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IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO WG) Cumulative Resolutions Search IEEE This page contains the cumulative resolutions of the SUO WG. 1 Motion Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group commence work on the IFF Foundation Ontology version 1.0 [July 20, 2001] posted at http://suo.ieee.org/Kent-IFF.pdf, with the intent of developing it into the final SUO document? Declared Passed on 2001-08-31 YES = 18 NO = 6 ABSTAIN = 9 2  Motion Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group commence work on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) version 1.52 [April 25, 2003] posted at: <http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SUO/Merge.txt?rev=1.49&content-type=text/plain> (containing the ontology) and <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/FormalSUOdraft.rtf> (containing the text of the formal standards proposal) with the intent of developing it into a final SUO document. There is further intent to collaborate with the SUO group working on a joint library of modules project. Declared Passed on 2003-06-14 Eligible Voters: 79 Acknowledgements: 71 Ballots Cast: 53 Abstain: 6 No: 16 Yes: 31 3 Motion  Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO) commence work on a project to develop a standard for ontology specification and registration, according to the following guidelines: The standard shall be based on the contributions of three SUO candidate projects: IFF, OpenCyc, and SUMO. The standard shall specify an ontology registry, such as the metadata registries specified by ISO/IEC IS 11179-3, but with extensions that are required to define ontologies and to relate them to one another. The ontology registry shall be organized as a collection of modules, related in a generalization/specialization hierarchy. Each module shall consist of a theory together with documentation and other metadata. The theory shall consist of axioms and definitions stated in a logic-based language, such as those in the Common Logic (CL) framework. The standard shall include the specification of a methodology for testing the theory part of any module for consistency, relating theories to one another in the generalization/specialization hierarchy, and combining two or more theories to derive a new theory that is larger and more specialized than the theories from which it was derived. Eligible Voters: 79 Acknowledgements: 71 Ballots Cast: 53 Abstain: 2 No: 5 Yes: 46 Declared passed on 2003-06-14 4 Motion The Standard Upper Ontology group approves the objective and work programme set out below and encourages its members to participate in the programme, developing and reviewing the programme deliverables. Objective To develop a 4 dimensional ontology and include it as a component within the Information Flow Framework. Work Programme Develop an ontology based on the 4-dimensional paradigm. Initial material to act as a start point is contained in ISO/FDIS 15926-2. http://www.tc184-sc4.org/wg3ndocs/wg3n1328/lifecycle_integration_schema.html The approach will be to develop the ontology as reusable components, where appropriate. Make the 4-Dimensional Ontology available as components within the Information Flow Framework and develop mappings to other ontologies within the framework. The motion was formally moved on 20th September 2003. The motion was declared passed on 11th October 2003 with the following votes cast. YES: 40 NO: 6 ABSTAIN: 5 Acknowledge (but no vote): 11 No Response: 17 Total Number of Voting Members: 79 5 Motion The Standard Upper Ontology group approves the objective and work programme set out below and encourages its members to participate in the programme, developing and reviewing the programme deliverables. Objective To develop a methodology for the development of standards deliverables within the Standard Upper Ontology Workgroup. Work Programme Establish a methodology for developing and improving SUO standards deliverables including establishing levels of deliverable, approvals required to achieve a level, and an issue raising and resolution process. Initial material to indicate the intent is attached. The motion was formally moved on 20th September 2003. The motion was declared passed on 11th October 2003 with the following votes cast. YES: 47 NO: 0 ABSTAIN: 5 Acknowledge (but no vote): 11 No Response: 17 Total Number of Voting Members: 79 6 Motion The IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group resolves to commence work on the Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) of the WebKB-2 knowledge server (www.webkb.org). Number of SUO voting members: 70 Required YES votes to pass motion: 36 Ballot Results YES: 41 No: 4 ABSTAIN: 6 Acknowledge (but no vote): 8 No Response: 11 Chair chose not to vote 1 Motion Passes.

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