STIDS 2013
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 Video
- Importance of ontologies for Big Data utilization
- The need for coordinated ontology development
- Principles of agile coordinated ontology development
- Basic Formal Ontology as top-level architecture
10:40 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:45 Barry Smith (NCOR): Introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology – IAO Slides Video
- What is an Information Artifact?
- IAO-Intel: An extension of IAO for the consistent annotation of intelligence-related information artifacts
- The need for a standardized representation of information artifact metadata
- The Dublin Core and how not to solve the problem
- The relation of aboutness
- Attributes of 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 Slides
- 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
