Practical
Ontology Construction
(Full Day)
Instructor:
Carsten Tautz, Manager Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge
Management Division, Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group
Description:
Ontologies have grown in importance for representing organizational
knowledge explicitly. While there exist several standards
for this purpose (e.g., Topic Maps, OIL, DAML), the construction
of comprehensive ontologies that reflect organization-specific
needs remains a challenge. This tutorial gives an overview
of the most important knowledge representation formalisms,
sets existing ontology specification languages in relation
to these formalisms, introduces organizational and methdological
concepts for continuous learning, and finally presents a
systematic, goal-oriented method for constructing ontologies
that meet organization-specific information needs based
on existing assets (e.g., text documents) and interests/needs
of stakeholders.
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Overview
of Topic Maps
(Full
Day)
Instructors:
Michel Biezunski, Consultant and Steven Newcomb, Consultant,
Coolheads Consulting
Description:
Topic Maps is an international standard (ISO/IEC 13250) for
aggregating knowledge while controlling infoglut. This tutorial
gives an introduction to the topic maps paradigm, a survey
of the state of the art, and a discussion of recent applications.
The XML syntax of the Topic Maps standard (XTM) will be presented
in detail as will the emerging abstract standard Reference
Model and Standard Application models. This tutorial is designed
for people who want to understand topic maps, to become familiar
with the conepts and with the vocabulary. The instructors
are the originators of the paradigm and the editors of the
standard.
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