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The goal of the National Center for Ontological Research is to advance ontological investigation within the United States. NCOR serves as a vehicle to coordinate, to enhance, to publicize, and to seek funding for ontological research activities. It lays a special focus on ontology training and on the establishment of tools and measures for quality assurance of ontologies. NCOR provides ontology services to multiple organizations, including the US Department of Defense.
The goal of the [https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/ncor/ National Center for Ontological Research] is to advance ontological investigation within the United States. NCOR serves as a vehicle to coordinate, to enhance, to publicize, and to seek funding for ontological research activities. It lays a special focus on ontology training and on the establishment of tools and measures for quality assurance of ontologies. NCOR provides ontology services to multiple organizations, including the US Department of Defense.


==Events==
==News==
 
'''[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Microbiology_for_the_CTSA:_Ontological_Approaches CTS Ontology Workshop 2017,  Microbiology for the CTSA: Ontological Approaches]''', Ann Arbor, October 25-26, 2017
 
==Past Events==
 
'''[[Industry Ontologies Foundry: ASME Workshop 2017]]''', Cleveland, August 6, 2017
 
'''[http://ontologforum.org/index.php/SummerInstitute2017 IAOA Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies]''', Toronto, August 8-11, 2017
:The International Association of Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) is announcing the 2017 Summer Institute on Upper Ontologies   
:Participants from all sectors of applied ontology are invited to interact from August 8 to 11, in Toronto, Canada. As always, the Summer Institute will challenge the state of the art through lively discussions and hands-on problem solving rather than lengthy presentations. 
 
'''[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/MatOnto_Ontology_Meetings MatOnto Ontology Meeting]''', University at Buffalo, April 3-5, 2017
 
'''Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting''', University at Buffalo, March 13, 2017
 
''Schedule''
 
4:00pm Brief survey​s​ of current ontology projects​ at UB​​:
 
:1) [http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g306/c404/p6403 Chris Stoeckert]: Implementation of a referent tracking system with UPenn TURBO [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/TURBO.pptx Slides]
 
:2) Jonathan Blaisure: Improving Secondary Use of Electronic healthcare record data [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/blaisure.pptx Slides]
 
:3) CHAMP: Coordinated Holistic Alignment of Manufacturing Processes
 
:4) MatOnto: The Materials Ontology
 
:5) IOF: Industry Ontology Foundry
 
:6) Mark Jensen: Ontology for the ​​Research Domain Criteria ​framework of the National Institute of Mental Health [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/Jensen.pptx Slides]
 
:7) Controlled Natural Language (CNL) interfaces to OWL and ontology editors


​4:45pm  [http://stl.mie.utoronto.ca/gruninger.html Michael Grüninger](University of Toronto): The Quest for Semantic Integration in the Context of Manufacturing​ [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2017/gruninger.pdf Slides]
'''[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Newsevents Events]'''


6:00pm Close
[http://www.buffaloctrc.org//news/entries/working_group_seeks_to_extend_the_depth_and_functionality_of_biomedical_ont Working group seeks to extend the depth and functionality of biomedical ontologies], October 14, 2017


'''[[Top_Level_Ontology_10-21-2016 | Ontology Group Meeting]], October 21, 2016'''
[https://medicine.buffalo.edu/news_and_events/news.host.html/content/shared/smbs/news/2016/01/jensen-doctoral-un-5573.detail.html Doctoral Candidate Invited to Work on United Nations Project],  


'''[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Clinical_Terminology_Shock_and_Awe CTS Ontology Workshop 2016], Clinical Terminology Shock and Awe, Buffalo, NY, September 7-8, 2016
[http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2013/2/23/advantages-of-financial-report-ontology-in-accounting-resear.html Advantages of the Financial Report Ontology in Accounting Research], February 23, 2013
 
'''Ontology Group Meeting, University at Buffalo, April 25, 2016'''
 
*José M. Parente de Oliveira​​ (ITA Brazil): "​​[[A Visual Formalism for BFO-Based Ontologies]]" [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2016/Parente.pdf Slides]
 
*Hedi Karray (ENIT, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbes Tarbes], France): "[[Applications of Ontologies in Astrophysics and Manufacturing Domains]]" [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2016/Karray.pdf Slides]
 
*Mark Jensen (United Nations Environment Programme): "[http://www.dataversity.net/ontology-has-big-part-to-play-in-united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-project The UNEP Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO)]" [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2016/Jensen.pdf Slides]
 
Organized jointly with the UB Center for Multisource Information Fusion
 
----
 
June 10, 2016
:2pm Discussion on establishing an Industry Ontology Foundry, with talks by Barry Smith and Hedi Karay
:3pm Presentation by Boran Brodaric on '''Water Feature Ontology and Timeless Wholes'''
 
May 19-20, 2016
'''[http://ncgia.buffalo.edu/OntologyConference/ Ontological Approaches to Sensor Data Analysis]''', Amherst, NY
 
March 21, 2016, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo
:Fabian Neuhaus talk on '''DOL: The Distributed Ontology Language'''
 
February 17-19, 2016 Gainesville, FL
:[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 Workshop on BFO and the Ontology of Social Entities]'''
 
Feb 2 and all Tuesdays until April 19 1-3:50pm, 141 Park Hall, Buffalo
:A series of seminars on various ontology-related topics, listed [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Analytic_Metaphysics here].
 
