NetworkMeeting2

Network Meeting 2: The Ontology Lifecycle and Tools

The theme of the second network meeting, hosted by the University of Manchester, is the identification of requirements at different stages of the ontology life cycle that may have specific tool support requirements.

During the meeting we aim to:

• identify and discuss the aspects at each stage of the ontology building lifecycle that produce different requirements"
  

• discuss how the development of tools (& standards) should account for these differing requirements. In particular we will focus on how tools can adapt to different requirements.
  

• introduce a variety of ontology building tools concentrating on how they can be adapted and what to do if "you" find a requirement that a generic view of a tool does not allow you to cope with in a satisfactory way.
  

Contents:

1. Meeting Details
   1. Dates/Time
   2. Meeting Location
   3. Directions
   4. Accommodation
   5. Costs
2. Programme of speakers and presentations
3. Potential Discussion Points
4. Blog
5. Organisers
6. Attendees
7. Outcomes
8. Notes

1. Meeting Details

1.1. Dates/Time

March 21 and 22 2007

1.2. Meeting Location

Atlas Rooms 1 and 2
Kilburn Building
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PT

Telephone: (0161) 275 1125
Map:

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The University of Manchester Campus Map is attached.

1.3. Directions

By bus
The University of Manchester is well served by bus routes.Most of these are accessible from the rail stations at Oxford Road and at Piccadilly and at numerous points across the city.Many buses will carry the destinations: University of Manchester, Owens Park, Didsbury etc.

Asking for "the first stop under the Precinct Centre bridge" will leave you directly outside the Kilburn building. Located along the north side of the building is the main entrance to Manchester Computing. Finding buses outside the stations and city centre is relatively easy.

By Car
It is advisable to use public transport to travel to Manchester, as there is a lot of congestion on both the main motorways and ring-roads. However if you do need to travel by car, directions are available from Multimap www.multimap.co.uk - our postcode is M13 9PL

Parking
There is a public multi-storey car park on Booth Street East (building numbered 66 in top right corner) which is convenient for visitors to both the Kilburn and IT Buildings. Current charges are £3 per day. Official visitors to the department may request that their host sends them a parking permit prior to their visit which will give access to the university's North East Car Park (also reached from Booth Street East). There is no free on-street parking in the area.

By rail
Manchester has three main stations: Oxford Road, Piccadilly and Victoria. The easiest way to get from here is by cab.

1.4. Accommodation

Accommodation can be arranged by George Moulton. All participants requiring accommodation have been booked in the Manchester Business School:

• Wednesday

  Thursday

Details of location can be found at: http://www.mbs.ac.uk/services/conference-hotel/index.htm Cost for one night bed and breakfast is £58.75 including VAT. Please could pay and claim expenses from me at the meeting.

1.5. Costs

The Ontogenesis Network will be at a small cost of £28.60 This covers running costs, refreshments and evening meal(no drinks).

2. Programme of speakers and presentations

We are in Atlas Rooms 1 and 2

DAY 1

12.30 Lunch will be served in meeting rooms
13.00 Introduction (Robert, Andrew and George)
13.15 Talk 1 Jeremy Rogers "Large Medical Ontologies: Experiences of development, maintenance and deployment"
14.15 Talk 2 Jane Lomax (EBI)
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Talk 3 Katy Wolstencroft (University of Manchester)
16.15 Panel Discussion
17.00 End of Day 1

19.00 Evening meal

DAY 2

09.00 Welcome
09.15 Talk 4 Frank Gibson (University of Newcastle)
10.00 Talk 5 Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester) “Service-orientated access to ontologies”
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Talk 6 David Shotton and Joanna Bagiewska (University of Oxford)"Early phases of community ontology development: the Animal Behaviour Ontology"
12.00 Talk 7 Norman Morrison (University of Manchester)
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Talk 8 Bijan Parisa (University of Manchester)
14.45 Coffee
15.00 Panel Session
16.15 Administration and thoughts for next meeting
16.30 Close

3. Potential Discussion Points

* A consensus of ontology development lifecycle phases and key characteristics of lifecycle phases and transitions

* A shortlist of ontology purposes/intended outcomes that help to differentiate how purpose affects task behaviour in the aforementioned phases

* An identification of the tasks that characterise ontology development in our cohort

* A set of points that help to compare and contrast the characteristics of the ontology development tools represented at the meeting

* Identify features that may be transferable to improve the experience of ontology development, particularly between existing tools

* A set of requirements, providing for tasks that we have identified that a) Can be suitably and reasonably be addressed by current tools
b) Require more focused technological development and/or standards

* A consideration of the most rate limiting tasks in the lifecycle

4. Blog

During the workshop there will be a BLOG for you to record your thoughts!
The blog can be found at http://www.ontogenesisnetwork.blogspot.com/
George will have registered you to the blog and details will be sent via email to you BEFORE the meeting.
This will enable you to create a username for posting blogs and comments.

5. Organisers

Andrew Gibson ( andrew.p.gibson@manchester.ac.uk), Robert Stevens ( robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk) and George Moulton ( georgina.moulton@manchester.ac.uk)

6. Attendees

David Shotton
Robert Stevens
Georgina Moulton
Graham Klyne
Andy Gibson
Matthew Horridge
Alan Rector
Nick Drummond
Simon Jupp
Louise Casey-Hayleford
Daniel Schrober
Bela Tiwari
Mikel Egaña Aranguren
Yuwei Lin
Jun Zhao
Kevin O'Neill
Ian Crowlesmith
Joanna Bagiewska
Sean Bechoffer
Hein Slief
John Rooksby
Phil Lord
Christopher Brewster
Emma Tonkin
Kearon McNicol
Salman Elahi
Katy Wolstencroft
Frank Gibson
Bijan Parisa
Oscar Corcho
Norman Morrison
Jane Lomax
Jeremy Rogers

7. Outcomes

*OutComes Reports, outcomes, notes and feedback from meeting

8. Notes

GK's notes linked from http://imageweb.zoo.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Miscellaneous

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-- GeorginaMoulton 2006-10-18 16:27:51