STIDS 2013

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Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community

organized as part of the conference

Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, November 11-13, 2013

Schedule

09:00 - 09:40 Registration / Breakfast

09:40 - 10:40 Barry Smith (NCOR): The Role of Ontology in the Era of Big (Military) Data Slides

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


11:15 - 12:45 Barry Smith (NCOR): Introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology – IAO Slides

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 Slides

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