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Leo Obrst, Fabian Neuhaus MITRE, NIST lobrst@mitre.org, fneuhaus@cme.nist.gov. An Open Ontology Repository: Rationale, Expectations & Requirements Session 1 Joint OOR-Ontology Summit 2008 Panel Discussion March 27, 2008. V. 1.20. Agenda. Information: Today’s call (March 27, 2008):
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Leo Obrst, Fabian Neuhaus MITRE, NIST lobrst@mitre.org, fneuhaus@cme.nist.gov An Open Ontology Repository:Rationale, Expectations & RequirementsSession 1Joint OOR-Ontology Summit 2008 Panel DiscussionMarch 27, 2008 V. 1.20
Agenda • Information: • Today’s call (March 27, 2008): • http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_03_27 • Ontology Summit mail list: • http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/ • Look ahead: • Ontology Summit 2008, April 29-30, 2008, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA: • Main site: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008 • NIST Registration site: http://www.mel.nist.gov/div826/msid/sima/interopweek/meetings.htm • Agenda: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda • Next week (April 3, 2008): OOR Rationale, Expectations, Requirements 2: • http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_04_03 • April 7, 2008: Developing an Ontology of Ontologies: • Today: • Focus is on potential content providers for such an OOR • Rationale • Expectations • Requirements
Rationale • Why are we interested in an OOR and what purpose does it serve? • Isn’t the Semantic Web notion of distributed islands of semantics sufficient as a de facto repository? • If you put it out there, they will come? • If you build it better and put it out there, they will prefer yours? • History does not show this laissez faire “field of dreams” is good reality • So real rationale: • You can find it simply • It’s registered, so you know who built it • It’s got metadata, so you know the purpose, KR language, user group, etc. • It’s got metadata, so you know what the content subject area is • It’s got mappings, so you can connect it to other ontologies • It’s got quality and value, as gauged by recognized criteria • It’s got services, so that you can map and be mapped, can find and be found, can review/certify and be reviewed/certify, can hook your own services into and can use the services others have hooked in • It’s linked to multiple common middle and upper ontologies • It can be easily extended
Expectations • Will the OOR solve everything? • How will we stage our wants and needs? • Can we provide good service to end users, content providers, application developers? • In particular today, what do content providers expect to find and use? • What do content providers expect to be able to provide?
Requirements • What’s needed: today, tomorrow, next week? • What do end users need? • What do content providers need? • What do application developers need? • Architecture • Ontology of Ontologies • Quality and Gateway Criteria • State of the Art • OOR the reality: • Requirements -> Design -> Implementation -> Long-term Maintenance & Enhancement • A Technical Roadmap and Realization • How do we ensure long term value, quality, commitment, progress? • Towards the Ontology Summit 2008 Communique
Panelists • William Bug , National Center for Microscopy Imaging Resources (NCMIR) and The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) • BIRNLex &The NIF Ontology: Decomposing complex semantic domains to empower ontology-driven data federation • Evan Wallace, co-Chair of OMG Ontology PSIG, Manufacturing Systems Integration Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) • Thoughts on Hosting an Ontology and Vocabulary Repository at OMG • John L. McCarthy, eXtended Meta Data Registry (XMDR), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) • A Standard & Prototype Starting Point for An Open Ontology Repository: The Extended Metadata Registry Project • Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, Neil Sarkar Marine Biological Laboratory • Enhancing Organism Based Disease Knowledge Using Biological Taxonomy, and Environmental Ontologies • Peter Benson, Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) • NATO codification system as the foundation for the eOTD, ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 • Rex Brooks, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), Integrated Response Service Consortium (IRSC) • Content Provider-Repository Builder