Ontology for the Intelligence Community

Workshop Announcement

CUBRC, Inc. and the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR, 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: 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 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