Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2018 Symposium
The Symposium will be at NITRD 490 L'Enfant Plaza SW Suite 8001, Washington, DC 20024 on 30 April and 1 May 2018.
Registration
Registration for the Symposium is required if you are attending in person. To register please send email to Ken Baclawski by 25 April 2018. This is a firm deadline. There is no fee for attending the Symposium, but there is a limit on the number of individuals who attend in person. Attendees will be accepted in the order that requests are received.
No registration is necessary for attending virtually.
Communiqué
The final version of the Communiqué is pending and is expected to be released by the end of June, 2018.
Monday, April 30, 2018 (Day 1)
9:00 am: General Ontology Summit Symposium Information
9:10 am: Welcome and Introduction to the National Coordination Office, Bryan A. Biegel, Director, National Coordination Office (NCO) for Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Slides in PPT format Video Recording
9:25 am: Questions/Discussion
9:30 - 10:30 am: Discussion of the Communiqué Draft
10:30 - 10:45 am: Break
10:45 am - 12:15 pm: Workshop Breakout sessions
- Gary Berg-Cross and Vinh Nguyen Workshop Exploring the Role of Context in Evolving an Open Knowledge Health Network and Developing a Health Knowledge Graph (no medical background required)
12:15 - 2:00 pm: Lunch on your own
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Ram D. Sriram Ontologies for Smart and Networked Manufacturing: Past, Present, and Future
- Abstract: The early part of this millennium has witnessed the emergence of an Internet-based engineering marketplace, where engineers, designers, and manufacturers from small and large companies are collaborating through the Internet to participate in various product development and marketing activities. This will be further enhanced by the next generation manufacturing environment, which is being influenced by the recent developments in artificial intelligence. Agent-based interaction will become more prevalent in this new paradigm. Ontologies will play a major role in the success of this smart and networked manufacturing: both for knowledge encoding and for agent interoperability. This talk will provide a historical perspective on my three decades of work in developing ontologies in the manufacturing domain.
3:00 - 5:30 pm: Discussion of the Communiqué Draft
5:30 pm: End of Day 1 Sessions
6:30 pm: Group Dinner
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 (Day 2)
9:00 - 10:00 am: Richard Conroy (NIH) "Challenges and opportunities for ontologies in a biomedical context" Video Recording
10:00 - 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Great Debate John Sowa and Barry Smith
- Barry Smith slides in PDF format
- The original recording is in two parts: First 2 hours of the debate and Final part of the debate
- The two parts were merged into a single recording but with lower quality: Complete Video Recording
12:30 - 1:45 pm: Lunch on your own
1:45 - 2:30 pm: Continue working on the Communiqué.
2:30 - 3:00 pm: Conclusion and Next Steps
3:00 pm: Symposium Adjourns
Resources
Video Recordings are available as follows:
- Bryan Biegel, Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) Program Overview
- Gary Berg-Cross, Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network
- Vinh Nguyen, Contexts in the Open Knowledge Network
- Ram D. Sriram, Ontologies for Smart and Networked Manufacturing: Past, Present and Future
- Richard Conroy, Ontologies in a Biomedical Context
- John Sowa and Barry Smith, The Great Debate is available in two forms:
- The two parts were merged into a single recording but with slightly lower quality: The Great Debate
- The original recording is in two parts: First 2 hours and Final Part