Feb. 1, 2016,  567 Capen Hall, Buffalo
'''Meeting on various ontology topics''', including:
:Non-Coding RNA Ontology (Alan Ruttenberg)
:Ontology for Manufacturing (Francesco Furini)
:*We propose an ontology focused on the representation of composite materials in general and what are called 'Functionally Graded Materials' (FGM) in particular. The scope of the ontology is to provide information about the components of such materials, the manufacturing processes involved in creating such materials, and different sorts of applications in dentistry and other fields. The ontology is developed using Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) and parts of of Ontology for Biomedical Investigation (OBI).
:Plant Life Cycle Ontology (Barry Smith)
 
[[Meeting on Current UB Ontology Projects]], IHI, 3pm, December 14, 2015
 
[[Information Meeting on Joint Doctrine Ontology]], Herndon, VA 20171, September 16-17, 2015
 
[[The Role of Ontology in Big Cancer Data]], National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 12-13, 2015
 
[[CTS Ontology Workshop 2015]], Ontology in Practice.
The Fourth Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Workshop.
Charleston, SC, September 23-25, 2015
 
[[Symposium on Military Codes of Ethics]], Buffalo, NY 14260, November 2, 2015
 
See also [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Past_Events here] and [http://www.bioontology.org/wiki/index.php/Dissemination_Wiki here]
 
==Studying Ontology in Buffalo==
 
[http://www.philosophy.buffalo.edu/graduate/areas_of_study/phd/ Areas of Study]
 
[http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_02_11/caredit.a1100012 Careers in ontology]
 
==News==
 
[http://xbrl.squarespace.com/journal/2013/2/23/advantages-of-financial-report-ontology-in-accounting-resear.html Advantages of the Financial Report Ontology in Accounting Research]


[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/IMMPORT/UB-Press-Release-2013.pdf UB Ontologists Win Bioinformatics Integration Award to Support National Institutes of Health]
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/IMMPORT/UB-Press-Release-2013.pdf UB Ontologists Win Bioinformatics Integration Award to Support National Institutes of Health]
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[[Advanced Biomedical Ontology]] 2017, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo
[[Advanced Biomedical Ontology]] 2017, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo
[[Ontological Engineering]], 2018, Spring Semester, online course, Departments of Philosophy and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo


==Tutorials==
==Tutorials==
[[Systems Engineering Boot Camp]], University at Buffalo, January 26, 2018


[[How to Develop and Use OBO Foundry Ontologies]], Tutorial and Workshop at ICBO, Graz, Austria, July 21, 2012
[[How to Develop and Use OBO Foundry Ontologies]], Tutorial and Workshop at ICBO, Graz, Austria, July 21, 2012
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== Ontology of Engineering ==
== Ontology of Engineering ==


'''[https://s3.amazonaws.com/ontologforum/OntologySummit2016/2016-03-17_Engineering/Reference-Ontology-for-Manufacturing--BobYoung_20160317.pdf Bob Young: Towards a Reference Ontology for Manufacturing] (2016)'''
[https://s3.amazonaws.com/ontologforum/OntologySummit2016/2016-03-17_Engineering/Reference-Ontology-for-Manufacturing--BobYoung_20160317.pdf Bob Young: Towards a Reference Ontology for Manufacturing] (2016)
 
[http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/sUe6G9RNtb7tgjQtgtkC/full Interoperable Manufacturing Knowledge Systems] (2017)


[[Ontology of Engineering]]
[[Ontology of Engineering]]
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[[Modeling and Simulation]]
[[Modeling and Simulation]]
[[Systems Engineering Bootcamp]]


