Re: Brainstorming Results: Leaders needed
I volunteer to lead the discussion on D4.
James Nerney
> D4. All postings to the Ontology list-server should be stated in the
> terms of general systems.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13433.html
On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC wrote:
> All,
>
> Leaders are now needed. Below are the results of the
> brainstorming session, so we now need volunteers to lead some or
> all of
> these efforts. (If you would like to just participate, please wait for
> the leaders to call for help, and please hold off on discussing these
> topics until the leaders kick them off.)
>
> Please respond with any item you are willing to lead, or help
> lead. New topics are still welcome.
>
> We also need volunteers for the following:
>
> Webmaster
>
> Coordinator of formal discussion topics
>
> Chair (I suggest we postpone electing a Chair until we
> see what activities get rolling.)
>
> Brainstorming Results
>
> Projects:
>
> P1. Prepare and present something at spring Ontology Summit at NIST.
>
> P2. Co-sponsor a conference or meeting.
>
> P3. How about a prototype test or two? One test would [be to]
> design an
> ontology to ... See
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html
>
> P4. How about a technology-free upper ontology.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html
>
> P5. How about choosing a way of computing the semantic distance
> between
> any two ontologies and identifying the features of each that cause the
> distance(s). http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html
>
> P6. Technology/Culture-driven "Thirdness" Practice
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13435.html
>
> P7. Set up an online testbed.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13438.html
>
> P8. Evalute ontologies built automatically by ontology learning
> systems
> or mapping/ integrating tools.
>
> Discussion Topics:
>
> D1. Separate computer science ontology from philosophical ontology.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13436.html
>
> D2. Advantages/inconvenients of two knowledge/ontology sharing
> methods:
> - independently authoring and publishing (small) ontologies
> - allowing the collaborative update of a (large) ontology
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html
>
> D3. Lexical guidelines for naming concepts and relations?
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html
>
> D4. All postings to the Ontology list-server should be stated in the
> terms of general systems.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13433.html
>
> D5. Start from what is most fundamental to the SUO: What is its
> subject
> matter: the world of things; the universe of concepts; or the
> domain of
> master terms ? If it is the real world, then what is its basic
> features
> and contours or which ways are its things?
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13437.html
>
> D6. What are the key categories and meanings of reality, its standard
> ontology, and how should they be represented by semantic
> technology and
> knowledge systems?
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13437.html
>
> D7. What languages are better than OWL for developing ontologies, and
> what are their pros and cons?
>
> D8. Essence and need to have standard ontologies and ways of creating
> flexible ontologies for a flexible changing micro world.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13439.html
>
> D9. Determine what enables current systems to interoperate and what
> more
> would be useful. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/
> msg13441.html
> and http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13442.html and
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13443.html
>
> Adminstrative:
>
> A1. Update the http://suo.ieee.org web site (Webmaster or web team
> needed.)
>
> A2. Use a semantic wiki in addition to the mailing list
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html
>
>
> Please post any offers to lead, or help lead, any of the above
> topics.
>
> Jim Schoening