Top and Mid Level Ontology

 

Background

The Top-Level and Mid-Level Ontologies Multi-Disciplinary Workshop is primarily intended to gather Top Level Ontology (TLO) and Mid-Level Ontology (MLO) stakeholders to create an EU based network, spanning from the philosophical community to formal TLO/MLO developers and users.

During the workshop we will ask some of the most relevant TLO and MLO developers and users to present their actual progress in the field, to depict the status and the role of high-level ontologies in the strategic perspective of European Industry digitalisation.

The workshop will give the opportunity to all attendees to contribute to the OntoCommons goal to create a Top Reference Ontology to facilitate alignments and comparisons between TLOs and MLOs, which will constitute the core of the OntoCommons EcoSystem (OCES): a set of ontologies and tools in the industrial domain following state-of-the art FAIR rules that will enable end users to harvest their potential at different levels, according to their specific needs.
Participant will take active role in the discussion, both during and after the event, providing valuable feedback to the OntoCommons project in the form of community driven objectives and strategic priorities, together with the identification of the bottlenecks that prevents further use of ontologies in the EU and the opportunities not yet fully exploited.

Participant are asked to register to the OntoCommons website and fill the dedicated questionnaire. A confirmation email will be sent by the organizers.

 

Who should join?

Top Level and Mid-Level ontology developers that want to:

  • participate to the EU coordinated initiative for ontology-based Data Documentation 
  • connect with other relevant stakeholders in the ontology fields
  • find opportunities for the exploitation of their ontology development


Ontology users that want to:

  • understand the opportunities that adopting a TLO/MLO may provide
  • contribute to a strategy for developing new framework and tools to improve their experience with ontologies
  • stay up-to-date with respect to the most recent developments


Researchers that want to:

  • formalise their knowledge into an ontological framework for data documentation and interoperability
  • introduce themselves into the field of ontologies


Industrial Stakeholders that want to:

  • understand the opportunities that adopting a TLO/MLO may provide
  • stay updated with the EU initiatives in the field of data digitalisation
  • contribute to include the needs of industry in the field of high level ontologies

 

 

Draft Agenda

DAY 1 - 25 March 2021
Time (CET) Topic Title Speaker

14:00

Introduction Welcome Nadja Adamovic, Senior Scientist at TU Wien & OntoCommons Project Coordinator
14:05 Introduction

OntoCommons Project Presentation and Objectives

Hedi Karray, Professor at ENIT & OntoCommons Technical Coordinator
14:20 Introduction Workshop structure and scope Emanuele Ghedini, Professor at the University of Bologna
14:35 Introduction OntoCommons: a Top Reference Ontology for TLOs/MLOs alignment Emanuele Ghedini, Professor at the University of Bologna
14:40 Introduction Ontologies and Interoperability in the NMBP Domain Anne de Baas,
14:55 Lecture What are and what role for TLOs? Stefano Borgo, CNR
15:20 Break
15:35 TLOs GFO Heinrich Herre
16:00 TLOs Tupper-PSL Michael Gruninger
16:25 TLOs UFO Giancarlo Guizzardi
16:50 TLOs YAMATO Riichiro Mizoguchi
17:15 TLOs OPM Dov Dori
17:40 MLOs The Ontology of Time and Process Antony Galton
18:00 Conclusion Day 1

 

 

DAY 2 - 29 March 2021
Time (CET) Topic Title Speaker

14:00

Lecture Ontologies and Philosophy of Science Claudio Calosi
14:25 TLOs BFO Barry Smith
14:50 TLOs DOLCE Claudio Masolo
15:15 TLOs EMMO Emanuele Ghedini, Professor at the University of Bologna
15:40 TLOs BORO Chris Partridge
16:05 TLOs ISO15926 Matthew West
16:20 Break
16:40 MLOs EMMO MLO Jesper Friis
17:00 MLOs Common Core Ontologies Ron Rudnicki
17:20 MLOs AFO Heiner Oberkampf
17:40 MLOs IOF Core Ontology Chris Will
18:00 Conclusion Day 2

 

 

DAY 3 - 8 April 2021
Time (CET) Topic Title Speaker

14:00

Experts HETS Till Mossakowski
14:20 Experts OAEI 2018 matching system Cassia Trojan
14:40 Experts Ontology Design Patterns Aldo Gangemi
15:00 Experts Digital Marketplaces/Simulation Platforms Adham Hashibon
15:20 Experts

ISO/TC 184/SC 4 "Industrial data"

Nils Sandsmark
15:40 Experts The Upper Ontology Alignment Tool Pascal Hitzler
16:00 Break
16:15 Future Events
16:30 Survey Results and Discussion
17:15 OntoTrans Project Feedback
18:00 End of the Workshop

 

If you have any question, please contact: emanuele.ghedini[@]unibo.it