== Materials Ontology ==
== Materials Ontology ==
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[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Immunology_Ontologies Immunology Ontologies]
[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Immunology_Ontologies Immunology Ontologies]
== Microbiome Ontology ==
'''Ontology'''
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3535841/ Improved Gene Ontology Annotation for Biofilm Formation, Filamentous Growth, and Phenotypic Switching in Candida albicans]
[http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.001.0001/acprof-9780199382514-chapter-7 What Biofilms Can Teach Us about Individuality]
[https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1532046415000507/1-s2.0-S1532046415000507-main.pdf?_tid=ca8ad71a-c168-11e7-b687-00000aacb35f&acdnat=1509804327_c9962782780a7f2935bfc9140684d5c0 MorphoCol: An ontology-based knowledgebase for the characterisation of clinically significant bacterial colony morphologies]
[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1024.59&rep=rep1&type=pdf Designing an Ontology Tool for the Unification of Biofilms Data]
[http://press.igsb.anl.gov/earthmicrobiome/protocols-and-standards/empo/ Eearth Microbiome Project Ontlogy EMPO]
'''The Human Microbiome'''
[http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(14)00023-7 Functional and phylogenetic assembly of microbial communities in the human microbiome]
[http://www.cmaj.ca/content/187/11/825.short#sec-2 The human microbiome], including as appendix: [http://www.cmaj.ca/content/suppl/2015/05/19/cmaj.141072.DC1/14-1072-1-at.pdf A microbiome glossary]
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426293/ Defining the Human Microbiome]
[https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/08/16/176784 MicrobiomeDB: a systems biology platform for integrating, mining and analyzing microbiome experiments]
[https://hmpdacc.org Human Microbiome Project]
[http://muse.jhu.edu/article/564608/pdf Parts and Wholes: The Human Microbiome, Ecological Ontology, and the Challenges of Community]
'''Microbiomes and the external environment'''
[http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/ The Earth Microbiome]
:[http://www.earthmicrobiome.org/protocols-and-standards/empo/ Earth Microbiome Project Ontology:EMPO]
[https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature24621.html A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity]
[http://metasub.org/ MetaSUB: Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biome]
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305737/ Tracking human sewage microbiome in a municipal wastewater treatment plant]
http://metasub.org/
'''Varia'''
[http://www.frontiersinai.com/turingfiles/July/12.pdf#page=9 Collective bio-molecular processes: The hidden ontology of systems biology]
[https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/doi/10.1093/bib/bbx120/4210288/A-review-of-methods-and-databases-for-metagenomic A review of methods and databases for metagenomic classification and assembly]


== Suggested Reading ==
== Suggested Reading ==
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQG1_gsXtc War-Fighter Ontology]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQG1_gsXtc War-Fighter Ontology]
==Studying Ontology in Buffalo==
[http://www.philosophy.buffalo.edu/graduate/areas_of_study/phd/ Areas of Study]
[http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2011_02_11/caredit.a1100012 Careers in ontology]

Revision as of 20:35, 23 February 2018

The goal of the National Center for Ontological Research is to advance ontological investigation within the United States. NCOR serves as a vehicle to coordinate, to enhance, to publicize, and to seek funding for ontological research activities. It lays a special focus on ontology training and on the establishment of tools and measures for quality assurance of ontologies. NCOR provides ontology services to multiple organizations, including the US Department of Defense.

News

Events

Working group seeks to extend the depth and functionality of biomedical ontologies, October 14, 2017

Doctoral Candidate Invited to Work on United Nations Project,

Advantages of the Financial Report Ontology in Accounting Research, February 23, 2013

UB Ontologists Win Bioinformatics Integration Award to Support National Institutes of Health

Announcing Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group

Information Overload in the Era of Big Data

Botanists building ontologies to cope with information overload

UB Applied Informatics Portal unveiled.

Courses

Problems in Ontology, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-6pm, August 29 - December 5, 2012

Ontological Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, Fall 2013

Ontological Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Department of Philosophy University at Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-7pm, August 25 - December 1, 2014

Analytical Metaphysics, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, NY, Tuesdays 1-3:50pm, Spring Semester, 2016

Biomedical Ontology Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo, Fall Semester 2016

Applied Ontology 2017, Spring Semester Online Course, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Advanced Biomedical Ontology 2017, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo

Ontological Engineering, 2018, Spring Semester, online course, Departments of Philosophy and Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo

Tutorials

Systems Engineering Boot Camp, University at Buffalo, January 26, 2018

How to Develop and Use OBO Foundry Ontologies, Tutorial and Workshop at ICBO, Graz, Austria, July 21, 2012

Basic Formal Ontology 2.0: Tutorial at ICBO/FOIS, Graz, Austria, July 25, 2012

Introduction to Protégé, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 11-12, 2012

Basic Formal Ontology 2.0, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 18-19, 2012

Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community, [http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu STIDS Conference, November 11, 2013

Tutorial: Ontology of Military Planning and Operations Assessment, STIDS Conference, November 18, 2014

Tutorial: Basic Formal Ontology 2015, International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Lisbon, 2015

