Ontology Summit 2013: session-08 - Intrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation-II - Thu 2013.03.07

Re: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_07


Dear Colleagues,


You are cordially invited to participate at the ongoing Ontology
Summit 2013. Our theme for the Summit this year is: "Ontology
Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle." Coming up this Thursday
(Mar-7) is our 8th virtual panel session, when we will invite more
experts, who have been giving a lot of thoughts on the subject matter
over the years, to join us on the panel and share their insights. ...
RSVP (details below)!


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Please join us this Thursday and most of the Thursdays in the next
couple of months, when we will be featuring virtual panel sessions
every week, as part of the Ontology Summit 2013 program:

*Thu 7 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-08 - Track A: Intrinsic
Aspects of Ontology Evaluation-II - Co-chairs: Dr. Leo Obrst &
Dr. Steven Ray - see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_07

*Thu 14 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-09 - Track C: Building
Ontologies to Meet Evaluation Criteria-II - Co-chairs: Dr. Matthew West &
Mr. Mike Bennett - see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_14

*Thu 21 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-10 - Track D: Software
Environments for Evaluating Ontologies-II - Co-chairs: Dr. Michael Denny
& Mr. Peter Yim - see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_21

*Thu 28 Mar 2013* - OntologySummit2013 session-11 - Getting the
"hackathon," "clinics" and related activities going - Co-chairs: Mr.
Mike Dean & Mr. Peter Yim - see developing details on the session page
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_03_28

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* between our Jan-17 launch of the Ontology Summit, and end Apr-2012,
we are planning to run virtual panel sessions every Thursday at the
same time window, ~ 2 Hrs, starting 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 6:30pm
CET / 17:30 UTC ... please mark your calendars.

*Register your attendance* by emailing <[email protected]> off-line
or register yourself directly to the wiki session page. Please specify
the date or name of the session(s) you are registering for (your
affiliation too, if you are not already a member of the community.)
... RSVP


****** Session Details ******

OntologySummit2013: Virtual Panel Session-08 - Thu 2013-03-07

Summit Theme: "Ontology Evaluation Across the Ontology Lifecycle"

Session Topic: Track-A: Intrinsic Aspects of Ontology Evaluation-II

* Session Chairs: Dr. Leo Obrst (Ontolog; MITRE) & Dr. Steven Ray (CMU)


Panelists / Briefings:

* Professor Patrick Lambrix (Linköping University, Sweden) -
"Debugging is-a structure in ontologies"

* Ms. Maria Copeland (University of Manchester) - "Ontology Evolution
and Regression Testing"

* Dr. Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health & Science University) - "A
biologists' perspective on ontology utility"

* Mr. Edward Barkmeyer (NIST) - "Core components for an ontology:
Quantities and Codes"


Abstract:

This is our 8th Ontology Summit, a joint initiative by NIST, Ontolog,
NCOR, NCBO, IAOA & NCO_NITRD with the support of our co-sponsors. The
theme adopted for this Ontology Summit is: "Ontology Evaluation Across
the Ontology Lifecycle."

Currently, there is no agreed methodology for development of
ontologies, and there are no universally agreed metrics for ontology
evaluation. At the same time, everybody agrees that there are a lot of
badly engineered ontologies out there, thus people use -- at least
implicitly -- some criteria for the evaluation of ontologies.

During this OntologySummit, we seek to identify best practices for
ontology development and evaluation. We will consider the entire
lifecycle of an ontology -- from requirements gathering and analysis,
through to design and implementation. In this endeavor, the Summit
will seek collaboration with the software engineering and knowledge
acquisition communities. Research in these fields has led to several
mature models for the software lifecycle and the design of
knowledge-based systems, and we expect that fruitful interaction among
all participants will lead to a consensus for a methodology within
ontological engineering. Following earlier Ontology Summit practice,
the synthesized results of this season's discourse will be published
as a Communique.

At the Launch Event on 17 Jan 2013, the organizing team provided an
overview of the program, and how we will be framing the discourse
around the theme of of this OntologySummit. Today's session is one of
the events planned.

In this 8th virtual panel session of the Summit, we continue to
explore intrinsic ontology evaluation, from basic structural
evaluation through exploration of the "is-a" relation with
PatrickLambrix, software engineering concepts of regression testing
with MariaCopeland, a biologist's perspective with MelissaHaendel, and
finishing with some suggestions of the use of common elements with
EdBarkmeyer. We hope that all of the participants in the open
discussion and chat will join us in helping to flesh out the
ingredients and methods for intrinsic evaluation.


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These sessions, like all Ontolog virtual events, are open and free of
charge. Anyone who is interested, or (better still) who may have
something to contribute, is welcome. Please refer to event details on
the session pages, to which the hyperlink is given above, where you
will find session agenda, conference call dial-in, slides and other
pertinent information. Feel free to pass this invitation along to
colleagues who may also find these sessions to be of interest.

*RSVP* by emailing Peter Yim at <[email protected]> offline (or add
yourself directly to the session page if you are already an Ontolog or
Ontology Summit community member) so that we can prepare enough
resources to support everyone. [Please state clearly the date of the
session you are registering for in your email.] ... All respondents
will be subscribed (if they aren't already so) to the
[ontology-summit] mailing list so they are participate in the virtual
discourse.

These sessions will be recorded and made available in a publicly
accessible archive. Therefore, before participating, please make sure
you are cognizant of our IPR policy (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).


Regards.  =ppy

For and on behalf of the

OntologySummit2013 session-08 Co-chairs,
Leo Obrst & Steve Ray

and Members of the
OntologySummit2013 Organizing Committee


p.s. full proceedings of the previous sessions (slides,
chat-transcript, audio recording, etc.) are all  available online now.
They are accessible from the "Archives" section on their respective
session pages, which you can find listed under "What's New" (near the
top) on the Ontology Summit 2013 homepage -
at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2013
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