UCore Semantic Layer One-Day Training Event

A Strategy for Enhanced Information Management

Arlington, VA

One-day training event led by Barry Smith and Lowell Vizenor of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) on behalf of the Army Net-Centric Data Strategy Center of Excellence.

Venue and Schedule

Wednesday, 17 March 2010  0830-1630

Location: 2530 Crystal Drive Room T-7139, Arlington (Crystal City), VA   (Ten-minute walk from Crystal City Metro stop)

Registration

Please contact Bill Mandrick at william.mandrick@us.army.mil or 585-720-6106 to register a potential interest or obtain further information.

Universal Core

The Universal Core (UCore) is a central element of the United States National Information Sharing Strategy that is supported by four Federal Government Departments (Defense, Energy, Justice, Homeland Security), the Intelligence Community, and a number of other national and international institutions. The goal of the UCore initiative is to foster information sharing by means of an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema providing consensus representations for four groups of universally understood terms under the headings who, what, when, and where.

Universal Core - Semantic Layer

Universal Core - Semantic Layer (UCore-SL) is an OWL-based supporting layer for UCore, providing a logically well-structured vocabulary of terms, relations and definitions which can serve the semantic interoperability of UCore message content.


UCore-SL provides the logical support to allow more powerful reasoning and message-checking capabilities as compared with UCore 2.0. It provides also the facilities for enhanced data sharing by helping to ensure that extensions to UCore created by different Communities of Interest, for example within the Command & Control (C2) framework, are created in a logically consistent fashion on the basis of logically sound and easily understood definitions.

Training Event Topics

Topics to be covered will include:

• The Universal Core and the Net Centric Data Strategy
• XML, RDF, OWL
• UCore Semantic Layer (UCore-SL) -- A Logically Enhanced (OWL) Version of the UCore Taxonomy
• Definitions and Relations in UCore-SL
• UCore-SL, Battle Management Language (BML) and C2 Core
• Applications of UCore-SL
• to Quality Assurance of UCore
• to Management of UCore Extensions
• to Integration of External Data Resources (NIEM, JC3IEDM)
• to Reasoning with UCore Message Content
• UCore and UCore-SL: A Strategy for the Future

Resources

UCore Semantic Layer Artifacts as posted to DoD Metadata Registry
Universal Core Semantic Layer Paper by Course Instructor
Venue: Taylor Building, 531 Crystal Drive, Crystal City, Arlington, VA