OntologWorkshop July 2004/ProtegeOntologWorkshop 2004 07 06

= Ontolog Workshop at the 7th International Protégé Conference - July 6, 2004  =

Workshop Title: Extending Enterprise Ontologies: Levels, Limits, and Tensions

 * Co-organizers: BobSmith & KurtConrad

Rationale / Solicitations

 * 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 (Kurt Conrad)
 * Extending Protege to Import and Export SUMO KIF (Pat Cassidy)
 * 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 (Peter P. Yim)
 * Development of ontology-based meta-standards in an effort to introduce ontological engineering methodologies into eBusiness standards bodies (Peter P. Yim)


 * 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.

Date / Venue / Logistics

 * Date / Time: Wednesday 2004.07.06 13:30 - 17:30 EDT
 * Venue: Natcher Building (building 45 on the NIH Campus), National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD.
 * Official Conference Website: http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2004/
 * Registration & Logistics: refer to the official conference website. To attend this workshop, registration to the Protégé Conference is required.

Attendees

 * Attended:
 * BobSmith
 * KurtConrad
 * PatCassidy
 * PeterYim
 * EvanWallace
 * BillMcCarthy
 * GuidoGeerts
 * NenadAnicic
 * BoNewman
 * George Hurlburt
 * RobertGarigue
 * Stacey Kaminsk
 * Bernie Pineau
 * Michael Gaffney
 * Dinesh Bhat
 * Harry Gottlieb
 * George Tang
 * Rich Fritzson
 * Josh Lubell
 * Eswar Sivaraman
 * Jim Oberthaler
 * Andreas Gehrmann
 * Feng-Hao Liu
 * Jennifer Vendetti
 * Natasha Noy

Agenda

 * What follows is a tentative schedule. The presentation titles, for example, are subject to revision by the authors. We are targeting 20 minutes for each presentation with 10 minutes for follow-up discussion and "speaker switching logistics."  Please forward any questions, issues, or corrections to KurtConrad or BobSmith, as appropriate.


 * 13:30 ... Welcome and Introductions


 * 14:00 ... KurtConrad, "The Management of Ontology Projects that Rely on Virtual, Volunteer Teams"


 * 14:30 ... PatCassidy, "Importing SKIF files into Protégé: Considerations and Compromises"


 * 15:00 ... Break


 * 15:30 ... BillMcCarthy and GuidoGeerts, "Modeling of Business Enterprises with the Resource-Event-Agent (REA) Ontology"


 * 16:00 ... EvanWallace, NenadAnicic, NenadIvezic, SermKulvatunyou, "Experiences formalizing OAG eBusiness models in OWL, two perspectives" - Perspective-1, Perspective-2


 * 16:30 ... PeterYim, "Collaborating to Develop an Ontological Basis for E-Business Standards"


 * 17:00 ... BobSmith, "25 Years of Promise: Lessons Learned from Modeling Professional Practice"


 * 17:25 ... Closing

Resources

 * For material presented at the workshop (and other relevant resources) see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/workshop/jul-2004/2004-07-06_Ontolog-Workshop-at-Protege-Conference/

Snapshots

 * A few snapshots from the workshop session:


 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/images/P1000558.jpg

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 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/images/P1000565.jpg


 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/images/P1000566.jpg


 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/images/P1000564.jpg


 * ... for more pictures (from the entire week), see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/pic/ontolog-jul04-WashingtonDC/index.htm

Remarks

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