1 Slide 1 Ontolog Forum The TaxoThesuarus Project: Building s Top-Down Ontology from the Bottom Up Patrick Heinig Project Performance Corporation Team Participants: Bob Smith Denise Bedford, Ph.D. World Bank Group Lisa Colvin Genetech September 7, 2006 Interactive Panel Discussion 410 pm – 535 pm

2 Slide 2 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Provide brief Summary of effort. Participate in the open discussion of how to use the first round of projects Session Purpose

3 Slide 3 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 The Team: BobSmith DeniseBedford LisaColvin PeterYim PatHeinig DagobertSoergel AntoinetteArsic...(sign up here if you want to join the team)!... The Team

4 Slide 4 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Abstract (by Denise Bedford): The Ontolog community is strategizing how to develop a baseline ontology to represent the entities, relationships and uses of content. The purpose of this ontology is to support the needs and uses of any members of the Ontolog Community. The intent is to provide a foundation upon which any member of the community could apply additional functionality or transform content into other ontology models. By content, we include the community of people, their work and expertise; all electronic archives and content created in and published via the wiki, and information that is referenced by the community members such as standards, reference models, meeting announcements and reports. We will discuss, in this session, how we should frame the issues, establish our requirements and to go about approaching this task of 'ontologizing' the Ontolog content. Milestones – Conference Call on

5 Slide 5 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Conference Call Discussion Session 1 - Framing the Issues, Requirements and Approach The first event of a series of talks and discussions on the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of Knowledge" during which this community will explore the "what's" and "how's" to the development of a semantically interoperable application, using the improved access to the content of Ontolog as a case in point. Milestones – Conference Call on

6 Slide 6 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Near-term Plan from that call: Denise, Bob, and Lisa will start working on the framework Others are welcome to join the effort Taxo-Thesaurus is the name of the project Peter will set up working page on Wiki for the team - done! - see project page at: OntologTaxoThesaurusOntologTaxoThesaurus Milestones – Conference Call on

7 Slide 7 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Conference Call Slides from Denise Bedford: Building a Top Down Ontology from the Bottom Up Milestones– Conference Call on

8 Slide 8 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 Bob Smiths presentation on started this project: bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_20#nidMKA bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_20#nidMKA Denise Bedford created a first cut inventory of online assets and posted it as: tolog-cwe-inventory-map_dbedford_ a.xls Slides from Denise Bedford on June 15: htttp://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologizingOntolog/TaxoThesaurus/Buildin g_a_Top_Down_Ontology_From_the_Bottom_Up-- DeniseBedford_ b.ppt Milestones

9 Slide 9 Ontolog Forum TaxoThesaurus – September 7,2006 3rd Ontolog Face-to-Face Meeting & Workshop - Stanford University, USA - July, bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_ bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006 Ontology Design Exercise - DeniseBedford (with RexBrooks on the whiteboard) DeniseBedford RexBrooks She presented a 7 step approach to be used in the workshop Milestones