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2013-02-28T16:27:48Z

Jillian Pugliese: /* Events */

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.

==Events==

To request participation via webex in any of the following meetings please write to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu].

'''Werner Ceusters, The Ontology of Pain, Park 141, North Campus, University Buffalo, 4-6pm, April 1

'''[[On the Ontology of Massively Planned Social Action]]''', Cognitive Science Colloquium, 280 Park Hall, University at Buffalo, 2-4 pm, Wednesday, March 20, 2013.

'''[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/oi2/ Ontologies for Information Integration]''', Buffalo, April 18, 2013.

'''[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/2013_BFO_Meeting Basic Formal Ontology Meeting]''', Buffalo, May 13-14, 2013

'''[http://wiki.plantontology.org/index.php/PRO-PO-GO_Meeting PRO-PO-GO Ontology Workshop]''', Buffalo, May 15-16, 2013

'''[[Past Events]]'''

==News==

[[Announcing Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group]]

[http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120820161058.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News) Information Overload in the Era of Big Data]

[http://www.kurzweilai.net/botanists-building-ontologies-to-cope-with-information-overload Botanists building ontologies to cope with information overload]

[[UB Applied Informatics Portal]] unveiled.

==Tutorials and Courses==

[[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

[[Problems in Ontology]], Class, Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-6pm, August 29 - December 5, 2012

[[Ontological Engineering]], Class, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-7pm, August 26 - December 2, 2013

[[Contact]]

==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.

[[Semantic Enhancement]]

== Suggested Reading ==

[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/ontologies.htm Ontology: An Introduction]

[http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n11/pdf/nbt1346.pdf Coordinated Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies]

[[Avoiding Perspective-Relative Silos]]

[http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-555/paper5.pdf Universal Core Semantic Layer]

[[Papers on Semantic Enhancement and Intelligence Analysis]]

== Ontology Videos by William Mandrick ==

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB6BjF4lAQ4&feature=related A Repeatable Process for Ontology Development]

[http://www.youtube.com/v/Z5o1SpPqNrA Avoiding Semantic Stovepipes: Five Ontological Principles for Interoperability]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkQG1_gsXtc War-Fighter Ontology]

[http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Mandrick_Vita William Mandrick]

Ontologies for Information Integration

2013-02-05T15:34:11Z

Jillian Pugliese: Advert for DDSSR's OI2 Workshop

== Workshop Announcement ==

[http://www.cubrc.org CUBRC, Inc.] and the [http://www.ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research] (NCOR, [http://www.buffalo.edu University at Buffalo]) will host a one-day workshop entitled '''Ontologies for Information Integration (OI2): ''Focus on security, intelligence, and emergency response'''''. OI2 aims to foster awareness of and collaboration between ontology-sharing efforts across all facets of the US government. The workshop will feature individual presentations ontological development and exchange. This workshop supports the Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (DDSSR) initiative.

== Venue ==

* '''Date:''' Thursday, April 18, 2013
* '''Time:''' 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
* '''Location:''' Zebro Conference Room at the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BLS), 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14263

== DDSSR Project Description ==

The goal of the Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (DDSSR) pilot project is to validate a method of extending the horizontal integration of intelligence data within the framework of the US Army’s Distributed Common Ground System Standard Cloud (DSC) initiative to new providers and users of this data. The guiding strategy will be to build a set of ontologies, not for a specific group’s needs or used to annotate a specific type of data only, but rather to represent the domains of reality with which all of the different groups are concerned and which all of these different sorts of data describe. Based on its success in other domains, we are confident that this methodology will advance the needed horizontal integration of data.

Ontology for the Intelligence Community is a workshop that aims to address issues arising in the development work of participant groups, and ensure coordination of successive stages of the work. Attendees will be presented with a methodology for multi-community ontology development, and provided with support by personnel trained in the use of the methodology. The DDSSR pilot project members aim to impart the knowledge and understanding of a set of well-managed, cost-effective, non-redundant, and high-quality ontologies that address the data integration and analysis needs of the intelligence community.

== Keynote Addresses ==

* "Why Ontologies? A Perspective from Military Intelligence" -'''Leo Obrst''', Principal AI Scientist, ''MITRE Corporation''
* "Horizontal Integration of Civil Information" -'''Gerard Christman''', Program Manager, ''Office of the Secretary of Defense''

== Workshop Objectives ==

* Address issues arising in the development work of participant groups.
* Ensure coordination of successive stages of the work.
* Present a methodology for multi-community ontology development.
* Provide support from personnel trained in the use of this methodology.
* Impart knowledge and understanding of a set of well-managed, cost-effective, non-redundant and high-quality ontologies that address the data integration and analysis needs of the intelligence community.

== Who Should Attend? ==

* Persons active in the process of improving the interoperability of U.S. Government information
* Project partners and representatives of parties and agencies who are unable to participate the DDSSR pilot project but who are interested in becoming trained in the SE development methodology
* Ontologists
* Data Analysts
* Members of the Intelligence Community
* Members of the Military Community
* Information Architects
* Information Technology Practitioners

== Registration ==

This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please write to: [mailto:jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org].

