[Person-ontology] Person-ontology Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3
Parsa Mirhaji
Parsa.Mirhaji at uth.tmc.edu
Thu Oct 4 10:37:13 PDT 2007
I am an assistant professor of Health Information Sciences in the
Universityo of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, with some background
in AI and Knowledge Representation as applied to building semantic
integration and natural language understanding for biomedical information...
Currently I am looking for alternate formal models to not only to describe a
Person, but also help uniquely identify one, with respect to the degree in
which we need them to be identified! That is, a gray scale from being
completely unidentified but unique Person to semi-identified and absolutely
identified unique Person ...
Best wishes...
Parsa
Parsa Mirhaji, MD
Director, The Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Informatics Research
The School of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas -Health Sciences Center at Houston
Office: (713) 500-3157
Fax: (713) 500-0370
Assistance (Namiko Burleson): (713) 500-3938
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> 1. Let's get started (Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC)
> 2. Re: Let's get started (ajitorsarah at bellsouth.net)
> 3. Re: Let's get started (Pat Hayes)
> 4. Re: Let's get started (Adam Pease)
> 5. Re: Let's get started (Obrst, Leo J.)
> 6. Re: Let's get started (Drummond Reed)
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> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:51:53 -0400
> From: "Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC"
> <James.Schoening at us.Army.Mil>
> Subject: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: <person-ontology at idcommons.net>
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> 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:08:37 +0000
> From: ajitorsarah at bellsouth.net
> Subject: Re: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: "Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC" <James.Schoening at us.Army.Mil>,
> <person-ontology at idcommons.net>
> Message-ID:
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> To All Participants;
>
> Hello, My name is Ajit Kapoor and I am most recently retired from Lockheed
> Martin as Director and Chief architect for the Corporate CIO/CTO Office. I am
> the Principal at The Kapoor Group which is a advisory organization aimed at
> developing IT that is responsive to business needs. My brief biography is
> attached for those interested. I am very interested in the semantic aspects of
> the information access as it relates to our fulfilling the promise of SOA in
> the broadest sense-Autonomous systems will be needed to be built on the
> principles of agile infrastructure which have access to the real time
> information. I look forward to participating in this forum and learn from the
> group knowledge base.
>
> Ajit Kapoor
> Managing Director
> The Kapoor Group
> 1422 Briercliff Dr
> Orlando, FL 32806
>
> -------------- Original message from "Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC"
> <James.Schoening at us.Army.Mil>: --------------
>
>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Person-ontology mailing list
>> Person-ontology at idcommons.net
>> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:38:14 -0500
> From: Pat Hayes <phayes at ihmc.us>
> Subject: Re: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: person-ontology at idcommons.net
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>>> Let's start with self-introductions (for those who wish to speak
>>> up at this point).
>
> My name is Pat Hayes, a senior scientist (meaningless title) at
> Florida IHMC, which is a smallish research center on the Gulf coast.
> My background is in AI/KR with a focus on logical techniques, and Ive
> been interested in ontologies since before they were being called
> 'ontologies'. Ive been active in the W3C Semantic Web activity,
> helping develop some of the basic specs (DAML, RDF, RDFS, OWL and
> SPARQL; but not RIF or OWL 1.1, as I now have
> standardization-burnout.) I also co-authored the ISO Common Logic
> standard (to-be; its now in final committee review) and led the group
> that developed IKL, a self-describing CL extension. Current activity
> includes collaborating with visual artists to apply semantic
> techniques to the descriptions of artwork. I was a member of Jim's
> SUO group for a while, and was probably one reason it never got to
> consensus. IMO, the goal of a trying to create a single definitive
> 'upper ontology' is mistaken, and leads inevitably to interminable
> and unresolvable philosophical arguments; so I am delighted to see
> that energy is now being applied to more useful work on real topics,
> like Persons.
