OntologySummit2010_Content-Strawman-Proposal--MichaelGruninger-LeoObrst_20100114a.txt OntologySummit2010 - The Content Strawman Proposal by MichaelGruninger & LeoObrst 2010.01.14 ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2010_01_14#nid26HR Theme: OntologySummit2010 - Creating the Ontologists of the Future (26HR) This is our 5th Ontology Summit, a joint initiative by NIST, Ontolog, NCOR, NCBO and IAOA with the support of our co-sponsors. The theme adopted for this Ontology Summit is: "Creating the Ontologists of the Future" and was launched on 10-Dec-2009. Like previous years, this Ontology Summit will comprise of three months of virtual discourse, over our archived mailing lists, wiki, and virtual panel sessions (like this one), and will culminate in a 2-day face-to-face workshop/symposium to be held on Mon & Tue, 15 & 16-March-2010 at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.)) (26HS) * Session Topic: What's in the Brain of an Ontologist -- The Strawman's Proposal (26HT) Increasingly, major national and international projects centered on ontology technology are being advanced by governments and by scientific and industrial organizations. This brings a growing need for ontology expertise and thus for new methods and institutions for the training of ontologists. The 2010 Ontology Summit will explore strategies to address this need in terms of curriculum, establishment of new career tracks, role of ontology support organizations and funding agencies, as well as training in the analysis and comparison of methodologies for designing, maintaining, implementing, testing and applying ontologies and associated tools and resources. (26HU) In this session, the co-chairs will present a strawman (see below) on what we would expect an ontologist to know. Our expert panel, made up of educators, trainers and employers of ontologists, as well as practicing professional ontologists, will then take turns to provide their input regarding the proposed "content" and share their insights on the topic. The session will then be opened to all participants for Q&A and discussion with the co-chairs and the panel. (26HV) The Strawman Proposal: (26HW) Formal Foundations (26HX) * Mathematics and Computer Science: Set theory, category theory, formal languages, formal machines, data models (26HY) * Logic: Formal Logic, syntax and semantics (26HZ) * Semantics: Formal Semantics, Philosophy of Language (26I0) * Ontology: Formal Ontology (26I1) Knowledge Representation Languages (26I2) * First-Order Logic, Common Logic (26I3) * RDF (26I4) * OWL and Description Logics (26I5) * SWRL, RIF, Prolog (26I6) * SKOS (26I7) Automated Reasoning (26I8) * Refutation Theorem Proving (26I9) * Tableaux-based Theorem Proving (26IA) * Model Generation (26IB) Ontological Engineering (26IC) * Design Methodologies (26ID) * Ontology Analysis Techniques (e.g. OntoClean) (26IE) * Ontology Mapping (26IF) * Ontology Repositories (26IG) * Software Tools (Computer-Assisted Ontological Engineering) (26IH) Existing Ontologies - An ontologist should be familiar with widely used ontologies as well as ontologies that have been proposed or adopted as parts of international standards. (26IJ) * WordNet (26IK) * Folksonomies (26IL) * Taxonomies (26IM) * Topic Maps (26IN) * Dublin Core (26IO) * Bioinformatics (26IP) o Gene Ontology (26IQ) o OBO (26IR) o Biomedical ontologies such as those found in BioPortal (26IS) * GoodRelations (26IT) * Foundational / Upper Ontologies (26IU) o Cyc (26IV) o BFO (26MW) o DOLCE (26IW) o ISO 15926 (26IX) o SUMO (26IY) * PSL (ISO 18629) (26IZ) * Time Ontologies (26J0) * Mereotopologies (26J1) * Enterprise Ontology (26J2) * Semantic Web Services (WSMO, OWL-S, SWSO) (26J3) Applications (26J4) * Bioinformatics (26J5) * Semantic Web Technologies (26J6) * Manufacturing Systems / Supply Chain Integration (26J7) * E-Commerce (26J8) * Information Retrieval (26J9) * Computational Linguistics (26JA)