or to the Ontologist profession in:
  • 2.5 years,
  • 5 years,
  • 10 years, and
  • 20 years
• What do you see as important trends that are beginning to emerge (w.r.t. the above time horizon)?
• How many "ontologists" (or professionals with an "ontology education") will the world need (in the above time horizon)?
• When do you think we will start having "ontology departments" in (a) universities and (b) enterprises?
• What needs to happen between now and the day when we will have "ontology departments" in unversities and enterprises?

Collected input from the community

• Community Input during our Panel Session-1 on Thu 2009.12.17 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2009_12_17#nid25QA

• Community input collected from the RTDelphi Study:
  • Summary of collected input
  • Full dump of collected input

Further Discussion

(Please insert your remarks below. Kindly identify yourself and date you input.)

• This is a test. (-PeterYim / 2009.12.16-09:38 PST)