Re: Developing a standard for an ontology registry/repository

[paola.dimaio@gmail.com]

Hi Leo

yes I was there, I enjoyed the event very much, especially meeting you lot and and looking at people in the eye, even just briefly

For the record, I did not positively join the OOR list on the wiki because despite initiating and/contributing to some related discussions, too many questions were unanswered and things not cleared nor e discussed, and certainly not satisfactorily for me.

Starting from the IPR policy, to the veto to discuss OOR issues on the public Ontolog list, to  a lot of other things that seem confused and lack rationale and even transparency.

But I am still interested in its evolution, and maybe will get back to it later when things take shape :-)

In the meantime i ll continue to seek rationale where I find it.....

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@mitre.org> wrote:

Folks,

As John mentioned early on in his message, there is an Open Ontology Repository effort at Ontolog, which is an open community of practice. You might join and post to the ontolog OOR list.

An open ontology repository was the theme of the Ontology Summit, co-sponsored by NIST and Ontolog and others this past April 27-28, 2008. I believe John and Paola participated.

See the OOR page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OpenOntologyRepository.

Also see the Ontology summit 2008 page: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2008/FaceToFaceAgenda#nid1BLS.

For info about Ontolog (and the top page), see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl.

Thanks,
Leo

_____________________________________________
Dr. Leo Obrst       The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics
lobrst@mitre.org    Information Discovery & Understanding, Command and Control Center
Voice: 703-983-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S H305
Fax: 703-983-1379   McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG [mailto:standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG] On Behalf Of John F. Sowa
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 12:44 PM
To: Jack Ring
Cc: paola.dimaio@gmail.com; standard-upper-ontology@IEEE.ORG
Subject: Re: Developing a standard for an ontology registry/repository

Jack,

To a certain extent, that's true:

 > The project management point of view is useful for small,
 > relatively static situations but the holistic system point
 > of view is essential for situations high in extent, variety
 > and ambiguity.
 >
 > Aren't we faced with the latter?

But various people involved with these ontology projects have
been debating, analyzing, building, examining, and studying
ontologies, applications of ontologies, and requirements for
sharing and reusing them for over 20 years.

The SUO project and mailing list was started in 2000, and
there seems to be a consensus that a registry/repository
system would be a useful product.  We have some vague
proposals along those lines, and the time seems ripe for
developing them further.

John

-- 
Paola Di Maio 
**********************************

Forthcoming

i-Semantics 2009, 2 - 4 September 2009, Graz, Austria. www.i-semantics.tugraz.at

SEMAPRO 2009, Malta
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/RegistrationSEMAPRO09.html