Re: SUO: Lists & Archives Now Working
At 9:40 AM -0500 1/12/2000, Jon Awbrey wrote:
>Yes, I can tell that you are confused, the evidence being that,
>by your own criterion, you have inadvertently posted your bill --
>or is it bull? -- and I mean that in the infallibly good sense --
>the wrong list.
Why? This is a SUO management issue, therefore I posted it to the
main SUO list, according to Jim's suggestions.
At 11:49 PM +1100 1/12/2000, Horn, Graham wrote:
> . Let's have a go at breaking things down into roughly
>conceptually independent groups. Here's my suggestion.
>1. Administration, voting, sponsorship, funding, etc. issues(at present
>this mainly pertains to issues such as this e-mail);
>2. SUO scope, purpose, applications (these are currently listed under
>"Purpose"), etc. (at present this is relatively stable);
>3. SUO content - the end product (this should soon be the major growth
>area);
>4. SUO-KIF - the "logical" type of ontological presentation (this has
>involved a fair degree of dialogue to date, and is fairly advanced, thanks
>to the work of people like David Whitten);
>5. SUO-CE- the "less technical feeling" type of ontological
>presentation (this has also involved a fair degree of dialogue to date, but
>is less advanced than SUO-KIF),
>6. SUO logic -ensuring that the SUO is rigorous (this has involved
>perhaps the most dialogue, and for a long time, and is the keystone for the
>integrity of the SUO),
>7. Miscellaneous, eg.
>- What is ontology
>- History of ontology
>- Poetry and ontology
>- Ontological aspects of US elections
>- and so on...
I am reasonably happy with the current choice, which (roughly)
collapses your groups 1, 2, 3 and possibly 6 into the main SUO list.
The reason why these groups should go together is that all SUO
members would be probably interested to all these issues. I have some
reservations concerning discussions on applications and *broad*
discussions about logic (like the discussion about sorted logics),
that maybe could go to the KIF mailing list. BTW, also discussions
concerning ontology representation languages in general (different
from KIF) should go to the KIF mailing list.
In sum, I am happy with the current proposal, with the following
clarifications:
SUO: Administration, scope&purpose, and content issues
SUO-KIF: Issues related to SUO formalization by means of logic-based
representation languages
SUO-CE: Controlled English as a lanaguage for SUO
Ontology: Other ontology-related issues.
-- Nicola
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