Sam Oh：Ontology Design Methodology

Seminar Topic：Ontology Design Methodology

Time：9:00 am-10:30 am in December 17, 2018

Venue：Room 918 in Building 9

Lecturer：Professor Sam Oh

Brief Introduction：

Sam Oh, the current Chair of iSchool Consortium (2018-2019), the professor at Sungkyunkwan University (established in 1398), and the affiliate professor at UW iSchool. Prior to joining SKKU, he has worked in the UW iSchool for 4 years as an assistant professor. His teaching and research interests include data modeling, metadata, ontology, data analytics, and knowledge management. He has extensive consulting experiences with companies and government sectors in Korea. Sam is the current chair of DCMI Governing Board (2018). He chaired TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) for 6 years, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 (Document Description & Processing Languages) for 9 years. He has also teaching experiences at other iSchools such as Syracuse, Pittsburgh, UT Austin, and UNC at Chapel Hill.

This talk will cover the current and historical theory and practice surrounding the design, application and practice of semantic systems. Particular attention will be given to emerging standards and practices in the semantic web and other modern information services, including new languages and services being developed to express semantic systems such as RDF/OWL, Topic Maps, and Linked Data. The study of semantic systems is an underpinning of modern information management. It will investigate semantic interoperability among different ontologies and elaborate on concepts and technology related to Topic Maps and RDF/OWL to achieve semantic data modeling of complex world.