STIDS 2013

Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community

organized as part of the conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, November 11-13, 2013

Tutorial Schedule

09:00 - 09:40 Registration / Breakfast

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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

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10:40 - 11:15 Break

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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

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Presentation to STIDS Conference on November 13:

Barry Smith (NCOR): IAO-Intel: An Ontology of Information Artifacts in the Intelligence Domain Slides Video Paper

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13:45 - 15:00 Ron Rudnicki (CUBRC): A Survey of DCGS-A Ontology Work Slides 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

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15:00 - 15:15 Break

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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