Ontology Education
Ontology Education Through Audio and Video
The audio and video presentations below are intended to be informative, educational pieces to help educate the public about ontology at different levels, as well as to disseminate ideas to researchers, students, and those new to the field of ontology. Anyone from interested layperson to professional researcher should be able to find pieces of interest.
- Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies
- Educational Videos and Materials
- Ontology-Related Videos
- NCBO Seminar Series: Schedule, Videos & Slides
- BioPortal User Group Sessions: Schedule & Videos
- NCBO Project Meeting 2008: Slides and Videos
- Educational Publications
Educational Videos and Materials
- The Rapidly Growing Standards Landscape in ´omics
Susanna Sansone, European Bioinformatics Institute
Video - An introduction to http://neurolex.org, a dynamic lexicon of neuroscience
concepts supported by The Neuroscience Information Framework.
Video - BioMedical Ontology in Practice
Olivier Bodenreider - Protege Short Course - June 9-11, 2008
Slides - Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies
Barry Smith - Training Course - April 12-13, 2008
Details (includes videos & background reading) Slides - Video Introduction: How to Build an Ontology
Barry Smith - Stanford University - October 25, 2006
Windows Mediaplayer Video RealPlayer Video - The Ontology of Diseases
Baltimore, MD - November 6-7, 2006
PPT Slides and WMA Audio Presentations
- Presentations at the Workshop on Ontology of Images
Workshop - Stanford University - March 24-25, 2006
Basic Principles (RealPlayer) An Ontology for the Imaging Domain (RealPlayer)
Webcast of All Presentations - The HL7 Reference Information Model
Barry Smith - Regenstrief Institute, Indianapolis - November 9, 2005
Quicktime Movie
Educational Publications about Ontology Basics
These publications are a collections of introductory reading material meant to educate those interested in learning more about ontologies in general, and biomedical ontologies specifically.
- Biomedical Ontologies in Action: Role in Knowledge Management, Data Integration and Decision Support
Bodenreider, O. Yearb Med Inform. 2008; 67–79. PMCID: PMC2592252
- Typical examples of biomedical ontologies in action. - Ontology (Science)
Smith, B. Available from Nature Precedings. 2008.
- Authoring, maintenance and application of ontologies in scientific contexts; a new approach to the evaluation of ontologies and to the training of ontologists. - Function, Role, and Disposition in Basic Formal Ontology
Arp, R and Smith, B. Available from Nature Precedings. 2008.
- Overview of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as an upper-level framework to assist in the organization and integration of biomedical information. - Towards a Reference Terminology for Ontology Research and Development in the Biomedical Domain
Smith, B, Kusnierczyk, W, Schober, D, Ceusters, W. Proceedings of KR-MED 2006 57-65.
- Introductory material on the meanings of basic ontology terms. - Biomedical Ontologies: A Functional Perspective
Rubin, D, Shah, N, Noy, N. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2008 9(1):75-90; doi:10.1093/bib/bbm05.
- Overview of biomedical ontology in practical terms. - The National Center for Biomedical Ontology: Advancing Biomedicine through Structured Organization of Scientific Knowledge
Rubin, DL, Noy, NF, Richter, JD, Smith, B, Storey, MA, Solbrig, H, Chute, CG, Sim, I, Ashburner, M, Westerfield, M, Misra, S, Mungall, CJ, Lewis, SE, Musen MA. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology. 2006 10(2): 185-198.
- A publication about the NCBO. - Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
Noy, NF and McGuinness, DL. 2001.
- General ontology development guidelines, helpful hints, etc. (see http://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101.html for more information).
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