Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - Dr. Tania Tudorache - Thu 2007.10.04

Invited Speakers: Dr. Tania Tudorache, from the Stanford Medical Informatics / Protégé project team (California, USA.)

Topic: This is the first episode of a 2-part session on Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protégé. Our invited speaker will be giving a talk entitled: "Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé"

Archive: slides & audio recording of the session (mp3)

Conference Call Details

Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007
Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 7:30pm CEST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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Attendees

Registered Attendees:
- Tania Tudorache
- Tim Redmond
- Peter P. Yim
- Othel Rolle
- Andrew Potter
- Amanda Vizedom
- Moses Kamai (Battelle)
- Jyotishman Pathak
- JuanSequeda
- Bob Marcus (SRI)
- Leisa Schievelbein (DoI)
- Grace Yuan (NSF)
- Mark Feblowitz
- Julian Shelbourne (Kaiser Permanente)
- Peter Eirich (Johns Hopkins U, Applied Physics Lab.)
- William Hayes (Biogen Idec)
- Alexander Mirzaoff (ITT Space Systems Div.)
- Helen Chen (Agfa Healthcare)
- Ramon Felciano (Ingenuity)
- Bob Bilder (UCLA)
- Silvio Gonnet (INGAR, Santa Fe, Argentina)
- Atilla Elci
- My Coyne (Bioinformatics Consultant for NDAR/NIH)
- Fritz Solm (Solms, Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Dawid Loubser (Solms, Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Keith Campbell (Informatics)
- Ken Baclawski
- John Lumpkin (NIH/NAID, Lockheed Martin)
- Deepa Iyer (Kaiser Permanente)
- Guoqian Jiang (Mayo Clinic)
- Neil Custer and colleagues (CSC)
- Farrukh Najmi (Wellfleet Software)
- Doug Holmes
- Rich Stocking, Joseph Korman and Marie Kramer (Lockheed Martin)
- Cameron Ross
- Marco Neumann
- Toby Considine (OASIS oBIX TC)
- Jeffrey Schiffel
- Michel Biezunski
- Harold Solbrig (Apelon)
- Mary Luceri (ICMA-RC, Washington DC)
- DavidHarris
- ChrisRichardson
- Asha Krishnaswamy (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)
- Kuan-Tsae Huang (NLM & Taskco)
- Conrad Bock
- Xenia Fiorentini (NIST)
- Mona Choi (CDC/OD/OWCD)
- Susan Turnbull
- Ram D. Sriram
- John Singer
- Don Conklin (Lockheed Martin)
- Fabian Neuhaus
- John Graybeal (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
- Serm Kulvatunyou
- Kristi Eckerson (CDC / Northrop Grumman IT)
- Sheetal Shah (NIH, NIAID, Lockheed Martin)
- Pat Cassidy

- ...(to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail <peter.yim@cim3.com> so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation.)...

Regrets:
- Avery Sen (NOAA)
- JennyUre
- Joanne Luciano (MITRE)
- Patrick Durusau

Agenda & Proceedings

Dr. Tania Tudorache from the Stanford Protégé group presents the first episode on Distributed Collaboration in Ontology Development with Protégé

[picture of Dr. Tania Tudorache]

Title: Collaborative Ontology Development in Protégé

Abstract: (by TaniaTudorache)

Collaborative ontology development is one of the recent and most important topics in the Semantic Web community. Ontologies are no longer developed by single individuals, but are built by a group of people sharing a common goal. In my talk, I will present some of the challenges that need to be tackled in a collaborative ontology development environment and I will point out some of the functionalities that such an environment should provide. I will present different collaborative development scenarios and workflows. I will give a brief demo of a prototype we have built to support the collaborative ontology development process, called Collaborative Protégé, which is an extension of the existing Protégé system <http://protege.stanford.edu/>. In addition to the common ontology editing operations, the prototype enables annotation of both ontology components and ontology changes. It supports the searching and filtering of user annotations based on different criteria. We have also implemented two types of voting mechanisms that can be used for voting of change proposals.

Session Format and Agenda:
- this will be virtual session over a phone conference setting, augmented by shared computer screen support

1. The session will start with a brief self-introduction of the attendees (~15 min.) [We will be skipping this if there are more than 20 participants.]
2. Introduction of the invited speaker - by Dr. Timothy Redmond
3. Presentation by our invited speaker - Dr. Tania Tudorache (~60 min.)
4. Q&A and Open discussion (~30 min.) [Kindly identify yourself before speaking.]

Bio of Dr. Tania Tudorache:

Dr. Tudorache is an engineering research associate in the Protégé group of the Stanford Medical Informatics department. She has received her PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany in 2006. Dr. Tudorache has gained a lot of experience in ontology-based domain modeling and semantic application development during her employment at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology in Germany. She has studied the use of semantic technologies for improving the engineering process, developing ontologies for modeling product views, employing mappings to check their consistency and to support applications interoperability. Since she has joined the Protégé group in 2006, Dr. Tudorache has been active in the development and support of the Protégé ontology editor. Her main research interest is the collaborative ontology development process.

Dr. Tudorache's prepared slides can be accessed by pointing your web browsers to:
- http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/TaniaTudorache_20071004/CollaborativeProtege--TaniaTudorahce_20071004.pdf
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Session ended 2007.10.04 12:09 pm PDT

Session Recording of this Panel Session

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Conference Date and Time: 4-Oct-2007 10:39am~12:09pm Pacific Daylight Time
Duration of Recording: 1 Hour 24 Minutes
Recording File Size: 9.6 MB (in mp3 format)
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