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Comments from Recent Attendees:

This was an excellent seminar that was eye-opening even for people who are already familiar with ontologies and OWL.

-- Bob Price

Seriously good! I got what I came for. . . Many thanks—it was a week well spent.

-- Harry Ellis

Designing and Building Business Ontologies

An Intensive 4-DAY SEMINAR with Workshops and Demonstrations, on Semantically Enabling the Enterprise led by Dave McComb and Simon Robe

Ontology
An ontology is a formal description of the meaning of the information stored in a system. It resembles a conceptual model, but goes much beyond a conceptual model in that the formal definitions allow the system to infer class membership based on properties. Additionally, inference engines, running on ontologies, allow users to extract and integrate information stored in distributed systems.
This workshop, which will contain a number of live demos, will cover practical issues in employing ontologies.

Seminar Objectives

Participants will:

Gain an understanding of what an ontology is and what it can be used for.
Understand how representing information in an ontology goes beyond a conceptual model or a simple taxonomy
Understand the difference between frame based/ declarative classes and description logic based/ derivable classes.
Understand the difference between open world and closed world models.
Understand the basic principles for designing Ontologies for corporate applications.

An Intensive 4-DAY SEMINAR with Workshops and Demonstrations, on Semantically Enabling the Enterprise
Led by Dave McComb and Simon Robe

January 12 - 15, 2009
San Diego, California

Seminar Fee: $2495

Early Bird Discount:
Save $200 off San Diego seminar if paid by December 12.

Group Discount: Groups of 3 or more receive a 20% discount. The team discount is not available with online registration. Please call 310-337-2616 x103 to register your team or click here to download a fax-back registration form.