ConferenceCall 2008 11 13/WhatsInStore

= What's In Store: for Ontolog Planning ConferenceCall_2008_11_13 Reference =

Inventory of Planned and Candidate Ontolog Event, Projects & Initiatives
Probabilistic Description Logic: Towards a Systematic Approach"
 * Candidate speaker and panelist (semi-invited already; no dates set)
 * SuzannaLewis
 * DeborahMcGuinness
 * NatashaNoy
 * BillAndersen
 * AzamatAbdoullaev [PeterYim / 2007.10.25 - no response received]
 * (the following were added during ISWC & FOIS 2008 =ppy/2008.11.13)
 * TimFinin (UMBC)
 * IanHorrocks (Oxford)
 * StefanDecker
 * EnricoMotta (KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK)
 * RudiStuder (AIFB, Karlsruhe)
 * JohnGiannandre (Metaweb) - Freebase
 * BijanParsia & Pavel Klinov (Univ. of Manchester) - "Optimization and Evaluation of Reasoning in
 * AldoGangemi
 * PeterMika - VoCamp
 * JohannaSeibt (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) - "Non-Transitive Mereology on Processes: Some Applications of General Process Theory in the Theory of Interactions" - (already scheduled for Prof. Seibt to give us a talk on ConferenceCall_2009_02_05 with MichaelGruninger chairing the session)


 * Ongoing, past & candidate mini-programs or mini-series
 * Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions [ DuaneNickull / KurtConrad ]
 * candidate: DennisThomas - Mark 3 knowledge platform (#proprietary)
 * candidate: Freebase / Metaweb#
 * Ontologies in Emergency Response [ RexBrooks / BobSmith ]
 * EmergingOntologyShowcase (content) [ KenBaclawski / MikeBennett ]
 * NigelCollier / SonDoan - BioCaster - http://biocaster.nii.ac.jp/
 * JohnGraybeal / LuisBermudez / CarlosRueda - Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project - http://marinemetadata.org
 * PatCassidy - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO
 * PatCassidy - COSMO - http://micra.com/COSMO


 * SemanticWiki [ HaroldSolbrig / LiDing / MaxVoelkel / PeterYim / SebastianSchaffert ]
 * see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SemanticWiki/Prep
 * Joint OOR-Ontolog Panel mini-series [ KenBaclawski / MichelleRaymond / MikeDean / PaulBuitelaar / PeterYim ]
 * one session scheduled for ConferenceCall_2008_12_04 - possibly with a panel showcasing 4 different EU efforts in ontology respositories/libraries and related work
 * candidates:
 * AlexGarcia - collaborative ontology development
 * LarKC [DougLenat / MikeDean]
 * OKKAM, the EU ontology repository effort [DougLenat]
 * DSpace
 * SchemaWeb - [MikeDean/2007.10.09] ...another repository is http://schemaweb.info.
 * UCore (DoD) [...?... LeoObrst]
 * OpenCyc WebServices [LeoObrst / 2008.08.15]
 * "Open Repositories 2008" (DigitalLibrary) folks [LeoObrst / 2007.10.09] - Ontology Repository at University of Manchester [MikeDean / 2008.04.23] - http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/repository/
 * Topics - Research areas and Implementation approaches
 * Business Processes and Policies for Managing a Ontology Repository
 * Storage and Access of Knowledge in an Ontology Repository
 * Importing, Validation, Versioning of Ontologies in a Repository
 * Mapping and Merging over Ontologies and Upper Ontologies within a Repository [NatashaNoy, Cliff Josyln - suggested by FrankOlken]
 * Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information
 * Search, Query, and Presentation of OOR held information


 * Ontology Summits [ NIST / Ontolog / NCOR / ... ]
 * candidate-1 for 2009 - proposed: Training and Education [BarrySmith]
 * candidate-2 for 2009 - proposed: Ontolgies as the Next Generation of Information Standards [ SteveRay / PeterYim / LeoObrst / BarrySmith / LaurentLiscia (OASIS)]


 * (repeat?) successful past programs
 * DatabaseAndOntology [MatthewWest]
 * OntologyMeasurementEvaluation [SteveRay]
 * OKMDS [NASA / Ontolog / KMWG]


 * (continue?) past programs
 * OntologizingOntolog
 * OntologTaxoThesaurus [ BobSmith / DeniseBedford ]
 * during FOIS-2008, JohnBateman indicated interest in the possibility of doing something with the Ontolog body of knowledge
 * ONION [ CarlMattocks ]


 * Candidates:
 * KenBaclawski: discussion on "what needs to be done!"
 * SvenVanPoucke: feature "Ask the experts" series - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-admin/2008-08/msg00000.html


 * mini-series on "Reasoners & Theorem Provers"
 * candidate champions: MichaelGruninger / ConradBock / TillMossakowski ]
 * candidate presentation: Aditya Kalyanpur / Kavitha Srinivas (IBM) [ChrisWelty] - OWL reasoner called SHER (now has a public demofor medical ontologies) - http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/iaa.index.html & http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/anatomylens/ - (# IBM Alphaworks)
 * candidate presentation: Hans Chalupsky on PowerLoom http://www.isi.edu/isd/LOOM/PowerLoom/
 * build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009
 * build this up to a workshop at the "Deductive Reasoning" conference - [MichaelGruninger] - workshop proposal due Feb-2009


 * ... (more) Open Ontology Tools
 * ... (more) Open Ontology Tools


 * Emerging ontological work products - application
 * ... (tackle in the Duane / Kurt) Ontology Application and Implementation panel sessions


 * collaborations
 * NIST
 * NCOR
 * CEW
 * NASA
 * NARA (?)
 * (I)AOA (emerging)
 * OASIS
 * STI-Int'l
 * DERI


 * project and initiative (sharing CWE)
 * OOR
 * BSP
 * (I)AOA

Remarks

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