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''Video Presentations from [http://biocodecommons.org/workshops/sob.html Semantics of Biodiversity Workshop]'' (2012) | ''Video Presentations from [http://biocodecommons.org/workshops/sob.html Semantics of Biodiversity Workshop]'' (2012) | ||
<b>Day 1: Wednesday, May 16, 2012</b> | <b>Day 1: Wednesday, May 16, 2012</b> | ||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrHYi7mgF9g Ontologies as a method of viewing data] | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fot1dOPLv_c Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)] | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWy3C0WmpZM How to build an ontology with BFO] | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaG92j0WqmI Tracking referents with Instance Unique Identifiers (IUIs)] | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHP0Dlk5wuo Tracking Changes in Our Understanding of Reality: Reality vs. beliefs | |||
<b>Day 2: Thursday, May 17, 2012</b> | |||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of6bj28MQhY Darwin Core and Basic Formal Ontology: Putting it All Together] | |||
<li>Building Darwin Core top-down in BFO</li> | <li>Building Darwin Core top-down in BFO</li> | ||
<li>Organisms, photographs, media</li> | <li>Organisms, photographs, media</li> | ||
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<li>Ontologies of relevance for reuse (BFO, EnvO, IDO, OBI, Plant Ontology , Uberon, IAO)</li> | <li>Ontologies of relevance for reuse (BFO, EnvO, IDO, OBI, Plant Ontology , Uberon, IAO)</li> | ||
<li>Educational Resources (OBI, Protege, BFO)</li> | <li>Educational Resources (OBI, Protege, BFO)</li> | ||
==Military and Intelligence Ontology== | ==Military and Intelligence Ontology== | ||
Revision as of 13:41, 21 March 2014
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.
Events
Buffalo Ontology Group Meeting, IHI, Buffalo, January 27, 2014, 4-6pm
Ontology and Imaging Informatics, Buffalo, NY, June 23-25, 2014
Information Artifact Ontologies, Workshop organized as part of the FOIS 2014 Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 22, 2014
Studying Ontology in Buffalo
News
ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters, workshop organized in conjunction with Rho Federal Systems Division, Chapel Hill, NC, October 9-10, 2013
Advantages of the Financial Report Ontology in Accounting Research
UB Ontologists Win Bioinformatics Integration Award to Support National Institutes of Health
Announcing Clinical and Translational Science Ontology Affinity Group
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
Ontological Engineering, Class, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, Mondays from 4-7pm, August 26 - December 2, 2013
Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community, [http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu STIDS Conference, November 11-13, 2013
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.
The Philosophome
Semantics of Biodiversity
"Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery" (PLoS ONE, 2013)
Video Presentations from Semantics of Biodiversity Workshop (2012)
Day 1: Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Ontologies as a method of viewing data
How to build an ontology with BFO
Tracking referents with Instance Unique Identifiers (IUIs)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHP0Dlk5wuo Tracking Changes in Our Understanding of Reality: Reality vs. beliefs
Day 2: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Darwin Core and Basic Formal Ontology: Putting it All Together
Military and Intelligence Ontology
JFCOM: Semantic Web and Joint Training (2010)
Semantic Enhancement for DSGS-A: Distributed Development of a Shared Semantic Resource (2012-13)
Suggested Reading
Coordinated Evolution of Biomedical Ontologies
Avoiding Perspective-Relative Silos
Training Videos
Ontology for Intelligence, Defense and Security
A Repeatable Process for Ontology Development
Avoiding Semantic Stovepipes: Five Ontological Principles for Interoperability
