Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Workshop

== The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Workshop ==

Date: July 18th and 19th, 2018

Time: 8:30am-5pm, both days

Venue DoubleTree Hotel in Amherst in Buffalo, NY, USA

Note: To book your stay at the group rate, please contact the front desk of the hotel and say that are coming for the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Workshop.

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Note: The workshop requires an $80 registration fee, which covers catering, workspace, and technology for two days. However, there is also an optional multi-course dinner for $40 that may be paid in advance at registration.

• For further information please contact Neil Otte

Draft Agenda: Wednesday, July 18

The Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Workshop

Draft Agenda

1. Review of Use Cases

2. Reports from domain (bottom up) working groups

3. Report from Top-Down working group

4. Where are we now?

5. Roadmap (first round)

6. Technical principal discussion:

6.a. Decide whether diversity of ontologies in a particular area is allowed.

8. We will need use case to drive this decision.

9. We may not be ready and Need to come up with well-posted questions.

10. Process/Political: how to resolve conflicts.

Challenges:

7. Breakout groups will focus on technical challenges facing IOF.

- Ontology Merging - how do we resolve conflicts among ontologies within the IOF?

- Dimitris's group has agreed to prepare some materials on this topic.

- Technical: Follow on discussion based on decision on 6.a.

- What are the techniques we may use if a decision is reached in 6.a.

- Ontology Versioning (postponed)

- Best Practices and and Software Environments for Collaborative Distributed Ontology Development

8. Plenary discussion of Breakout Groups

9. Roadmap (second round)