OntologWorkshop July 2004

= Second [ontolog] Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshops - Washington D.C. - July 6~9, 2004 =


 * Event Summaries
 * Event #1: Workshop at the Protege Annual Conference
 * Event #2: Protege Annual Conference, proper
 * Event #3: Joint [[SICoP]-Ontolog Meeting]
 * Event #4: Meeting / Workshop with NIST
 * Resources
 * pictures of the event
 * Area Map
 * Personal Comments and Logistics
 * Preparation Work Material
 * Protégé Workshop Proposal and Call for Participation
 * Protégé Workshop Planning Notes
 * [[SICoP]-Ontolog Joint Meeting Planning Notes]

Event Summaries

 * This face-to-face event shall comprise a series of meetings and workshops, which include:

Event #1: Workshop at the Protege Annual Conference

 * Date / Time: Tuesday 2004.07.06 / 13:30 - 17:30
 * Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD)
 * Co-organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad
 * Expecting (in person): BobSmith, PatCassidy, PeterYim, KurtConrad, EvanWallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
 * Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
 * Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
 * Proposal Accepted by the Protege conference organizers - May 11, 2004
 * Agenda & Resources: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/ProtegeOntologWorkshop_2004_07_06

Event #2: Protege Annual Conference, proper

 * Date / Time: Wednesday - Friday, 2004.07.07 - 09
 * Venue: NIH (Bethesda, MD)
 * Expecting (in person): BobSmith, PatCassidy, PeterYim, KurtConrad, EvanWallace, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
 * Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
 * Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
 * Agenda & Resources: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/schedule2.html


 * Event #2a: Conference Banquet
 * Thu 2004.06.08, starting 6:30pm, Dinner Cruise

Event #3: Joint SICoP-Ontolog Meeting

 * Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.07 / afternoon
 * Venue: GSA, 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC.
 * Co-organizers: for Ontolog - PeterYim & BobSmith; for SICoP - BrandNiemann & RickMorris, with Nancy Faget & KarlHebenstreit
 * Expecting (in person): PeterYim, BobSmith, EvanWallace, PatCassidy, LeoObrst, KurtConrad, BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
 * Expecting (via phone): ...(add your name here)...
 * Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
 * Logistics: we assume that the group at the Protege Conference to take off after Chris Welty's keynote on July 7 morning, and then go together on the METRO to this joint meeting in downtown DC.
 * Agenda & Resources: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SICoP/SICoP_Ontolog_Joint_Meeting_2004_07_07

Event #4: Meeting / Workshop with NIST

 * Date / Time: Friday 2004.07.09 - 1:15pm - 4:45pm EDT
 * The Protege conference ends at 12:30pm that day)
 * Venue: NIST, Gaithersberg, MD
 * Co-Organizers: EvanWallace, BobSmith & PeterYim
 * Expected (in person): BobSmith, PeterYim, AdrianWalker, PatCassidy, EvanWallace, KurtConrad, BoNewman (if possible), BillMcCarthy, ...(add your name here)...
 * Expecting (via phone): BoNewman (alternitive if I can't attend in person)...(add your name here)...
 * Regrets: ...(add your name here)...
 * Agenda & Resources: OntologWorkshop_July_2004/NistOntologMeeting_2004_07_09

Area Map

 * BobSmith has hightlighted the locations where the above events are likely to take place on a map of the greater DC area. (thanks, Bob.  --ppy/2004.05.21_11:03am PDT)


 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/workshop/jul-2004/DC-area-map_01.gif

Personal Comments and Logistics

 * BobSmith: I depart 6am Sunday, 7-11-04


 * KurtConrad: Arriving in DC area on Saturday (07.03)... Checking into hotel in Bethesda on Monday (07.05)... Staying at Park Inn International in Rockville (301-881-5200)... Departing DC on Sunday (07.11)... My office number (408-247-0454) will forward to my cell


 * PeterYim: Arriving in DC area (via red-eye flight) on Tuesday morning (07.06.2004 9:17am, Reagan Airport)... Checking into the Four Points Sheraton Bethesda Hotel (301-654-1000) ... Departing Sat 07.10.2004 around 6pm ... I can be reached at 650-578-9998 (leave message if I'm unavailable)


 * BoNewman: I will be attending the conference (at least the Tuesday sessions) on behalf of my employer.


 * ...(add your comments here)...

Protégé Workshop Proposal and Call for Participation

 * Date / Time: Tuesday afternoon, July 6th, 2004
 * Location: In the NIH Campus(Building 45:?)
 * Title "Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions"


 * Rationale:
 * The Ontolog Forum is an open, platform-neutral community, focused on issues associated with the engineering of business ontologies
 * One of its main projects has been to develop a formal ontology based on the UBL (OASIS - Universal Business Language) schemas
 * The community has used Protege in a number of ways. Some were successful. Some were not.
 * This workshop will report lessons learned, describe future projects, and other topics of general interest to the Protege / Ontological Engineering / eBusiness community
 * Those with an interest in contributing to these general discussions of are encourage to attend and submit additional papers for consideration
 * The ontolog community wishes to take this opportunity to commence dialog with those who have the expertise in the ("lossless" or "lossy") conversion of Protege-based ontologies to OWL, RDF/S, XML/XSD, UML/UML-Class-Diagram, UML2/OCL, SQL, ... etc.


 * Topics of Interest:


 * Scheduled Topics (Actual titles may change....)
 * Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams (KurtConrad)
 * Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (PatCassidy)
 * Using Protege to Formalize the REA (Resources-Events-Agents) Ontology (BillMcCarthy)
 * Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (PeterYim)
 * Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (PeterYim)


 * Solicited Topics
 * Collaborative infrastructures for distributed ontology development
 * Tools for modeling and visualizing business ontologies
 * Strategies for engaging and leveraging subject matter expertise
 * Modeling business processes and associated knowledge flows
 * Translating formalized models between representation standards and tools
 * Elevating the semantic richness of implicit conceptual models
 * Application of ontological engineering principles to the integration of existing database schemas
 * Training people to contribute to an ontological engineering project
 * Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs
 * Protege vs KIF: The Options and Tradeoffs


 * Who should be coming?
 * individuals and corporate personnel interested in the research & development of E-Business standards through the use of ontological methodologies.
 * All members of the ontolog community, active members as well as observers.
 * those who are thinking of joining the [ontolog-forum] of finding out what it is doing.

Protégé Workshop Planning Notes

 * Schedule:
 * Workshop at Protege Conference Proposal Accepted (Thanks, Natasha)
 * Room Availability:
 * Accepting Papers (Abstracts and Presentations) until June 1st, 2004
 * Deadline for Submission of Papers, Topics, Interest (June 1st ?)
 * Scheduling and notifications (June 15th ?)
 * Pre-Conference reality check
 * Sessions
 * Post-Sessions Lessons Learned


 * Co-Organizers
 * BobSmith
 * KurtConrad

SICoP-Ontolog Joint Meeting Planning Notes

 * draft agenda and planning notes: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2004/SicopOntologMeeting_2004_07_07