[Person-ontology] Orientation via Q&A's
Yuan An
yuan.an at ischool.drexel.edu
Thu Oct 4 15:15:51 PDT 2007
Hi All,
I am an Assistant Professor in the iSchool at Drexel University. I did
some work on discovering semantic mappings between heterogeneous data
representations. I created the MAPONTO tool for inferring mappings
from database schemas to ontologies.
I am now looking into improving digital references service using
different contextual backgrounds. I am interested in a person ontology
that can provide some information about users of a digital references
service. I am looking forward to working with you!
Best regards,
yuan
On 10/4/07, Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
<James.Schoening at us.army.mil> wrote:
> All,
>
> Please continue with self-introductions.
>
> Let's also do some informal orientation with Questions and
> Answers. Below is the announcement, which should prompt some questions.
>
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:43 PM
> To: Sicop-Forum at Colab. Cim3. Net (sicop-forum at colab.cim3.net)
> Subject: Potential Killer-App for Semantic Web
>
> SICOP Subscribers, (Apologies for cross-posting)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:35 PM
> To: standard-upper-ontology at listserv.ieee.org
> Subject: Potential Killer-App for Upper Ontology and Semantic Web
>
> SUO Subscribers,
>
> Here's more information on the Higgins open-source project and
> why it could provide (with our help) a de facto standard core ontology
> for the Semantic Web. You can participate by subscribing to the
> Person-Ontology list at
> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology (or send
> me an email).
>
> Higgins is being designed to give individuals control over their
> personal information and the ability to securely interface with vendors,
> governments, people, etc.
>
> IBM, Oracle, Novel, and some dot-coms believe enough in this
> potential to fund at least 20 full-time developers. If this takes off,
> it could grow quite large. After all, who doesn't want better control
> of their personal information.
>
> Users will see significant benefits. For example, to shop for
> auto insurance, they will answer the standard industry questions and
> obtain instant competitive quotes, with no middle man charging a fee.
> Plus, with the Higgins security, this will be private, so you're not
> sharing your profile with the world.
>
> As soon as a base of users emerges (or is anticipated), vendors
> will be eager to interface with them. Some will collaborate to release
> industry-specific extensions to the core ontology.
>
> Why an upper ontology? It's probably not needed for a
> stand-alone person-ontology, but would help with industry extensions,
> especially when vendors want to offer package deals with other
> industries, for example, if an airline wants to offer rental cars.
> Also, if this works with the buy-seller portion of a business, it could
> expand to other parts of the operation. This could quickly become a
> global standard for semantics.
>
> How do we help? The current Higgins Ontology is bare bones. We
> can make it better. We'll be starting out as a parallel effort, but the
> Higgins leaders are eager to see if we can do this, and to migrate to
> it.
>
> To monitor or join this open-source project, subscribe to the
> Person-Ontology list at
> http://idcommons.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/person-ontology or send me
> an email.
>
> Initial issues we'll address:
>
> a. Should Higgins consider a more robust
> person-ontology?
>
> b. If so, what ontology language should it be developed
> in?
>
> c. Should the Higgins Person-Ontology be based on an
> upper ontology?
>
> d. If so, what candidate upper ontologies should be
> considered, and which should be selected?
>
> Below is my original posting, which privides more information
> and links on the Higgins project.
>
> Please Reply with any comments or questions (to this SUO list),
> or join us on the Person-Ontology list. Thanks.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 5:49 PM
> To: 'standard-upper-ontology at listserv.ieee.org'
> Subject: User-centric ontology needed by another project
>
> SUO Subscribers,
>
> Here's a project that needs our help; and in turn, could provide
> a user base for an upper ontology.
>
> The Problem: We all have lots of data, but it's all inconsistent and we
> don't have control over it.
>
> Current Efforts:
>
> Microsoft Windows CardSpace (formerly InfoCard)(They don't need
> our help.)
>
> Higgins Project:
> http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/higgins-charter.php
> This is an open source effort. 'Higgins' comes from a
> name of mouse.
> Mission: To improve interoperability, privacy, and
> security as well as empower users with more control over their personal
> information.
> Higgins User-Centric Ontology
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_Ontology Good start, but they need our
> need and have welcomed it. This message invites participation by all.
> Please forward to others, who can subscribe by sending the message
> SUBSCRIBE STANDARD-UPPER-ONTOLOGY to listserv at LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG.
>
> I propose we:
>
> 1. Brainstorm and recruit particiation via this list for a
> couple weeks, then move to a new list to focus.
>
> 2. Review the current Higgins user-centric ontology
> http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/ontologies/2006/higgins.owl and start
> providing suggestions.
>
> 3. Develop strawman ontologies based on different upper
> ontologies. Evalaute, compare, and provide results to the Higgins
> project, which might decide to base later releases on an upper ontology.
>
>
> If Higgins takes off, it could grow as fast as Myspace or
> FaceBook, and if all the companies, organizations, and governments that
> deal with these users, some will choose to use the same upper ontology.
>
> This kicks of the brainstorming, so please post your thoughts.
>
> Jim Schoening
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Yuan An
Assistant Professor
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
http://www.ist.drexel.edu/faculty/yan
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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