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[[Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security]], Tutorial, Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2012
[[Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security]], Tutorial, Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2012
[http://user.meduni-graz.at/stefan.schulz/icbofois2012/icbo.htm International Conference on Biomedical Ontology], Graz, Austria • July 22-25, 2012
[http://user.meduni-graz.at/stefan.schulz/icbofois2012/icbo.htm Formal Ontology in Information Systems]
Graz, Austria • July 25-28, 2012


'''For past events see [[Past Events | here]]'''
'''For past events see [[Past Events | here]]'''

Revision as of 19:06, 21 October 2012

The goal of the National Center for Ontological Research is to advance ontological investigation within the United States. NCOR serves as a vehicle to coordinate, to enhance, to publicize, and to seek funding for ontological research activities. It lays a special focus on ontology training and on the establishment of tools and measures for quality assurance of ontologies. NCOR provides ontology services to multiple organizations, including the US Department of Defense.

News

Information Overload in the Era of Big Data

Botanists building ontologies to cope with information overload

UB Applied Informatics Portal unveiled.

Tutorials and Courses

How to Develop and Use OBO Foundry Ontologies, Tutorial and Workshop at ICBO, Graz, Austria, July 21, 2012

Basic Formal Ontology 2.0: Tutorial at ICBO/FOIS, Graz, Austria, July 25, 2012

Introduction to Protégé, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 11-12, 2012

Basic Formal Ontology 2.0, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 18-19, 2012

Problems in Ontology, Class, Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-6pm, August 29 - December 5, 2012

Events

Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, Tutorial, Conference on Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense and Security, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 22, 2012

For past events see here

Contact

Defining Ontology

An ontology is a representation of some part of reality, (e.g. medicine, social reality, physics, etc.). Smith states that: “Ontology is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in every area of reality…Ontology seeks to provide a definitive and exhaustive classification of entities in all spheres of being.”1 To be an accurate representation of reality an ontology includes the types of entities and events in a given domain (along with their definitions) arranged in a hierarchical structure, along with relations (such as part-of, depends-on, caused-by, etc. where necessary). Ontologies enable the formulation of robust and shareable descriptions of a given domain by providing a common controlled vocabulary for doctrine writers, IT Developers, and war-fighters alike, thereby allowing these disparate communities to communicate with each other. An ontology should be a shared resource between communities, and its continued collaborative development should support the integration of information and facilitate knowledge discovery.2 These two goals are realized by ensuring wide dissemination of the ontology, so that it will be used by many stakeholders, and its terms will be correspondingly familiar and readily used for search.

Semantic Enhancement

Suggested Reading

Ontology: An Introduction

Coordinated Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies

Avoiding Perspective-Relative Silos

Universal Core Semantic Layer

Ontology Videos by William Mandrick

A Repeatable Process for Ontology Development

Avoiding Semantic Stovepipes: Five Ontological Principles for Interoperability

War-Fighter Ontology

William Mandrick