SUO: Updated SUMO??
Ian,
Please allow me to play the devil's advocate here.
If the SUMO vote stands (which I am on record as believing it will),
that means you can no longer make changes on your own to the document. You
can post proposed changes (if you have some consensus), but you need to
clearly distinguish between the version approved by the group and any
proposed later revisions.
You'll also need to distinguish between your role as a major
contributor and your possible role as the Technical Editor. The Technical
Editor must follow the consensus of the active participants. As
contributor, you can propose whatever you'd like and fight for it, but you
can't decide to put something in unless you have some degree of consensus.
I'm sure you'll know it if people objects to any changes.
Jim Schoening
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Niles [mailto:iniles@teknowledge.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:28 PM
To: Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail)
Subject: SUO: SUMO Announcements
Hi All,
I'd like to announce two things:
1. New version of SUMO. I've loaded version 1.17 of SUMO into the browser.
The most significant differences between this version and the last one that
was loaded into the browser (1.15) are an enriched hierarchy of processes
(based on Beth Levin's work), an attempt to include some aspects of speech
acts theory (under the node 'Communication'), and a revision of the naming
scheme which we discussed a few weeks back (on the new scheme hyphens and
vacuous prepositions have been eliminated). Of course, all of these
additions and revisions are subject to change based on the group's
assessment of them, so please let me know if you disagree with anything that
I've done here. As always, the ontology browser and all versions of the
SUMO source files can be accessed at:
http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/index.html
2. New version of SUMO documentation. We've reworked the overview of SUMO
that's available at http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/arch.html.
We've reorganized sections, added informal descriptions, added many new
terms, and hyperlinked all SUMO terms. We hope this will continue to
function as a useful guide to the distinctions and content embodied in the
ontology. Let me know if you have any suggestions about how to improve this
document.
-Ian