ebBP 2/23/2006: FYI - Ontolog Invited Speaker - Asuman Dogac - Thu2006.03.02

[Monica J Martin <Monica.Martin@Sun.COM>]

Everyone,
As indirectly related to our work, Dr. Asuman Dogac will speak to the 
Ontolog Forum on 2 March 2006, about the use of ontological approaches 
with ebXML Registry/Repository. Some of the same mechanisms she 
envisions for use with IHE are directly applicable to support for 
business processes. A summary of her brief is found at [2].

As we've spoken, this work was sponsored by the by the eHealth and 
eBusiness Units of the European Commission. Look for the slides on this 
site soon: 
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_03_02 [1]

If you are interested in attending, please contact Peter Yim at: "Peter 
P. Yim" <peter.yim@cim3.com>.

Thanks.

[1] I have the draft slides although they may change prior to the event 
2 March.
[2] ebXML registry is capable of storing semantics about the registry 
objects. This semantics is restricted to classification hierarchies with 
properties. However it is possible to represent some Web Ontology 
Language (OWL) constructs in the registry and through stored procedures 
it is possible to make registry OWL aware. I will first discuss how to 
make ebXML registries OWL aware and then through an application in 
eHealth I will discuss how this semantics can be exploited.