ESAO seminars

Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) — upcoming seminars:
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* December 17th, 2024

Speakers:

** Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Limited and University of Westminster, UK

Title of the talk: 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.

 

** Maria Keet, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Title of the talk: Competency questions.

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.

 

When:

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CET / 16:00 SAST (more local times)
Duration: 90 minutes
Video conference (via Zoom): https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ.1