1. 1 Natural, Semi-formal, and Formal Ontologies: Bridging the Layers, Limits, and Lacunas Protégé International Conference Sunday, Ontolog Forum F2F 9:00 am to 5:00 pm July 23 rd – July 26, 2006 Stanford, California, USA

2. 2 Agenda 1.Why this Workshop? 2.Workshop Objectives 3.Sundays Schedule 4.Logistics 1.Sunday: Group Dinner 2.Tuesday: SRI Group Tour & Seminar 5.Anticipated Results

3. 3 Why this Workshop? 2004 Face to Face Theme of Layers, Levels, and Limits: (Business Objects in Transition) Peter P. Yims tensions trigger Expansion towards Ontologizing a Body of Knowledge developed by the Ontolog Forum over 3 years Significant penetration of ontologies into business practices

4. 4 Workshop Objectives This workshop is targeted at those individuals who are concerned about the stability and alignment of formalized ontologies with the real world, especially in the context of ontologizing community-of-practice knowledge bases. This workshop will focus, not only on formalized ontologies, but on the relationships among the natural ontologies which exist within whole systems and efforts to create informal and formalized representations of them. The development of formalized ontologies is dependent, in large measure, on the nurturing and understanding of shared conceptualizations. The robustness of these natural ontologies can be expected to be critical to the successful development, implementation, and acceptance of ontology- based standards, especially in such areas as –health care, –emergency response, –e-government, and –service-oriented architectures

5. 5 Sunday Workshop Schedule 09:00 - 09:30: Kickoff and Introductions - BobSmith 09:30 - 10:30: Natural Ontologies –Alignment Issues – KurtConrad –Conceptualization Consensus Exercise – KurtConrad 11:00 - 12:30: Ontological Formalization and Deployment –Ontologizing the Ontology Body of Knowledge - Goals, challenges & Opportunities – PeterYim –Use Cases for Ontology Federation with Subject Maps – JackPark –Reflections on Engineering a Knowledge Base for an Intelligent Personal Assistant – BillJarrold 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch 14:00 - 15:30: Ontology Design Exercise - DeniseBedford (with RexBrooks on whiteboard) 16:00 - 17:00: Participant-driven discussion - Facilitator: KurtConrad 17:00 - 17:30: Wrap-up - Bob Smith / Mark Musen 18:30 - ??: Dinner at Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana, Palo Alto

6. 6 Il Fornaio Cucina Italiana 520 Cowper St. Palo Alto

7. 7 Anticipated Results Future directions and strategies Stakeholder identification and engagement Processes and expected results –Levels –Limits –Lacunas Pitfalls and tarpits to avoid

8. 8 Relevant URLs Protégé Conference Schedules / Tutorial & Workshop Options http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/schedule.html Ontolog Forum Homepagehttp://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ Ontolog Face-to-Face Workshop http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi- bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006 SRIhttp://www.sri.com/