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It would be relevant for that series, and during the kickoff event one of the breakout topics was 'what is an applied ontology', but the EduCom does not yet have a particular activity for it, per se)<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As for myself, I'm interested in the question, but given my job search and study applications I can't guarantee more add more to volunteering.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In any case, if this 'what's an ontology' question is pursued in our SWAO group, then I'd imagine that those of us that re in both committees can probably help liaise.<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">And <span><span>if you want to write a paper on that for a journal or conference submisison, then i'd be interested in co-authoring...if you're open to that.</span></span><br><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">FYI: a while back I started compiling a catalog of 'ontology' (and cognate) definitions that i found to be particularly clear. 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On Monday, September 13, 2021, 02:19:43 PM EDT, Andrea Westerinen <arwesterinen@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv4647132329"><div><div dir="ltr">All, It looks like KenB is not available to start the SWAO call today. I will set up a new recurring meeting on Zoom for next month.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>In the meantime, I did some research on the plethora of "What is an Ontology?" materials available (since I started writing our take on the topic and found a lot of overlap with these other sources). Here is a short presentation with available materials. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I thought that a better (and more useful for the community) approach might be to collect all these sources together and distill areas of agreement and disagreement. For the areas of disagreement, we could then drill into them and explain things. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>What are people's thoughts? Is there still interest in this SIG?</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="yiv4647132329gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">Andrea Westerinen</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">T: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">425.891.8407</a></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">arwesterinen@gmail.com</a><font color="#888888"> or <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:andrea@ontoinsights.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:andrea@ontoinsights.com">andrea@ontoinsights.com</a> </font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://organizingknowledge.blogspot.com">organizingknowledge.blogspot.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://hearling-all-voices.blogspot.com">hearling-all-voices.blogspot.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv4647132329yqt2764536111" id="yiv4647132329yqt95135"><div class="yiv4647132329gmail_quote"><div class="yiv4647132329gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 8:14 PM Andrea Westerinen <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com">arwesterinen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv4647132329gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I had hoped to have a draft of the "What is an Ontology?" paper for Monday, Sept 13, but have not had time to create it.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>As that was the only (known) topic on the agenda, I am checking if others have topics to discuss. If so, please email this distribution list or just join the call (2pm EDT).</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The connection details for the call are: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Connection_Details_GTM">https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/SWAO:Connection_Details_GTM</a></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">Andrea Westerinen</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);">T: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">425.891.8407</a></div><div><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:arwesterinen@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">arwesterinen@gmail.com</a><font color="#888888"> or <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:andrea@ontoinsights.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:andrea@ontoinsights.com">andrea@ontoinsights.com</a> </font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://organizingknowledge.blogspot.com">organizingknowledge.blogspot.com</a></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://hearling-all-voices.blogspot.com">hearling-all-voices.blogspot.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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