>
> Pat Hayes
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:41:24 -0700
> From: Adam Pease <adampease at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: "Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC" <James.Schoening at us.Army.Mil>
> Cc: person-ontology at idcommons.net
> Message-ID: <47040C84.7030601 at earthlink.net>
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>
> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Person-ontology mailing list
>> Person-ontology at idcommons.net
>> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology
>>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:03:50 -0400
> From: "Obrst, Leo J." <lobrst at mitre.org>
> Subject: Re: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: "Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC" <James.Schoening at us.Army.Mil>,
> <person-ontology at idcommons.net>
> Message-ID:
> <9F771CF826DE9A42B548A08D90EDEA80026364BB at IMCSRV1.MITRE.ORG>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> Hi, folks,
>
> My bio is on the Ontolog Forum at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LeoObrst
>
> Currently and serendipitously, I am involved with efforts to define
> notions such as Time, Location, Person, Event, etc. for a cross US
> federal govt effort. I hope we can do good stuff here and make an
> impact globally on information sharing via formal ontologies.
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
> _____________________________________________
> Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
> lobrst at mitre.org Information Discovery & Understanding, Command and
> Control Center
> Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305
> Fax: 703-983-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: person-ontology-bounces at idcommons.net
> [mailto:person-ontology-bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Schoening,
> James R Mr CIV USA AMC
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:52 PM
> To: person-ontology at idcommons.net
> Subject: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Person-ontology mailing list
> Person-ontology at idcommons.net
> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:40:23 -0700
> From: Drummond Reed <Drummond.Reed at parityinc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
> To: "person-ontology at idcommons.net" <person-ontology at idcommons.net>
> Message-ID:
> <8123B0AED774854D9A709CFC2C5E2D5670A20C4854 at EXVMBX015-1.exch015.msoutlookonlin
> e.net>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I wear a number of hats:
>
> * VP Infrastructure for Parity, the Boston-based company that initiated the
> Higgins Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgins_project),
> * Chief architect for Cordance, the company that initiated work on what has
> become the XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) standard
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI) and the upcoming XDI (XRI Data Interchange)
> standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI).
> * Co-chair of the XRI and XDI Technical Committees at OASIS
> - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xri/
> - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/
> * Secretary of XDI.org (http://www.xdi.org).
> * Steward of Identity Commons (http://wiki.idcommons.net), the upside-down
> umbrella organization of which the Identity Schemas Working Group is a part.
> * Member of the Identity Schemas Working Group (http://identityschemas.org),
> of which this mailing list is a part.
>
> I work closely with Parity CEO Paul Trevithick and the Parity and Higgins
> development teams on the relationship of Higgins and XDI, much of which
> focuses on ontologies. A few weeks ago at the Data Sharing Summit
> (http://datasharingsummit.com), Paul, Parity developer Markus Sabadello, and I
> introduced the Identity Commons Community Dictionary Service (CDS -
> http://cds.idschemas.idcommons.net). The CDS, in conjunction with the new
> Cloudtripper Project (http://www.cloudtripper.org) for development of Higgins
> context providers (the plug-ins that use the CDS and know how to talk to
> different data sources), is what led us to the conversation with Jim that
> resulted in starting this list.
>
> I'm particularly excited about what we'll be discussing here because, although
> I'm a newbie when it comes to full formal ontologies, I'm steeped in the
> development of the XDI RDF model, which provides a powerful new way to
> express, address, and share both definitions and instances of ontologies. (See
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25531/xdi-rdf-model-v7.pdf
> for more info.)
>
> So the combination of Higgins and XDI could, as Jim suggests, provide a bridge
> between the world of formal ontologies and rich new set of identity-enabled,
> user-centric applications for the benefit of both individuals and businesses
> the world over.
>
> I look forward to learning more from real ontologists, and helping (wherever I
> can) to adapt their work to XDI and Higgins.
>
> =Drummond
> =============================
> Drummond Reed
> VP Infrastructure, Parity Communications
> http://xri.net/=drummond.reed
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: person-ontology-bounces at idcommons.net [mailto:person-ontology-
>> bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:52 PM
>> To: person-ontology at idcommons.net
>> Subject: [Person-ontology] Let's get started
>>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Person-ontology mailing list
>> Person-ontology at idcommons.net
>> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology
>
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