Purpose
The purpose of this site is to facilitate the rapid exploitation of the methods of ontology by the U.S. Military, for the purposes of:
Providing an ontological resource to support representing, defining, and relating constituent elements in various military domains
Identifying best practices in ontology development and creating a repeatable process
Creating interoperable and consistent semantics in a modular fashion
Facilitating the Horizontal Integration of Warfighter Information
Providing an ontological resource to support representing, defining, and relating constituent elements in various military domains
Identifying best practices in ontology development and creating a repeatable process
Creating interoperable and consistent semantics in a modular fashion
Facilitating the Horizontal Integration of Warfighter Information
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Military Ontology is...
The science of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes and relations in military domains
Advanced by the cultivation of a discipline that is devoted precisely to the representation of entities as they exist in reality
A definitive and exhaustive classification of entities in a given military domain
The provision of robust and shareable descriptions of a given domain
The formulation of a common controlled vocabulary for Commanders, War-Planners, Operators, and Doctrine Writers
A shared resource for disparate communities to communicate with each other
A tool for collaborative development supporting the integration of information and facilitating knowledge discovery
CJCSI 3340.04 Horizontal Integration (HI) of Warfighter Intelligence
HI is the set of processes and capabilities to acquire, synchronize, correlate, and deliver national security community data with responsiveness to ensure success across all policy and operational missions.
By ‘horizontal integration’ (HI) we understand the ability to exploit multiple data sources as if they are one. Existing approaches to the horizontal integration of intelligence data fail for a number of reasons. The data is siloed. The lexicons used to describe the data are poorly and redundantly structured. And the volume, velocity, and variety (Gartner’s 3Vs) of the gigantic bodies of available data overwhelm existing solutions because the data coming onstream are out of our control.
By ‘horizontal integration’ (HI) we understand the ability to exploit multiple data sources as if they are one. Existing approaches to the horizontal integration of intelligence data fail for a number of reasons. The data is siloed. The lexicons used to describe the data are poorly and redundantly structured. And the volume, velocity, and variety (Gartner’s 3Vs) of the gigantic bodies of available data overwhelm existing solutions because the data coming onstream are out of our control.
E-Maps
Warfighters & DoD need to share warfighting & business data and information.
Data and information that cannot be easily shared is considered stovepiped.
E-MAPS document explains concepts and methods essential to:
(1) Creating data, information, and IT systems that are not stovepiped and
(2) Integrating data, information, and IT systems that are stovepiped.
Semantic Technology for Intelligence and Security (STIDS Conference 2012)
The 7th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2012) was held in October of 2012 at the comfortable facilities of the Mason Inn Conference Center. The main conference was held on October 24-25, with a tutorial session on October 23 and a classified session was held for those with TS/SCI clearances on October 26.
STIDS provides a forum for academia, government and industry to share the latest research on semantic technology for defense, intelligence and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler to achieve greater flexibility, precision, timeliness and automation of analysis and response to rapidly evolving threats.
STIDS provides a forum for academia, government and industry to share the latest research on semantic technology for defense, intelligence and security applications. Semantic technology is a fundamental enabler to achieve greater flexibility, precision, timeliness and automation of analysis and response to rapidly evolving threats.
Military Ontology has been practiced by Commanders and War Planners since the dawn of organized warfare. In the book On War, Clausewitz wrote about the need to develop situational awareness (and Situational Understanding) through the practice of mereology (the theory of part-hood relations):
"...three quarters of the information upon which all actions in War are based on are lying in a fog of uncertainty...The first thing needed here is a fine, piercing mind, to feel the truth with the measure of its judgment..."
“I shall proceed from the simple to the complex...in war more than any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together...”
Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Basic Formal Ontology (click on BFO icon to visit the home page)
BFO grows out of a philosophical orientation which is focused on the task of providing a genuine upper ontology which can be used in support of domain ontologies developed for scientific research, as for example in biomedicine within the framework of the OBO Foundry. Thus BFO does not contain physical, chemical, biological or other terms which would properly fall within the special sciences domains.
The BFO project was initiated in 2002. The theory behind BFO was developed initially by Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon and presented in a series of publications listed here. Since then important contributions to BFO have been made by many people, including: Werner Ceusters, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Holger Stenzhorn, Alan Ruttenberg, Mathias Brochausen, Bjoern Peters, Kerry Trentelman, and by more than a hundred other members of the BFO Discussion Group. Its development has been carried out under the auspices of the project Forms of Life sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.
The BFO project was initiated in 2002. The theory behind BFO was developed initially by Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon and presented in a series of publications listed here. Since then important contributions to BFO have been made by many people, including: Werner Ceusters, Chris Mungall, Fabian Neuhaus, Holger Stenzhorn, Alan Ruttenberg, Mathias Brochausen, Bjoern Peters, Kerry Trentelman, and by more than a hundred other members of the BFO Discussion Group. Its development has been carried out under the auspices of the project Forms of Life sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation.
National Center for Ontological Research
This work is supported by the National Center for Ontological Research at the University at Buffalo.
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