[esip-semanticweb] Fwd: Designing and Building Ontologies - San Francisco Workshop

[Peter Fox]

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> From: Kristen Franzon <info at wilshireconferences.com>
> Date: August 17, 2007 10:57:09 MDT
> To: pfox at ucar.edu
> Subject: Designing and Building Ontologies - San Francisco Workshop
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> Designing and Building Ontologies - San Francisco Workshop
>
> Designing and Building Ontologies
>
>
> An Intensive 4-Day Seminar with Workshops and Demonstrations, on  
> Semantically Enabling the Enterprise
>
> This workshop, which will contain a number of live demos, will  
> cover practical issues in employing business ontologies. You will  
> learn:
>
> * What an ontology is and what it can be used for.
> * How representing information in an ontology goes beyond a  
> conceptual model or a simple taxonomy.
> * The difference between frame based/ declarative classes and  
> description logic based/ derivable classes.
> * The difference between open world and closed world models.
> * The basic principles for designing Ontologies for corporate  
> applications.
>
>
>
>
> Led by Dave McComb & Simon Robe
>
> Where & When
> SAN FRANCISCO - October 9-12, 2007
>
> Workshop Fee: $2195
> Save $200 if paid by August 10, or $100 if paid by Sept 10
> An ontology is a formal description of the meaning of the  
> information stored in a system. It resembles a conceptual model,  
> but goes much beyond a conceptual model in that the formal  
> definitions allow the system to infer class membership based on  
> properties. Additionally, inference engines, running on ontologies,  
> allow users to extract and integrate information stored in  
> distributed systems.
>
> Seminar Outline
>
> DAY 1 - Introduction
> * Semantics and Information Systems
> * The Semantic Web
> * Description Logics (DL) and Open World Reasoning
>
> Building Blocks
> * Ontologies and an Ontology Editor
> * Object and Data Properties
> * Classes and Subsumption
>
> DAY 2 - Queries and Open World Reasoning
> * RDQL and SPARQL
> * Complex classes
> * Disjoint and Equivalence
> * Asserted instances
>
> Inference
> * Restriction classes
> * Pellet reasoner
> * Additional concepts
>
> DAY 3 - Designing an Ontology, starting with Taxonomies
> * Recap on inference
> * Taxonomies in Ontologies
>
> Classes and Instances in the Real World
> * Instance taxonomies
> * Faceted taxonomies
> * Partonomy and Mereology
>
> DAY 4 - Federating Ontologies
> * Federation and Import
> * Topology of a federation
> * Enterprise ontology
>
> The Bigger Picture
> * Limits of OWL and DL
> * Rules and inference systems
> * Architectural concerns
>
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