Ontology

"Metadata for Ocean Scientists" Tutorial at Ocean Sciences 2008

swatson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:54:00 -0800

Event Description

MMI proposes to hold free metadata tutorials that are divided into 30-minute modules at the Ocean Sciences 2008 meeting. The modules will be: Introduction to Metadata; Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies and Ontologies; Submitting Metadata to a Clearinghouse; and Metadata Best Practices. Two modules will be held during each lunch break on Tuesday and Wednesday. All four modules will be provided on Thursday evening.

Workshops Team

Agenda Template

swatson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:04:00 -0800

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[Date of Day One]

0800

Workshop Templates

Apollo

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:47:00 -0800

Approach Template for a Vocabulary Mapping Workshop

swatson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:07:00 -0800

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Are Ontologies Overrated?

graybeal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:37:00 -0800

References Description This article by Clay Shirky is a marvelous overview of the nature of ontologies, or classification systems, as opposed to organic, user-driven, and free-form organizing strategies. (The classic examples cited in each category are Yahoo's classifications of content, and Google's content-driven search capabilities.) The writer argues that there are at least 5 characteristics that help make an ontology work:

Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Biodiversity resource information ontology - introduced species, taxonomic information, geographic location.

BioPortal 2.0

carynn — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:58:20 -0700

BioPortal allows users to browse, upload, download, search, comment on, and create mappings for ontologies.

Users can browse and explore individual ontologies by navigating either a tree structure or an animated graphical view. Users can also view mappings and ontology metadata, and download ontologies.

Additionally, users who are signed in may also submit a new ontology to the library. All submissions to the library are reviewed.

CIMA Ontology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:17:00 -0800

CIMA is aimed at "Grid enabling" instruments as real-time data sources to improve accessibility of instruments and to facilitate their integration into the Grid. They are developing semantic metadata (in OWL/RDF) using a web-based tool, so that the semantic metadata can be used to drive the WSDL/SOAP middleware.

CIRCO Taxonomy Administrator

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

Using an ontology-based CIRCA technology, the Taxonomy Administrator in Auto-Categorizer 1.1 maps concepts in a simple, direct manner without requiring the development of extensive training sets to define each of the categories. Users of the technology can directly map their custom terminologies to its two gigabyte ontology, a continuously maintained and updated knowledge base containing millions of concepts and relationship links through the Auto-Categorizer tool.

COBrA

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

COBrA allows the user to manually create links between terms in two ontologies. For example, links between tissues in an anatomy and the cell types of the tissues can be recorded and stored: these links are referred to as mappings.

Has the following features:

CoGITaNT

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

Conceptual graph (CG) modeling with rules; nested typed graphs; projections.

CoGITaNT is a C++ library.

Collaborative Ontology Development in Protege

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:36:00 -0800

Start: 10/04/2007 - 00:30

Comments about the Ontology Provider Guide

luisBer — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:06:00 -0800

SKOS, RDF or OWL -[John 20070205] why are we selecting these. Do we have more choices ? -[John 20070205] Should we leave SKOS and OWL or only one of them ?

COMPASS

graybeal — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:00 -0800

The COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship) project is investigating the development of semantic tools for assisting those conducting research on coastal and marine environments. They have targeted demonstrating an ontologically-driven knowledge infrastructure for the marine domain.

Cyberinfrastructure: Information Management in eScience (CMIS)

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:12:00 -0800

Start: 11/09/2007 - 00:00

End: 11/09/2007 - 15:00

DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO AUGUST 5, 2007

For paper submission guidelines, please see the CIMS Web site

DAML

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:31:00 -0800

From Website: "The DAML language is being developed as an extension to XML and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The latest release of the language (DAML+OIL) provides a rich set of constructs with which to create ontologies and to markup information so that it is machine readable and understandable."

DAML Ontology Library

kwalz — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:13:57 -0700

Description

From DAML web site: "The goal of the DAML effort is to develop a language and tools to facilitate the concept of the Semantic Web." The Ontology Library currently hosts over 280 ontologies.

Type

Vocabulary/Ontology

Stage of Maturity

Existing - the item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained

Notes:

Producer

DAML

Maintainer

DAML

Users

Ontology developers.

DAML UML Enhanced Tool (DUET)

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

From the website: "DUET provides a UML visualization and authoring environment for DAML. Core DAML concepts are being mapped into UML through a UML profile for DAML. DUET will have the capability to work with multiple ontologies simultaneously, and to interact with other DAML services to interactively build ontologies. It's intended users are database designers and systems engineers, many of who all ready have a good understanding of UML and object-oriented modeling, which they can leverage to apply DAML to their systems."

Designing and Building Business Ontologies

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:33:00 -0800

Start: 10/09/2007 - 11:00

End: 10/12/2007 - 20:00

An ontology is a formal description of the meaning of the information stored in a system. It resembles a conceptual model, but goes much beyond a conceptual model in that the formal definitions allow the system to infer class membership based on properties. Additionally, inference engines, running on ontologies, allow users to extract and integrate information stored in distributed systems.

Distributed Ontology Development with Protege

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:31:00 -0800

Start: 10/11/2007 - 10:30

End: 10/11/2007 - 12:30