[Person-ontology] Person-ontology Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3
Roberto Bordogna
bordogna at tin.it
Fri Oct 5 08:19:17 PDT 2007
Roberto Bordogna.
Dear Person-ontology Subscribers,
I've been (a poor) contributor to Jim Shoening's SUO (and an even
a poorer contributor to another US driven Working Group on Common
Ontology).
I'm very glad of this new emphasis about a Person ontology, that
promises to empower legacy applications,also thanks to the interest of
strong Industrial partnership, and I'm interested in Common Ontology for
the simple reason that it is the base for effective Communication and
Knowledge sharing (limited to what can be described).
The Idea of the "Person", I think, its a good starting point for a
lattice of common "knowledge objects" (its the foundation of our modern
thinking, that goes beyond Aristotle and Plato).
I know that professors tend to read more, write more and (eventually) to
produce just books (I'm working on one - that is my main goal at the
moment).
That is the reason for which I tend to be silent.
In fact I think that a provisional common ontology it's better then
nothing (that is the the reason for which in the SUO WG I've "seconded"
the Sumo proposal). And an effective shared ontology, (accordingly to
the "pragmatic rule" and experiences), appear to be possible if created
by people working in the Field supported by Logicians (and eventually by
Personnel professionals and other HRO organizations, I think).
--
I'm an independent researcher based in Milan
(Italy) interested in technology-based mediated understanding and
communication. With some academic background, I'm currently "contract"
professor (associate professor) at the Collegio Nuovo - Pavia University
(Pavia) of "Digital multimedia communication"(or CDMA). The Collegio
Nuovo, it's a private Educational Institution (http://colnuovo.unipv.it
founded by an Italian Lady Entrepreneur).
Trained as an Electronic Engineer,I have been working with Economists,
Anthropologists and Artists in various projects. I'm currently studying
Eastern Cultures and Eastern thinking inspired Logic (such as for
example Fuzzy Logic). Formerly I've been with DEC for more than a
decade, in various professional and managerial positions.
My "Pragmatic multimedia Lab" course at the Collegio (8th edition), has
been attended by (more than 200) students every year, mainly coming from
5 Pavia University-Faculties (ranging from Engineering to Human
Sciences) and sometimes from abroad (mainly Europeans - via the
"Erasmus" educational exchange program - but also Africans and few South
Americans).
--
I look forward to work with this distinguished group of experts,
for what I can.
Roberto.
Trained as an Electronics Engineer
> Today's Topics:
>
> 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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>
> Message: 1
> 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>
> Message-ID:
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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:
> <100320072108.22524.470404D5000407BE000057FC22230647629B0A02D2089B9A019C04040A0DBF080E9D0E9C9D019B07060E at bellsouth.net>
>
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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
--
Dr.Ing.Roberto Bordogna
Independent Researches
bordogna at tin.it
Corso Magenta 32
Milan 20123 Italy
Phone (39).02.8690867
and
Collegio Nuovo - Pavia University
roberto.bordogna at unipv.it
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