3rd Ontolog Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshop - Stanford University, USA - July, 2006

Theme: Natural, Semi-Formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas

Summary of Events

• Face-to-face Workshop: "Natural, Semi-Formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas" (Workshop colocated with the Protégé Annual Conference at Stanford University (Sunday, 2006.07.23)

• Ontolog Member Group Dinner at Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana (Sunday, 2006.07.23) - see map

• The 9th International Protégé Conference, proper (2006.07.24-268)
  • Conference program: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/schedule.html

• Meetings at SRI International (Tuesday, 2006.07.25)

• Protégé Banquet per Conference program - see: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/banquet.html

Registration

• To participate in this workshop, one needs to be registered for the 9th International Protégé Conference.

• Please register at: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/register.html

Events

• Pictures - from the 2006.07.23 Ontolog Workshop and from the Protégé Conference

Sunday, 2006.07.23: Full Day Workshop

This workshop is targeted at those individuals who are concerned about the stability and alignment of formalized ontologies with the real world, especially in the context of ontologizing community-of-practice knowledge bases.

This workshop will focus, not only on formalized ontologies, but on the relationships amongh the natural ontologies which exist within whole systems and efforts to create informal and formalized representations of them.

The developent of formalized ontologies is dependent, in large measure, on the nurturing and understanding of shared conceptualizations. The robustness of these natural ontologies can be expected to be critical to the successful development, implementation, and acceptance of ontology-based standards, especially in such areas as health care, emergency response, e-government, and service-oriented architectures.

On-site Participation

The Workshop and Protégé Conference will be held on the Stanford University campus (Stanford, CA 94305, USA). The sessions will be in 2 locations on the west side of campus in the Medical Center.

• Sunday 23 July: The workshop will be held at the James H Clark Center, located at 318 CAMPUS DR between Roth Way and Via Ortega.
  • see: driving directions
  • Parking: for Sunday 7/23, no parking permit is required; upon registration you will pick up the necessary daily permits for Monday - Wednesday, when you will be parking in a different location than on Sunday
  • Check-in is between 8:00 and 9:00 AM in the Auditorium of the James H Clark Center, located below the central courtyard formed by the 3 interconnected buildings of this center.

• Monday - Wednesday, 24 - 26 July: The remainder of the conference will take place in the Sherman Fairchild Auditorium, 291 CAMPUS DR, between Via Ortega and Panama St. Those not attending the first day on Sunday should check-in at the registration table between8:00 and 9:00 AM located in the auditorium lobby. Ref.: Parking and the walk to the Sherman Fairchild Auditorium

Remote Participation

• Date: Sunday, July 23, 2006
  • Session-1 (1.5-Hr) Start time: 9:00 AM PDT / 12:00 PM EDT / Time: 16:00 UTC
    • see world clock for other time zones)
  • Session-2 (1.5-Hr) Start time: 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT / Time: 18:00 UTC
    • see world clock for other time zones)
  • Session-3 (3-Hrs) Start time: 2:00 PM PDT / 5:00 PM EDT / Time: 21:00 UTC
    • see world clock for other time zones)
• Dial-in Number: +1-641-696-6600 (Iowa, USA)
  • Participant Access Code: 686564#
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Workshop Title: Natural, Semi-Formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas

Agenda

• 09:00 - 09:30: Kickoff and Introductions - Bob Smith - Listen (mp3) 23:01

• 09:5 - 10:30: Natural Ontologies
  • Natural Ontologies: Understanding and Addressing Alignment Issues Kurt Conrad - Listen (mp3) 1:06:19
  • Conceptualization Consensus Exercise Kurt Conrad

• 10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

• 11:00 - 12:30: Ontological Formalization and Deployment

• • Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge - Goals, challenges & Opportunities Peter P. Yim - Listen (mp3) 32:18

• • Reflections on Engineering a Knowledge Base for an Intelligent Personal Assistant BillJarrold - Listen (mp3) 49:13

• 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

• 14:00 - 15:00: Ontological Formalization and Deployment (cont'd)
  • Use Cases for Ontology Federation with Subject Maps Jack Park - Listen (mp3) 55:08
    • zipped (draft) presentation here, cleaned-up version will be posted later.

• 15:00 - 15:30: OntologTaxoThesaurus - Ontology Design Exercise - Denise Bedford (summarily presented by Bob Smith in DeniseBedford's absence) - Listen (mp3) 15:50
  • presentation & workshop support material:
    • Presentation (slides)
      • Attachment-1: Ontology Core and Related Concepts (full)-WIP
      • Attachment-2: Ontology Core Concepts (Sample Set)-WIP
      • Attachment-3: Core and Related Ontology Subdomains-WIP

• 15:30 - 16:00: Coffee Break

• 16:00 - 17:00: Participant-driven discussion - Facilitator: Kurt Conrad with Rex Brooks on the whiteboard
  • Prioritizing the Taxo-Thesaurus ontologizing exercise - Listen (mp3) 27:55
  • Participants tell each other about their ontology and semantic applications and use cases - Listen (mp3) 24:06

• 17:00 - 17:30: Wrap-up - Bob Smith / Mark Musen
  • Announcement - Partnership relationship between Ontolog and NCOR
    • ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2006-07/msg00030.html

Tuesday, 2006.07.25: Visit to the SRI AI Center

• SRI Host: Jack Park
• Ontolog Host: Rex Brooks

Agenda

• 3:00~4:00 pm: A Discussion on CALO - Adam Cheyer - ref: Adam's earlier CALO Presentation

• 4:00~5:00 pm: Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model: An Informal SOA Ontology - FrankMcCabe - slides

Resources

• Shared-file workspace: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/workshop/jul-2006/

• Other Preparation Materials
  • Ontolog-Protégé Workshop Proposal and Call for Participation - OntologWorkshop_July_2006/WorkshopCfp
  • Overall event preparation page - /Prep

Event Summaries

See: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2006-07/msg00038.html

Audio Recording

• To listen to the audio recording, click on the corresponding "Listen" links above (at the end of each of the agenda items).
  • It is recommended that you listen to the session while having the presentation (slides) opened in front of you. Where available, the slides can be downloaded to your desktop by click on the agenda item's "hyperlinked description".

• Credits:
  • Recording and related coordination - Kurt Conrad
  • Audio file post-processing - Peter P. Yim