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Ken Baclawski
Jan 13, 2025, 10:14:28 PMJan 13
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We are pleased to announce that the Ontology Summit 2025 will begin on Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
Conceptualization, Analysis and Formalization
The Two Sides of Ontology: Relating ontologies to the world and to theories about the world
The website for the Ontology Summit 2025 is available at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2025
The first session will be an overview. See https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2025_01_15
Nicola Guarino will give the keynote address of the summit on Wednesday 22 January 2025.
Sessions will be on Wednesdays at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1
Description:
In this summit we will consider the question of what an ontology is as well as how ontologies are related to other notions such as conceptualizations, theories and semantics. Nicola Guarino will set the stage for the summit with his keynote address: "Ontologies as specifications of conceptualizations: correctness, precision, and accuracy", which will be elaborated by Giancarlo Guizzardi who will discuss semantics, ontology and explanation. Accordingly, conceptualization is fundamental for ontologies, but a careful analysis is necessary for a specification to be useful. Michael Gruninger and Barry Smith will then examine how one can specify the conceptualization of reality by means of mathematical theories. The next session will raise the question of what a theory is, which will segue to a series of sessions that survey general philosophical and theoretical issues.
The second half of the summit will survey more concrete issues, specifically about data and its relationship to conceptualizations, reality and ontologies. Of special interest are ontologies that have large amounts of continually increasing instance data. How can one effectively verbalize and visualize such large ontologies? How can one control the quality as the data expands? How effective are these ontologies in practice? Can the ontologies adequately support reasoning?
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontolog Board of Trustees
Conceptualization, Analysis and Formalization
The Two Sides of Ontology: Relating ontologies to the world and to theories about the world
The website for the Ontology Summit 2025 is available at https://ontologforum.com/index.php/OntologySummit2025
The first session will be an overview. See https://ontologforum.com/index.php/ConferenceCall_2025_01_15
Nicola Guarino will give the keynote address of the summit on Wednesday 22 January 2025.
Sessions will be on Wednesdays at Noon US/Canada Eastern Time on Zoom at
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88593616861?pwd=HafnK0yB7PFDK1EyiUyQRDKanZlbjU.1
Description:
In this summit we will consider the question of what an ontology is as well as how ontologies are related to other notions such as conceptualizations, theories and semantics. Nicola Guarino will set the stage for the summit with his keynote address: "Ontologies as specifications of conceptualizations: correctness, precision, and accuracy", which will be elaborated by Giancarlo Guizzardi who will discuss semantics, ontology and explanation. Accordingly, conceptualization is fundamental for ontologies, but a careful analysis is necessary for a specification to be useful. Michael Gruninger and Barry Smith will then examine how one can specify the conceptualization of reality by means of mathematical theories. The next session will raise the question of what a theory is, which will segue to a series of sessions that survey general philosophical and theoretical issues.
The second half of the summit will survey more concrete issues, specifically about data and its relationship to conceptualizations, reality and ontologies. Of special interest are ontologies that have large amounts of continually increasing instance data. How can one effectively verbalize and visualize such large ontologies? How can one control the quality as the data expands? How effective are these ontologies in practice? Can the ontologies adequately support reasoning?
Ken Baclawski
Chair, Ontolog Board of Trustees
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