SUO: RE: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Draft Ballot Question
Dear Colleagues,
A small point, but could I ask that motions start:
The IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group resolves to ...
rather than:
Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group ...
After the fact this would read much better in a list of resolutions
that would be resolutions rather than questions.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim.s3@juno.com [mailto:jim.s3@juno.com]
> Sent: 27 January 2004 22:00
> To: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org
> Subject: SUO: Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) Draft Ballot Question
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> SUO,
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> The following draft ballot question is posted for review
> and comment. Please don't vote yet.
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> Jim Schoening
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> Ballot Question:
>
> "Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
> commence work on the Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) of the WebKB-2
> knowledge server (www.webkb.org)."
>
> Background:
>
> The features and rationales of WebKB-2 and its MSO have been
> previously
> introduced: http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031202Schoening.html
> (plus subsequent messages stored in the same directory).
>
> In short, each object - a category (type or individual), a
> link between
> categories, or a more complex statement (graph) - has an associated
> source (user and/or document), and a Web user can
> 1) query, re-use and add new categories, links or graphs,
> 2) remove those she have created (and mainly only those),
> 3) "correct other graphs" (represent alternative beliefs) by using
> relations such as pm#corrective_specialization.
> Knowledge additions being centralized and incremental, the objects
> can be highly interconnected (hence, retrievable and re-usable) and
> each detected inconsistency or redundancy is solved by its
> author, thus
> guiding her to write more precise and (re-)usable knowledge.
> However, the users can (and are advised to) store and document
> their knowledge within Web files and ask WebKB-2 to parse these files
> (until no error is detected and the knowledge is commited in the KB).
>
> The MSO of WebKB-2 is currently mainly composed of an extension and
> correction of the noun-related part of WordNet 1.7 plus some
> top-level
> ontologies (mainly, extensions of those of John Sowa in his books of
> 1984 and 2000, DOLCE, OWL and various categories from other sources):
> details are accessible from http://www.webkb.org/doc/papers/iccs03/
>
> The integration of the SUMO is in progress. The 4D ontology named
> "Lifecycle integration Schema" is (and will remain) loosely
> integrated.
> This ontology, some general statements, and a few small
> domain ontologies
> are listed as example files in http://www.webkb.org/kb/
> A 4-level indented list of the upper part of the resulting taxonomy
> can by accessed via
> http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?categ=pm%23thing&recu
rsLink=%3E&depth=3&hyperlinks
If the link encodings is a problem, add &longLinkNames at the end of
the URL or see http://www.webkb.org/doc/onSUOlist/m031216phmartin.html
An indented list of the relation types can be accessed via
http://www.webkb.org/bin/categSearch.cgi?categ=pm%23elation&recursLink=%3E&hyperlinks
Filtering on a particular source can be done, e.g. enter sumo#* in the
Category Search interface: http://www.webkb.org/interface/categSearch.html
(in the displayed taxonomies, dots replace categories not from the SUMO).
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