== Miscellany ==

* Beverages will be available throughout the day.
* Lunch will be provided. Those with dietary restrictions (e.g., vegetarian, gluten-free,etc.) should include that information at registration.
* Paid parking is available nearby. Please do not use the BLS parking ramp.
* Sorry, no travel or per diem expenses will be paid to attend.

== Inquiries ==

Please direct all suggestions, comments, or inquiries to [mailto:jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org].

== DDSSR Pilot Project Members ==

* '''Daniel D. Cruver''', Software Engineer, ''CUBRC''
* '''Tatiana (Tanya) Malyuta, Ph.D.''', SME Data Architect, ''Data Tactics Corporation''
* '''LTC William S. Mandrick, Ph.D.''', Senior Ontologist, ''Data Tactics Corporation''
* '''Jillian K. Pugliese''', Computational Linguist, ''CUBRC''
* '''Ronald J. Rudnicki''', Senior Research Scientist, ''CUBRC''
* '''Barry Smith, Ph.D.''', Director, ''National Center for Ontological Research''

Ontology for the Intelligence Community

2013-02-05T15:33:25Z

Jillian Pugliese:

Ontology for the Intelligence Community

2013-02-01T19:21:57Z

Jillian Pugliese: Advert for DDSSR's OIC Workshop

[http://www.cubrc.org CUBRC, Inc.] and the [http://www.ncor.us National Center for Ontological Research] (NCOR, [http://www.buffalo.edu University at Buffalo]) will host a one-day workshop entitled '''Ontology for the Intelligence Community (OIC): ''Building better collaboration for ontology exchange'''''. OIC aims to foster awareness of and collaboration between ontology-sharing efforts across all facets of the US government. The workshop will feature individual presentations ontological development and exchange. This workshop supports the Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (DDSSR) initiative.

== Venue ==

* '''Date:''' Thursday, April 18, 2013
* '''Time:''' 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
* '''Location:''' Zebro Conference Room at the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BLS), 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14263

== DDSSR Project Description ==

The goal of the Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (DDSSR) pilot project is to validate a method of extending the horizontal integration of intelligence data within the framework of the US Army’s Distributed Common Ground System Standard Cloud (DSC) initiative to new providers and users of this data. The guiding strategy will be to build a set of ontologies, not for a specific group’s needs or used to annotate a specific type of data only, but rather to represent the domains of reality with which all of the different groups are concerned and which all of these different sorts of data describe. Based on its success in other domains, we are confident that this methodology will advance the needed horizontal integration of data.

Ontology for the Intelligence Community is a workshop that aims to address issues arising in the development work of participant groups, and ensure coordination of successive stages of the work. Attendees will be presented with a methodology for multi-community ontology development, and provided with support by personnel trained in the use of the methodology. The DDSSR pilot project members aim to impart the knowledge and understanding of a set of well-managed, cost-effective, non-redundant, and high-quality ontologies that address the data integration and analysis needs of the intelligence community.

== Speakers ==

* Leo Obrst
* Gerry Christman

== Workshop Objectives ==

* Address issues arising in the development work of participant groups.
* Ensure coordination of successive stages of the work.
* Present a methodology for multi-community ontology development.
* Provide support from personnel trained in the use of this methodology.
* Impart knowledge and understanding of a set of well-managed, cost-effective, non-redundant and high-quality ontologies that address the data integration and analysis needs of the intelligence community.

== Target Audience ==

* Persons active in the process of improving the interoperability of U.S. Government information
* Project partners and representatives of parties and agencies who are unable to participate the DDSSR pilot project but who are interested in becoming trained in the SE development methodology
* Ontologists
* Data Analysts
* Members of the Intelligence Community
* Members of the Military Community
* Information Architects
* Information Technology Practitioners

== Registration ==

This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required. To register, please write to: [mailto:jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org].

== Miscellany ==

* Beverages will be available throughout the day.
* Lunch will be provided. Those with dietary restrictions (e.g., vegetarian, gluten-free,etc.) should include that information at registration.
* Paid parking is available nearby. Please do not use the BLS parking ramp.
* Sorry, no travel or per diem expenses will be paid to attend.

== Inquiries ==

Please direct all suggestions, comments, or inquiries to [mailto:jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org jillian.pugliese@cubrc.org].

== DDSSR Pilot Project Members ==

* '''Daniel D. Cruver''', Software Engineer, ''CUBRC''
* '''Tatiana (Tanya) Malyuta, Ph.D.''', SME Data Architect, ''Data Tactics Corporation''
* '''LTC William S. Mandrick, Ph.D.''', Senior Ontologist, ''Data Tactics Corporation''
* '''Jillian K. Pugliese''', Computational Linguist, ''CUBRC''
* '''Ronald J. Rudnicki''', Senior Research Scientist, ''CUBRC''
* '''Barry Smith, Ph.D.''', Director, ''National Center for Ontological Research''