Defining Ontology

An ontology is a representation of some part of reality, (e.g. medicine, social reality, physics, etc.). Smith states that: “Ontology is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality…Ontology seeks to provide a definitive and exhaustive classification of entities in all spheres of being.”1 To be an accurate representation of reality an ontology includes the types of entities and events in a given domain (along with their definitions) arranged in a hierarchical structure, along with relations (such as part-of, depends-on, caused-by, etc. where necessary). Ontologies enable the formulation of robust and shareable descriptions of a given domain by providing a common controlled vocabulary for doctrine writers, IT Developers, and war-fighters alike, thereby allowing these disparate communities to communicate with each other. An ontology should be a shared resource between communities, and its continued collaborative development should support the integration of information and facilitate knowledge discovery.2 These two goals are realized by ensuring wide dissemination of the ontology, so that it will be used by many stakeholders, and its terms will be correspondingly familiar and readily used for search.

The Philosophome

Philosophome Website

Philosophome Wiki

Semantics of Biodiversity

Paper: Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery (PLoS ONE, 2013)

Video Presentations from: Semantics of Biodiversity Workshop (2012)

Ontologies as a method of viewing data
Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)
How to build an ontology with BFO
Tracking referents with Instance Unique Identifiers (IUIs)
Tracking Changes in Our Understanding of Reality: Reality vs. Beliefs
Darwin Core (DwC) and Basic Formal Ontology: Putting it All Together
Building Darwin Core top-down in BFO
Organisms, photographs, media
How to re-use ontologies
Principles of singular nouns, secondary use, understandability
Writing good definitions (DwC Examples)
Management strategies
Ontologies for reuse (BFO, EnvO, IDO, OBI, Plant Ontology , Uberon, IAO)
Educational resources (OBI, Protege, BFO)

Finance and Economics

An Application of Basic Formal Ontology to the Ontology of Services and Commodities, Institute for Business Informatics, University of Koblenz, Germany July 23, 2013

Barry Smith, Reference Data Integration: A Strategy for the Future, Financial Reference Data Management Conference (FIMA), New York, March 2012

Military and Intelligence Ontology

JFCOM: Semantic Web and Joint Training (2010)

I2WD: Semantic Enhancement for DSGS-A: Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (2012-13)

I2WD: PED Fusion via Enterprise Ontology

Common Core Ontologies (preliminary statement)

Joint Doctrine Ontology

Ontology of Planning

Ontology of Planning

Ontology of Engineering

Bob Young: Towards a Reference Ontology for Manufacturing (2016)

Interoperable Manufacturing Knowledge Systems (2017)

Ontology of Engineering

Product Life Cycle Ontologies

Modeling and Simulation

Systems Engineering Bootcamp

Materials Ontology

Toshihiro Ashino and Mitsutane Fujita: Definition of a Web Ontology for Design-Oriented Material Selection (2006)

file archive
Steel Industry Ontology / .owl file
A Systematic Approach to Developing Ontologies for Manufacturing Service Modeling

Buffalo Engineering Ontology

Ontology for Clinical and Translational Science

Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Group

Immunology Ontologies

Microbiome Ontology

Ontology

Improved Gene Ontology Annotation for Biofilm Formation, Filamentous Growth, and Phenotypic Switching in Candida albicans

What Biofilms Can Teach Us about Individuality

MorphoCol: An ontology-based knowledgebase for the characterisation of clinically significant bacterial colony morphologies

Designing an Ontology Tool for the Unification of Biofilms Data

Eearth Microbiome Project Ontlogy EMPO

The Human Microbiome

Functional and phylogenetic assembly of microbial communities in the human microbiome

The human microbiome, including as appendix: A microbiome glossary

Defining the Human Microbiome

MicrobiomeDB: a systems biology platform for integrating, mining and analyzing microbiome experiments

Human Microbiome Project

Parts and Wholes: The Human Microbiome, Ecological Ontology, and the Challenges of Community

Microbiomes and the external environment

The Earth Microbiome

Earth Microbiome Project Ontology:EMPO

A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity

MetaSUB: Metagenomics and Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biome

Tracking human sewage microbiome in a municipal wastewater treatment plant

http://metasub.org/

Varia

Collective bio-molecular processes: The hidden ontology of systems biology

A review of methods and databases for metagenomic classification and assembly

Suggested Reading

Ontology: An Introduction

Coordinated Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies

Avoiding Perspective-Relative Silos

Universal Core Semantic Layer

Training Videos

Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security

A Repeatable Process for Ontology Development

Avoiding Semantic Stovepipes: Five Ontological Principles for Interoperability

War-Fighter Ontology

Studying Ontology in Buffalo

Areas of Study

Careers in ontology