My keynote at the Ontologies Come of Age workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn Germany. This workshop was named after a paper I wrote about a decade ago.
1. Ontologies Come of Age: The Next Generation OCAS October 24, 2011 Bonn, Germany Deborah L. McGuinness Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA
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3. What is an Ontology? Catalog/ ID General Logical constraints Terms/ glossary Thesauri “ narrower term” relation Formal is-a Frames (properties) Informal is-a Formal instance Value Restrs. Disjointness, Inverse, part-of… Ontologies Come of Age McGuinness , 2001, and From AAAI Panel 99 – McGuinness, Welty, Uschold, Gruninger, Lehmann Plus basis of Ontologies Come of Age – McGuinness, 2003
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11. Semantic Web Methodology Originally developed for VSTO, now in SSIII, SESDI, SESF, OOI … McGuinness, Fox, West, Garcia, Cinquini, Benedict, Middleton The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research. Proc. 19 Conf. on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07), http ://www.vsto.org
18. Ontologies for the Real World Deborah L. McGuinness Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
How to: In the “Regulation” box, check the “CA Regulation”, and Click “Go” Results: We can see that there are more polluted water sites, polluting facilities based on CA Regulation”.
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Many Benefits: Reduced query formation from 8 to 3 steps and reduced choices at each stage Allowed scientists to get data from instruments they never knew of before (e.g., photometers in example) Supported augmentation and validation of data Useful and related data provided without having to be an expert to ask for it Integration and use (e.g. plotting) based on inference Ask and answer questions not possible before But Needed Provenance (SPCDIS, PML), reusability & modularity (SESF) Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, and Don Middleton. The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research. In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007. Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, and Don Middleton. Ontology-supported Scientific Data Frameworks: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory Experience. In Computers and Geosciences - Elsevier. Volume 35, Issue 4 (2009).
Many Benefits: Reduced query formation from 8 to 3 steps and reduced choices at each stage Allowed scientists to get data from instruments they never knew of before (e.g., photometers in example) Supported augmentation and validation of data Useful and related data provided without having to be an expert to ask for it Integration and use (e.g. plotting) based on inference Ask and answer questions not possible before But Needed Provenance (SPCDIS, PML), reusability & modularity (SESF) Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, and Don Middleton. The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research. In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-07). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007. Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, and Don Middleton. Ontology-supported Scientific Data Frameworks: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory Experience. In Computers and Geosciences - Elsevier. Volume 35, Issue 4 (2009).