OntologySummit2007 Survey/DougHolmes

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Question 1 Respondant Info

Name: Doug Holmes

Question 2 Affiliated - I am affiliated with the following constituencies/communities (please check all that apply)

[X] Formal ontology communities [X] Semantic Web communities [ ]  Linguistic communities [ ]  Concept Map community [ ]  Topic Map community [ ]  SEARCH communities [ ]  Web 2.0 communities [ ]  Thesauri community [X] Taxonomy communities [ ]  Metadata communities [ ]  XML communities [X] Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities [ ]  System Architecture communities [ ]  Biomedical communities [X] Standards Development communities [ ]  Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)

Question 2a Representing - I represent the perspective of the following constituency/community (please pick one; if you want to provide input from more than one perspective, please return a separate form):

[ ]  1. Formal ontology communities [X] 2. Semantic Web communities [ ]  3. Linguistic communities [ ]  4. Concept Map community [ ]  5. Topic Map community [ ]  6. SEARCH communities [ ]  7. Web 2.0 communities [ ]  8. Thesauri community [ ]  9. Taxonomy communities [ ]  10. Metadata communities [ ]  11. XML communities [ ]  12. Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities [ ]  13. System Architecture communities [ ]  14. Biomedical communities [ ]  15. Standards Development communities [ ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)

Question 2b Specific Community

or sub-community I am affiliated with: informal 'affiliation' with Semantic Web community

Question 2c Expertise Self Assessment - With respect to the perspective you are representing and providing input from, I am a/an:

[ ]  1. informed layman [X] 2. practitioner [ ]  3. expert [ ]  4. other (please specify):  (Not Answered)

Question 3a Ontology Value -

"precise specification, knowledge base for intelligent applications, machine/system interoperability, human interface/communication"

Question 3b Ontology Issues -

"(1) explaining ontology, (2) de-mystifying ontology, (3) illustrating/demonstrating value to users/stakeholders (4) and, consequently securing funding - especially for R&D"

Question 3c Ontology Problems -

"(1) Describing the value of potential application(s) of ontology (2) Convincing potential customers/developers that it is practcal to apply related technology (3) Helping developers/engineers to begin to use related technology (4) helping interested developers to create "good"and practical basic/primitve/intital ontologies (5) Illustrating practical, working system"

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -

"(1) Use Cases / Examples of potential application(s) of ontology (2) Simplified Development Environment(s) for early adapters (3) Someting like Design Patterns for developers (4) A "critical mass" of practical, working systems"

Question 4aGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: ontology Gloss: formal model of some - typically application - domain Reference (citation/url): An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization. Tom Gruber Artifact (name/version): Pizza Ontology - Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.co-ode.org/ontologies/pizza/pizza_20041007.owl

Question 4a1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [X] 5. 5 - almost always

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -

"standard tutorial"

Question 4bGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: domain model Gloss: typically a UML model of a software application domain Reference (citation/url): Most UML textbooks Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4b1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [X] 2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -

"Also called an "Analysis Model""

Question 4cGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: Entity Relationship Diagram Gloss: A model of (entity) concpets and relations from which a database schema is developed Reference (citation/url): Most RDB textbooks Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4c1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [X] 3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -

"yield to John Sowa"

Question 4dGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: taxonomy Gloss: a subsumtion model of concepts in a domain Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4d1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [X] 3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -

"sometimes called a "backbone" ontology"

Question 4eGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: tag library Gloss: informal organization of xml tags Reference (citation/url): lots of discrete software applications developed in the 1990's Artifact (name/version):  (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4e1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [X] 2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -

"this idea probably morphed into the current Web 2.0 notion of "tags" - at least it seems like a similar notion"

Question 4fGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: data dictionaries Gloss: a list of natural language definitions for application specific data Reference (citation/url): common usage Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4f1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [X] 2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -

"a common artifact of many software systems that include a relational database as an archive"

Question 4gGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: system knowledge base Gloss (definition): a specification of the knowledge that is encoded and used by a knowledge based system Reference (citation/url): numerous KB systems Artifact (name/version): PreAct (development tool) - Artifact Ref. (url): http://asinc.com/technology_overview.php

Question 4g1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [X] 4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -

"PreAct is a modern, commercial KB system development that has roots in the DARPA Pilot's Associate System. It is used to develop systems that include, reason about and operate on a "knowledge base""

Question 4hGlossary - Ontology-related 'vocabulary' and representative 'artifact' from your constituency or community:

Term: enterprise knowledge base Gloss: a natural language/ textual description of organizational "knowledge" about specified topics Reference (citation/url): A number of large enterprises [e.g. British Petroelum, Lockheed Martin, etc.] develop and maintain "knowledge bases" of this sort Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

Question 4h1 Called An Ontology - On a scale of 1 to 5, (where 1 means totally unlikely and 5 means almost always), would the above term or artifact be referred to as an "ontology" in your community?

[ ]  1. 1 - totally unlikely [X] 2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -

"these usually seem to have some sort of a taxonomy - or topic map - as an index, and are frequently believed [by users] to serve some of the purposes for which ontologies are developed."

Question 5 Confirm Participation - where,

a 'convener' is a participant who provides substantive contribution to the OntologySummit2007 initiative (through the online discourse, this survey, and other events leading to or during the workshops and the written communique process), and

a 'co-sponsor' is an organization who is providing technical or funding support (e.g. supporting member(s) of its technical staff to participate as a 'convener'), and/or endorsing the objective of this OntologySummit2007,

[ ]  I agree that my name can be listed as a 'convener' of OntologySummit2007 [ ]  I will consider endorsing the OntologySummit2007 communique. Please send it to me for review when it is ready. I will confirm my endorsement after the review. [ ]  I confirm that you may list my organization as a 'co-sponsor' for OntologySummit2007 (details below).

Question 5a Co-Sponsor confirmation:

Organization Name: Java Professionals, Inc. Link (url) to Logo:  (Not Answered)