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“The Potential Of Semantic Technologies for e-Government” Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc. eGOV Open Source Conference Washington, DC March 18th, 2003
Agenda
Who is TopQuadrant?
The many Stakeholders of e-Government
The vision of Universal Access …
What we are trying to eliminate
The eGOV FEA as a Knowledge Architecture
How big / important is Ontology Engineering? According to the Analysts …
What does an Ontology do?
KSL - Vision of Intelligent Web Services - 2001
Semantic application integration is the next wave in the evolution of the Internet
The General Vision
Slide 13
Slide 14
What are ontologies? Where did they come from?
The Tree of Knowledge Technologies
XML on its own is not enough
Semantic Markup: DAML-S
XML
Ontology Standards
Meta-registries and Ontologies
Ontology Languages
NASA Ontology Engineering Example
RDF Associations by Example
Where are Ontologies being used?
Concept based search
Ontology Efforts
Ontology Tools and Standards
The Ontology Lifecycle
Envisioning has always been a necessary and difficult job
Envisioning a Solution is a critical pre-requisite to Ontology Engineering
TopQuadrant’s approach to ‘Solution Envisioning’ is “Design By Example” using “Capability Cases”
Capability Cases provide a bridge from Business Vision to effective System Solutions
A Gallery of Ontology-enabled Capability Cases
Solution Envisioning Workshop
Slide 36
FEA Initiatives – Candidate Capability Cases
OMB & eGOV
FEA Ontology
Protégé-2000 Open Source Ontology Tool – FEA Model
FEA Ontology Model - Governance Model (subset)
Examples from the FEA Ontology
Example from the FEA Ontology using Ontoprise’s OntoEdit Tool
Example of FEA Ontology in DAML+OIL – Some Classes
Example of Associations
Semantic FEA Capabilities Advisor
How the pilots map to the Knowledge Architecture?
Toward the practical application of ontology technology:
Unifying vision … … Decentralized but Connectable
Where to find out more about Ontology Engineering
Frequently Asked Questions about Ontologies
