ConferenceCall 2005 11 10/Ncor

Community Profile for NCOR
By / Date: BarrySmith / 2005.11.07 Last Updated: 07 Nov 2005 12:40:35 EST;


 * Community (name): National Center for Ontological Research
 * Date Established: October 27, 2005
 * Key Stakeholders: Academic, government and industrial organizations interested in promoting the application of the scientific method in ontology development and use
 * Constituency: all adult developers and users of ontologies
 * Domain: all
 * Mission / Charter: (see http://ncor.us)
 * The goal of NCOR is to promote the application of scientific methods in ontology research in the United States
 * by establishing cross-disciplinary networks among those individuals and groups involved in ontological research and applications in such a way as to foster a high degree of interaction at the four levels of infrastructure, content, methodology and application
 * by fostering, through challenge evaluations and other methodologies, objective measures for the quality (usefulness, useability, reliability ...) of ontologies
 * by developing, testing and promoting best practices in ontology research and development, including conformity to reference ontologies and to top-level integration ontologies
 * by developing partnerships with institutions in academia, industry and government designed to enable the sharing of expertise and to consolidate best practices
 * by organizing and strengthening educational and training programs in ontology
 * by organizing outreach programs designed to promote greater public awareness of the importance of high-level ontology research.
 * With respect to Ontology work (esp. eGov-related work), the community's:
 * Medium Term Goal: establishment of genuine evolutionary mechanisms leading to stepwise improvement of ontologies and to attrition of poor-quality ontology initiatives
 * Short Term Goal: to create an awareness of the need for quality assurance especially of the content ontologies and of the methods to achieve it
 * Deliverables within the next 6 months: to disseminate the goals of NCOR
 * Key Differentiation (with the other communities presenting today): focus on scientific method, on quality of ontology content, and on objective methodologies for ontology evaluation; no restriction on domain
 * What we can bring to the table to foster collaboration with other communities here today: all of the above
 * Additional Remarks:
 * Contact: BarrySmith 