12 Dec
2024
12 Dec
'24
2:11 p.m.
(NEW title and abstract of Chris Partridge's presentation)
Dear all,
The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes
students, researchers and practitioners alike.
The 14h ESAO webinar will be held on Tuesday December 17th, 2024 at 16:00 CET.
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When and how to connect
Tuesday December 17th, 2024 15:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 17:00 SAST
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom) :
https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ…
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Program
15:00 - 16:30 UTC / 16:00 - 17:30 CET / 17:00 - 18:30 SAST / 12:00 - 13:30 UTC-3
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Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Limited and University of Westminster, UK
Extending the design space of ontologization practices: Using bCLEARer as an example
Abstract: The aim of this seminar is to suggest that the design space for the
ontologization process is richer than current practice would suggest. That it is possible
to open the space up to a range of radically new practices. This consciously builds upon
the notion that engineering processes as well as products need to be designed. We provide
evidence for the new practices from our work over the last three decades with an outlier
methodology, bCLEARer. We also provide some contextual scaffolding for a perspective that
we have found we needed to better understand the nature of these new practices. This is an
evolutionary perspective which sees digitalization (the evolutionary emergence of
computing technologies) as part of the latest step in a long evolutionary trail of
information transitions. And sees ontologization as a tool for exploiting the emerging
opportunities offered by digitalization.
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Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Competency questions (30 minutes + Q&A)
Abstract: Competency Questions (CQs) for ontologies were initially proposed as a way to
assist with scoping of an ontology's content requirements for ontology development,
but gradually have been taking up more diverse uses, including ontology validation and
reuse, and as part of test-driven development of ontologies. Since authoring CQs is
perceived as an arduous and error-prone task, research efforts have gone into automated
writing assistance, the notion of what good and bad CQs are, and their formalisation into
OWL and SPARQL queries. This ESAO webinar will cover CQ foundations and recent advances in
research on CQs for ontologies.
Best regards
Cassia Trojahn, Frank Loebe, Laure Vieu
On behalf of the IAOA Education Committee
[1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO