SUO: Almost-Final Ballot Questions
SUO Working Group,
1. This is not yet the actual ballot, so please don't vote yet.
2. Below are the latest versions of the motions by Adam Pease and John
Sowa.
3. If you have additional suggested changes that will impact your vote,
please submit them to the list or to Adam or John.
4. If both motions are ready about the same time, I will include them in
a single email ballot, but you'll vote on each independently.
5. As stated previously, each motion will pass if YES-votes > No-votes.
ABSTAINs are recorded but not factored into whether the motion passes.
6. The ballot, when released, will be open for 14 days.
7. The ballots will be posted to this list and also mailed directly to
all voting members.
Jim Schoening
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Ballot Question #1 (Latest Draft from Adam Pease):
"Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
commence work on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) version 1.51
[April 11, 2003] posted at:
http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SUO/Merge.t
xt?rev=1.49&content-type=text/plain with the intent of developing it into
a final SUO document."
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Ballot Question #2 (Latest Draft from John Sowa):
"Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology
Working Group commence work on a project to develop
a standard based on three starting candidates,
IFF, OpenCyc, and SUMO, and continuing as follows:
(1) The development process shall include a
collaboration of members of all three groups
and other SUO participants to determine how each
of the three starting candidates can complement
and support the contributions of the others.
(2) The results shall include a library of modules
derived from OpenCyc, SUMO, and/or other sources.
Each module shall consist of closely related
axioms and definitions for some aspect of a
standard upper ontology.
(3) The standard shall include the specification
of a methodology for testing the modules for
consistency, relating them to one another in
a generalization/specialization hierarchy,
and combining two or more modules to derive a
new module that is larger and more specialized
than the modules from which it was derived."
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