'''Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community'''

organized as part of the conference on '''[http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/ Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security]''', George Mason University, November 11-13, 2013

'''Tutorial Schedule'''

09:40 Barry Smith (NCOR): '''The Role of Ontology in the Era of Big (Military) Data''' [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/1-BS-Introduction.pptx Slides] [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/Video-1.mp4 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

11:15 Barry Smith (NCOR): '''Introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology – IAO''' [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/2-BS-IAO.pptx Slides] [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/Video-2.mp4 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

Presentation to STIDS Conference on November 13:

Barry Smith (NCOR): '''IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence Domain''' [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/3-BS-Talk.pptx Slides]  [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/Video-3.mp4 Video] [[STIDS 2013 Paper | Paper]] 

13:45 Ron Rudnicki (CUBRC):''' A Survey of DCGS-A Ontology Work''' [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/4-Rudnicki-AIRS.pptx Slides] [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/Video-4.mp4 Video]

: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

15:15 Dave Salmen and William Mandrick (Data Tactics Corp.): '''The Email Ontology''' [http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2013/STIDS/5-Email.pptx Slides]
:Why build an Email Ontology?
:The Email Ontology as module of IAO-Intel
:Attributes of emails
:Examples of use of the Email Ontology