STIDS 2013
Tutorial
Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community
Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security
09:00 - 09:40 Registration / Breakfast
09:40 - 10:40 Barry Smith (NCOR): The Role of Ontology in the Era of Big (Military) Data
Topics
Importance of ontologies for Big Data utilization The need for agile ontology development The need for coordinated ontology development Principles of agile coordinated ontology development Basic Formal Ontology as top-level architecture Reference ontologies vs. application ontologies
10:40 - 11:15 Break
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11:15 - 12:45
Barry Smith (NCOR): Introduction to the Information Artifact Ontology – IAO
Topics
What is an Information Artifact? The need for a standardized representation of information artifact metadata The relation of aboutness Attributes of Information Artifacts The Dublin Core and how to do things wrong IAO-Intel: An extension of IAO for the consistent annotation of intelligence-related information artifacts
12:45- 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:00
A Survey of DCGS-A Ontology Work (Ron Rudnicki, CUBRC)
Topics
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
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 – 16:30
The Email Ontology (Dave Salmen and William Mandrick, Data Tactics Corp.)
Topics
Why build an Email Ontology? The Email Ontology as module of IAO-Intel Attributes of emails Examples of use of the Email Ontology
