Re: SUO: OpenCyc as SUO starter document
Jim,
Where can we go to peruse this KB / ontology so as to evaluate its
suitability? According to the OpenCyc SourceForge project pages, "This
Project Has Not Released Any Files."
How much can we discuss (healthily) the content in question given only a
future release date and advertising blurb-like statements on the Web site?
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 14:02 2002-02-28, Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I wrote:
>SUO,
>
> John DeOliveira of Cycorp, with support from his management,
> would like to explore the proposal of OpenCyc as a starter/base document
> for SUO. This is not yet a motion, but he has informed me of his
> intension to make such a motion within a month, when the beta version of
> OpenCyc is released.
>
> Let's give this some healthy discussion.
>
>Jim Schoening
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John DeOliveira [mailto:johnd@cyc.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:20 PM
>To: James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil
>Cc: miraglia@cyc.com
>Subject: Re: OpenCyc and IEEE
>
>
>
>Jim,
>
>Cycorp would be very interested in OpenCyc being developed as an IEEE
>standard. I have discussed this with Doug Lenat, who has charged me with
>coordinating the effort for Cycorp (from a non-technical standpoint); and
>I have a volunteer for Technical Editor in the person of Pierluigi
>Miraglia, one of Cycorp's ontological engineers. What Pierluigi actually
>said was that he could serve as the technical liaison and be involved in
>any editing activities, as he expects the editing may require the
>involvement of multiple people.
>
>As for OpenCyc itself, a beta version will be available in March and we
>have every expectation that version 1.0 will be out in July.
>
>-----------------snipped (with John's OK---------------------
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>John De Oliveira
>OpenCyc Product Manager
>Cycorp, Inc.
>512-342-4012
>johnd@cyc.com
>http://www.cyc.com
>http://www.opencyc.org