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''' | '''Timing:''' This will be a three credit hour on-line graduate seminar to be taught on Mondays from January 30 to May 8, 2017. Links to course videos will be provided each Sunday at 9am. Students will be required to watch the video class some time within 48 hours. (The class will be assumed to take place in the interval from 4 to 6pm on Monday each week.) The final session or sessions (depending on the number of class participants) will consist in youtube videos (ca. 20 minutes in length) created by the students in the class. | ||
'''Registration:''' Details will be provided in due course. You can find preliminary orientation [http://studentaccounts.buffalo.edu/tuition/spring.php here] under Part Time/Graduate. | '''Registration:''' Details will be provided in due course. You can find preliminary orientation [http://studentaccounts.buffalo.edu/tuition/spring.php here] under Part Time/Graduate. | ||
'''Course Description:''' The course will provide an introduction to | '''Course Description:''' An ontology is a structured collection of terms used to tag data with the goal of making data deriving from heterogeneous sources become more easily searchable, comparable or combinable. Ontology is an important tool of data analysis, used in a wide variety of application areas from biomedicine to cyberwarfare. The course will provide an introduction to ontology from an application oriented point of view. | ||
'''Example Ontologies''': | |||
::[http://obofoundry.org/ontology/iao.html Information Artifact Ontology] | ::[http://obofoundry.org/ontology/iao.html Information Artifact Ontology] | ||
::[http://geneontology.org Gene Ontology] | ::[http://geneontology.org Gene Ontology] | ||
::[http://obofoundry.org OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry] | ::[http://obofoundry.org OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry] | ||
::[https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2041-1480-4-43 The Environment Ontology] | ::[https://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2041-1480-4-43 The Environment Ontology] | ||
::[http://www. | ::[http://www.edmcouncil.org/financialbusiness Financial Industry Business Ontology {FIBO)] | ||
::[http:// | ::[http://milportal.org Military Ontologies] | ||
'''Text:''' Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, [https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. | '''Text:''' Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, [https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp. | ||
Revision as of 12:42, 23 July 2016
(Preliminary details)
Course Title: PHI 547 Formal Ontology
Faculty: Barry Smith
Timing: This will be a three credit hour on-line graduate seminar to be taught on Mondays from January 30 to May 8, 2017. Links to course videos will be provided each Sunday at 9am. Students will be required to watch the video class some time within 48 hours. (The class will be assumed to take place in the interval from 4 to 6pm on Monday each week.) The final session or sessions (depending on the number of class participants) will consist in youtube videos (ca. 20 minutes in length) created by the students in the class.
Registration: Details will be provided in due course. You can find preliminary orientation here under Part Time/Graduate.
Course Description: An ontology is a structured collection of terms used to tag data with the goal of making data deriving from heterogeneous sources become more easily searchable, comparable or combinable. Ontology is an important tool of data analysis, used in a wide variety of application areas from biomedicine to cyberwarfare. The course will provide an introduction to ontology from an application oriented point of view.
Example Ontologies:
Text: Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015, xxiv + 220pp.
Further readings are provided here: http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Example videos are provided here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hxo3nql/playlists
Requirements: This course is open to all persons with an undergraduate degree and some relevant experience (for example in data science, terminology research, logic, philosophy). In order to receive a grade and course credit students will be required to have reviewed in a timely manner all provided videos and any accompanying recommended reading. Grading will be on the basis of contributions to the on-line class discussion forum and on the quality and content of a 20 minute youtube video (with accompanying essay and powerpoint slide deck) on some topic in the field of formal ontology. Each student will be required to create one such video for presentation in the final class session on May 8. Examples of student videos created in comparable classes in the past are available here and here.
Grading will be based on:
- 1. forum participation (25%)
- 2. 20 minute youtube video (25%)
- 3. associated powerpoint slides (25%)
- 4. associated essay (25%)
For policy regarding incompletes see here
For academic integrity policy see here
