RE: SUO: RE: RE: Program wants to work with SUO documents
Dear John,
I think the distinction you are missing is one between a project
that is CREATING a standard upper ontology, and a project that
is USING a standard upper ontology.
Clearly the former must conform to your requirements. But BIKE is
of the latter persuasion. The value to us is feedback from how our
work stands up to the heat of battle :-)
Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bateman [mailto:bateman@uni-bremen.de]
> Sent: 04 March 2004 10:38
> To: 'jim.s3@juno.com'; standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org;
> SUO-STATUS@ieee.org
> Cc: Tran, Lisa RDECOM CERDEC IBCD
> Subject: Re: SUO: RE: RE: Program wants to work with SUO documents
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> > I did not forget about the BIKE briefing, however, I was not
> > able to get an approval to send out a briefing on BIKE at this time.
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> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> There have been some serious issues raised concerning this involvement
> of SUO on the SUO list; as far as I can tell (unless my email is
> deluding me)
> these remain unaddressed (in fact, completely ignored).
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> I take Stefano Borgo's proposal
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> > In my view, we should require that a proposed project
> satisfies at least the followings
> > - the project must be totally open
> > - the project must be of clear general interest
> > - the project must have a clear relevance for the SUO initiative
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> to be an absolute sine qua non for involvements of
> an international effort for a "standard" "upper" anything.
> I take it that the non-reaction from the SUO list (apart
> from running after the latest suggestion to again write
> minipapers saying how excellent your individual ontologies
> are) is a clear indication that this is *not* considered
> an issue.
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> Is this a reasonable interpretation?
> John Bateman.
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