STIDS 2013
Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community
Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security
09:00 - 09:40 Registration / Breakfast
09:40 - 10:40 Barry Smith (NCOR): The Role of Ontology in the Era of Big (Military) Data
- Importance of ontologies for Big Data utilization
- The need for agile ontology development
- The need for coordinated ontology development
- Principles of agile coordinated ontology development
- Basic Formal Ontology as top-level architecture
- Reference ontologies vs. application ontologies
10:40 - 11:15 Break
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11:15 - 12:45
Barry Smith (NCOR): Introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology – IAO
- What is an Information Artifact?
- The need for a standardized representation of information artifact metadata
- The relation of aboutness
- Attributes of Information Artifacts
- The Dublin Core and how to do things wrong
- IAO-Intel: An extension of IAO for the consistent annotation of intelligence-related information artifacts
12:45- 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:00
Ron Rudnicki (CUBRC): A Survey of DCGS-A Ontology Work
- The DCGS-A Ontology Suite
- Agent, Event, Geospatial and Time Ontologies
- Annotation vs. explication
- How DCGS-A Ontologies are being used for the explication of data models
- Standard operating procedures and ontology quality assurance
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:30
Dave Salmen and William Mandrick (Data Tactics Corp.): The Email Ontology
Why build an Email Ontology? The Email Ontology as module of IAO-Intel Attributes of emails Examples of use of the Email Ontology
Presentation at 2pm on November 13 as part of Session 1B of the 2013 STIDS conference:
IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence Domain Slides
