[Person-ontology] Let's get started

[Adam Pease]

Hi Folks,
   Jim already has given me a bit of an introduction but here's a little 
more.  I'm CEO of a small consulting company called Articulate Software. 
  I've been working on the open source SUMO theory since its inception 
in 2000.  The latest versions are posted at 
http://www.ontologyportal.org.  I've also been working on an open source 
browsing and reasoning system called Sigma http://sigmakee.sourceforge.net.
   I did some work recently to map FOAF to SUMO 
http://sigmakee.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/sigmakee/KBs/FOAFmap.kif 
for use in expressing information about people in the DBpedia effort 
http://www.ontologyportal.org/content/DBPediaPeople.zip.  This would be 
a reasonable start at showing how a SUMO-based person ontology could be 
constructed.  There are many more relevant concepts in SUMO for 
describing people, but this shows how a small schema can re-expressed in 
SUMO, and therefore make use of SUMO's more sophisticated facilities for 
logical reasoning.  Note the SUMO includes many rules which allow for 
reasoning that is more powerful than what is available with OWL-based 
ontologies.

Adam

Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC wrote:
> Person-Ontology Participants,
> 
> 	The number of subscribers has leveled off around 28, so let's
> get started.
> 
> 	Let's start with self-introductions (for those who wish to speak
> up at this point).  Those just lurking at the moment are welcome to do
> so, and join in at any time.  In a couple days, I'll start with some
> orientation and a couple issues to discuss, which can overlap with
> introductions.  I'll start with my relevant background:
> 
> 	I'm an Electronics Engineer with the U.S. Army at Ft. Monmouth,
> NJ, but this is an after-hours professional activity for me.  I funded
> (from my Army position) the original development of the SUMO upper
> ontology (but Adam Pease gets the other 99% of the credit).  I organized
> and chaired the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology WG, which had a number of
> draft documents (including SUMO), but not enough consensus to pass any
> of them.  I've recently be offered the position as Data Strategy Team
> Leader of the Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence.  I've
> been pondering for years how ontologies and upper ontologies could
> enable individuals to gain control and utilize their personal
> information, which is the objective of this sub-group.   
> 
> 	Next.
> 	  
> Jim Schoening		
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