Re: SUO: Motion by John DeOlivera on OpenCyc Started Document
At 21:00 2002-05-22 -0400, jim.s3@juno.com wrote:
>
> SUO WG,
>
> The following motion by John DeOliver is posted for review and
> initial discussions. Please don't cast any votes until the ballot
> question is posted, after which there will be at least 2-weeks to further
> discuss and cast ballots.
>
> Based on initial discussions, I will draft and post a draft
> ballot quesiton. After we come to consensus on the ballot question, it
> will be formally released and the voting period started.
>
> Jim Schoening
> Chair, SUO WG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John DeOliveira [mailto:johnd@cyc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:01 PM
> To: james.schoening@us.army.mil
> Subject: proposal for SUO
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I propose that the OpenCyc Ontology be accepted as a starter document for
> the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group, because it
> fulfills
> the purpose of the project as defined at
> http://suo.ieee.org/scopeAndPurpose.html.
>
> Additionally, I propose that CycL be accepted in the starter document as
> a
> standard language for the representation of knowledge using the OpenCyc
> Ontology and that CycML be accepted in the starter document as a standard
> for serializing knowledge based on the OpenCyc Ontology.
>
> OpenCyc is suitable for automated logical inference to support
> knowledge-based reasoning applications, including e-commerce and other
> applications enabled by natural language understanding.
>
> It also supports interoperability among software applications. It is
> extensible, provides a common vocabulary, and is suitable for mapping
> to/from other ontologies.
>
> The OpenCyc Ontology is currently a beta release, and it will be
> undergoing
> changes in the coming months. Documentation pertaining to the OpenCyc
> ontology (to the extent that it currently exists) can be found at the
> following links:
>
> The DAML version of OpenCyc v0.6b
> http://www.cyc.com/2002/04/08/cyc.daml
>
> The HyperDAML version of OpenCyc v0.6b
> http://www.daml.org/cgi-bin/hyperdaml?http://www.cyc.com/2002/04/08/cyc.d
> aml
>
> OpenCyc Selected Vocabulary v0.6b
> (not the entire Upper Ontology; organized by "subject clumps", which are
> not part of the ontology)
> http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/vocab/vocab-toc.html
>
> The Syntax of CycL
> http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/ref/cycl-syntax.html
>
> The latest schema for CycML
> http://opencyc.sourceforge.net/cycml.xsd
>
> If you have any questions or need further clarification on any of this,
> please contact me. Thank you.
>
> Sincerely,
> John De Oliveira
> Project Manager, OpenCyc.org
Jim Schoening and John De Oliveria-
I've gone to several of the links above. While URLs provide access to information, they don't provide a "starter document" per se because its not clear what is the document. For example, the OpenCyc Selected Vocabulary might be organized very nicely and very useful, but from a standards point of view its not a "document".
John, I'm guessing that you'll be able to package the bundle into a single, say, PDF file right? I know the text versions are more useful for accessing and, possibly, editing, but the PDF version clarifies the boundaries of the bundle.
Of course, I believe that SUO should evolve to several standards (Type 1: a registry for registering entries of, say, OpenCyc, SUMO, etc; Type 2: a technique for mapping one set of entries to another; Type 3: a list of attributes that are necessary for describing the entries) and the OpenCyc work would be (assuming approval by the WG) registered as many entries in the registry.
But for now, I'd like to understand the boundaries of the potential starter document "bundle".
-FF
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