Autism

10/26/2006

DRAFT

The Autism by Autistics Project

Conference Call Monday, October 23, 2006

1. Chat Log:

  • Jeremy Sanderlin (to All - Entire Audience): hello everyone
  • Michael Mixon (to All - Entire Audience): hi
  • Jun Gi Ha (to All - Entire Audience): Hello
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): Brand-Thanks for participating and Kyle thanks for hosting
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): Jim's SICoP WG is Cross-Domain SI, Pat's is Ontology & Taxonomy Coordination, and Mike's is Cross-domain Vocabulary - these are separate from the Autism Project
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): We need to build an ontology for the Autism group and the other three groups have familiarity with ontologies.
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): I have suggested that the Autism Group start with simple ontologies for FOAF, DOAP, etc.
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): Ontologies form the basis for building semantic applications in the SW and capuring real data in RDF format
  • Jeremy Sanderlin (to All - Entire Audience): I see that ontologies have a close association with a traditional object class in OO programming
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): Jim, We have talked about importing the major ontologies like SUMO, etc.
  • Jeremy Sanderlin (Private): okay Brand. I now see the connect between OO programming and ontologies/sematic wiki. I think I see this coming together.
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): Great! I can send you some excellent tutorials that have been presented in our SICoP meetings and conferences. SEE BELOW
  • Jeremy Sanderlin (Private): I would very much like to work through those tutorials. There seems to be a bit of a learning curve.
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): The tools allow import of Excel, UML, XSD, etc. to jump start ontologies in OWL
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): krecsky@visualknowledge.com
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): 604-730-0086
  • Brand Niemann (to All - Entire Audience): I am starting to work with Scott to identify and verify Autism concepts so we can construct an ontology(s) that can form the basis for applications

2. Ontology Tutorial and Tools:

Ontology Tutorial at the 5th Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference, October 10-11th:

Concept MAP Home Page: http://cmap.ihmc.us/

3. Autism Sandbox:

10/21/2006

Brand's Seminar to University of Georgia Terry School of Business Students on October 17th:

Five Step Process for Working in the Semantic Wiki:

  • 1. Prepare a CoP Mission Statement
  • 2. Prepare a CoP Membership List
  • 3. Prepare a CoP Strategy
  • 4. Hold a Wiki Training Conference Call (with items 1-3 entered into the Wiki space)
  • 5. Get commitments to collaboratively publish and edit trusted reference knowledge sources in the Wiki space.

1. Mission Statement: Help autistic people publish their experiences and learn to build and use information technology services on the World Wide Web.

2. Membership List:

Note: Photograph from October 17th Meeting


  1. Charlie Gunti: cgunti@gmail.com
  2. Jun Gi Ha: dangun@uga.edu
  3. Michael Mixon: mmixon@uga.edu
  4. Rhonda Gantt: rjgantt@uga.edu
  5. Jeremy Sanderlin: sanderj@uga.edu
  • Others:
  1. Scott Bales: gisman@bellsouth.net
  2. Gregory Abowd: gregory.abowd@cc.gatech.edu
  3. Brand Niemann: niemann.brand@epa.gov
  4. Richard Hammond: hammond.richard@epa.gov
  5. Al Buckmaster: abuckmaster@atlantaga.gov
  6. Liora Sahar: gtg662u@mail.gatech.edu
  7. Betty Dabney: bjdabney@verizon.net
  8. Judy Qualters: jqualters@cdc.gov
  9. Charles M. Croner: ccroner@cdc.gov
  10. Kyle Recsky: krecsky@visualknowledge.com
  11. Chuck Rehberg: chuck_r@trigent.com

3. Strategy:

Investigate the use of Semantic Wiki technology for content management and for an ontology-based platform for building services. Ontologies are an advanced technique to structure knowledge and may help autistic people learn abstract reasoning. A free test Semantic Wiki is available through SICoP (Brand Niemann, Co-Chair) and Visual Knowledge (Kyle Recsky). See http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FifthSemanticInteroperabilityforEGovernmentConference_2006_10_1011 and http://vkwiki.visualknowledge.com/. The Project Presentation is to be scheduled sometime during April 5-May 1, 2007.

4. Training Conference Call:

  • Monday, October 23, 2006, 6 PM EST
  • URL for GoTo Meeting: Kyle Will Provide
  • Call-in Number: (319) 632-1100 and Access Code: 484206
  • Items 1-3 have been placed in the test Semantic Wiki space

5. Commitments to Collaborate on Trust Reference Knowledge:

The Team agreed at the October 17th meeting to pursue a parallel, hopefully converging – efforts on the following:
































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