SUO: Draft Motion on OpenCyc
SUO WG,
The following is a draft ballot question on the OpenCyc motion.
This is posted for discussion and wordsmithing, but not yet for a vote.
PLEASE DON'T VOTE YET.
Draft Ballot Question: "Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper
Ontology Working Group commence work on the OpenCyc ontology and CycL
language as initially set forth in the following (two-part) starter
document: a) OpenCyc Ontology at
http://www.cyc.com/SUO/opencyc-ontology.txt; b) OpenCyc KB at
http://www.cyc.com/SUO/minimal-cyc-kb.txt, which includes CycL.
For background purposes, the original motion is found below.
The changes we should focus on are those that will impact your
vote.
Jim Schoening
Chair, SUO WG
--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John De Oliveira <johnd@cyc.com>
To: jim.s3@juno.com
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:48:58 -0600
Subject: SUO request for vote
Jim,
I would like to resubmit the OpenCyc ontology and the CycL
language to be voted on as a starter document. There had been a concern
about including CycML in the submission, and I am no longer including
that in the proposal. Also, there was concern about determining the
boundaries of an OpenCyc ontology. For example, there were questions as
to whether the inference engine was part of the submission. It was not,
and it still is not. A text-only version of the OpenCyc ontology can be
found at (and downloaded from):
http://www.cyc.com/SUO/opencyc-ontology.txt. It is unwieldy to read in
this form, but it should provide clear boundaries for what is and what is
not part of the ontology. This is the proposed submission to serve as a
draft base document. A description of a minimal OpenCyc KB can be found
at: http://www.cyc.com/SUO/minimal-cyc-kb.txt. This second document also
contains a BNF grammar for CycL. The information in the second document
is slightly dated, but it can be worked on if a vote passes. An easier
way to browse the OpenCyc ontology is by downloading OpenCyc
http://www.opencyc.org) or by using one of the public OpenCyc servers
(http://www.opencyc.org/public_servers).
Please feel free to submit to the group on my behalf some proposed
language for the vote. It should describe the submission as including the
OpenCyc ontology and the CycL language but not CycML, nor the OpenCyc
Knowledge Server, nor the OpenCyc inference engine.
Sincerely,
John De Oliveira
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