OntologySummit2007 Survey/ChintanPatel

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Question 1 Respondant Info

Name: Chintan Patel

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

[ ]  Formal ontology communities [X] Semantic Web communities [ ]  Linguistic communities [ ]  Concept Map community [ ]  Topic Map community [ ]  SEARCH communities [ ]  Web 2.0 communities [ ]  Thesauri community [ ]  Taxonomy communities [ ]  Metadata communities [ ]  XML communities [ ]  Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities [ ]  System Architecture communities [X] Biomedical communities [ ]  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 [ ]  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 [X] 14. Biomedical communities [ ]  15. Standards Development communities [ ]  16. Other (please specify):  (Not Answered)

Question 2b Specific Community

or sub-community I am affiliated with: medical informatics 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 -

"- Information integration from disparate health care systems

- providing unified view of data

- Enabling 'semantic' clinical queries for infection control, clinical research, data warehouse etc.

- Automated classification and maintenance of the terminology/ontology itself."

Question 3b Ontology Issues -

"No specific issue.

Medical informatics folks have embraced the notion of formal terminologies and ontologies. However, the adoption of OWL has been slow, which I believe would be highly beneficial."

Question 3c Ontology Problems -

"I think getting of rid the 'logic community' around the OWL-standards, who are incessantly trying to add new *un-needed* features, would really help in improving the acceptance in my community."

Question 3d Corresponding Solutions -

"Well I think the evidence is out there. How many 'real world ontologies' actually use the core OWL-DL constructs (cardinality constraints, disjunction etc)? may be only a handful.

So why is the W3C standards committee seeing the need for adding more expressivity into already bloated OWL?"

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

Term: Controlled Terminology Gloss: set of terms representing the system of concepts of a particular subject field Reference (citation/url): http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=20057&ICS1=1&ICS2=20&ICS3= Artifact (name/version): SNOMED-CT - Artifact Ref. (url): http://www.snomed.org/snomedct/index.html

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 [X] 3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4a2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4b2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4c2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4d2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4e2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4f2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss (definition): (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) Artifact (name/version): (Not Answered) - Artifact Ref. (url): (Not Answered)

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 [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4g2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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

Term: (Not Answered) Gloss: (Not Answered) Reference (citation/url): (Not Answered) 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 [ ]  2. 2 - rarely [ ]  3. 3 - sometimes [ ]  4. 4 - quite often [ ]  5. 5 - almost always

Question 4h2 Additional Remarks -

"(Not Answered)"

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: (Not Answered) Link (url) to Logo: (Not Answered)