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''The gradually-growing form of ChristopherSpottiswoode's'' ... {nid 2Z28}
''The gradually-growing form of ChristopherSpottiswoode's'' ... {nid 2Z5Y}

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= Ontology Chemistry - a grand challenge project proposition {nid 2Z29} =
= Ontology Chemistry - a grand challenge project proposition {nid 2Z5Z} =

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* this is a conversation that started with posts on [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00088.html What's "Ontology Chemistry"?], [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00122.html Some Grand Challenge proposal ironies] and [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00135.html Ontology Chemistry - foundation and method]. Further discussion under those headings will be invited in due course, with reference to the more concise exposition gradually developing on this page. {nid 2Z2A}
* this is a conversation that started with posts on [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00088.html What's "Ontology Chemistry"?], [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00122.html Some Grand Challenge proposal ironies] and [http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00135.html Ontology Chemistry - foundation and method]. Further discussion under those headings will be invited in due course, with reference to the more concise exposition gradually developing on this page. {nid 2Z60}

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The Ontology Chemistry project is a suggestion for OntologySummit2012. {nid 2Z2B}
The Ontology Chemistry project is a suggestion for OntologySummit2012. {nid 2Z61}

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As set out on 2011_10_18 at on http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit/Suggestions, the suggested theme or topic is: {nid 2Z2C}
As set out on 2011_10_18 at on http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit/Suggestions, the suggested theme or topic is: {nid 2Z62}

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* To start bootstrapping a new ecosystem built using a new ontology-based paradigm for Internet-based Information System architecting, engineering and delivery. {nid 2Z2D}
* To start bootstrapping a new ecosystem built using a new ontology-based paradigm for Internet-based Information System architecting, engineering and delivery. {nid 2Z63}

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The suggested process is: {nid 2Z2E}
The suggested process is: {nid 2Z64}

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* To implement that bootstrap and connect it to the open market, the Ontolog Community might consider adopting, refining, concisely specifying and issuing under its own banner what it might choose to label ''The Grand Challenge of Ontology Chemistry''. Ontology Summit 2012 might be an excellent occasion for finalizing and issuing the Challenge. {nid 2Z2F}
* To implement that bootstrap and connect it to the open market, the Ontolog Community might consider adopting, refining, concisely specifying and issuing under its own banner what it might choose to label ''The Grand Challenge of Ontology Chemistry''. Ontology Summit 2012 might be an excellent occasion for finalizing and issuing the Challenge. {nid 2Z65}

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The suggested format is: {nid 2Z2G}
The suggested format is: {nid 2Z66}

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* ChristopherSpottiswoode is starting a series of posts to the Ontolog Forum addressing some of the many aspects of the proposal. He hopes that Community critique and involvement will lead firstly to more relevant and adequate coverage of the issues, and in due course to the organization and execution of the Challenge. {nid 2Z2H}
* ChristopherSpottiswoode is starting a series of posts to the Ontolog Forum addressing some of the many aspects of the proposal. He hopes that Community critique and involvement will lead firstly to more relevant and adequate coverage of the issues, and in due course to the organization and execution of the Challenge. {nid 2Z67}

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The suggested kind of people we should engage: {nid 2Z2I}
The suggested kind of people we should engage: {nid 2Z68}

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* We would need an organization to mount and run the Challenge. As background, study the excellent presentation for Ontology Summit 2011 (see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2011_03_24) by the X PRIZE Foundation's Christopher Frangione: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2011/2011-03-24_Grand-Challenges/Revolution-Through-Competition_X-PRIZE_--EileenBartholomew-ChristopherFrangione_20110324.pptx. {nid 2Z2J}
* We would need an organization to mount and run the Challenge. As background, study the excellent presentation for Ontology Summit 2011 (see http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2011_03_24) by the X PRIZE Foundation's Christopher Frangione: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2011/2011-03-24_Grand-Challenges/Revolution-Through-Competition_X-PRIZE_--EileenBartholomew-ChristopherFrangione_20110324.pptx. {nid 2Z69}

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= Preamble {nid 2Z2K} =
= Preamble {nid 2Z6A} =

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The full project whose next steps are seriously presented here as a Grand Challenge candidate is a proposition of enormous intended impact. But a first glance may well leave it seeming mind-boggling in its ambition, its pretentiousness, its sheer folly. {nid 2Z2L}
The full project whose next steps are seriously presented here as a Grand Challenge candidate is a proposition of enormous intended impact. But a first glance may well leave it seeming mind-boggling in its ambition, its pretentiousness, its sheer folly. {nid 2Z6B}

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A little further knowledge of it may (I imagine) leave you in a more seriously worried so completely dismissive state of mind: "It's all far too totalitarian for my liking!" {nid 2Z2M}
A little further knowledge of it may (I imagine) leave you in a more seriously worried so completely dismissive state of mind: "It's all far too totalitarian for my liking!" {nid 2Z6C}

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So one major objective in these pages is to convince you that the project is feasible, with the envisaged Ontolog Community-managed steps even within a practical Grand Challenge timeframe. {nid 2Z2N}
So one major objective in these pages is to convince you that the project is feasible, with the envisaged Ontolog Community-managed steps even within a practical Grand Challenge timeframe. {nid 2Z6D}

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At the same time I shall try to convey to what extent both the project's proposed ''modus operandi'' and its targeted outcome should also embody, and even strongly reinforce and augment, the checks and balances civilization has evolved against the rightly-feared human tendencies partly confessed-to above. {nid 2Z2O}
At the same time I shall try to convey to what extent both the project's proposed ''modus operandi'' and its targeted outcome should also embody, and even strongly reinforce and augment, the checks and balances civilization has evolved against the rightly-feared human tendencies partly confessed-to above. {nid 2Z6E}

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Thus there is a paradoxically-compatible combination of new paradigm with ancient wisdom, of revolution and evolution, of hope and realism, of enthusiasm and caution, that is captured in the long-standing slogan for the full project: '''"Ride The Mainstream!"''' {nid 2Z2P}
Thus there is a paradoxically-compatible combination of new paradigm with ancient wisdom, of revolution and evolution, of hope and realism, of enthusiasm and caution, that is captured in the long-standing slogan for the full project: '''"Ride The Mainstream!"''' {nid 2Z6F}

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= A 3-step project as starting-point for Ontolog Forum discussion at this stage {nid 2Z2Q} =
= A 3-step project as starting-point for Ontolog Forum discussion at this stage {nid 2Z6G} =

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'''Step 1:''' The Ontolog Community thrashes out the issues as set out here (on the wiki for continual updating), maybe with one or more F2F workshops, and decides whether to proceed with the evolving plan. (Timing: by end 2011?) Then if so: {nid 2Z2R}
'''Step 1:''' The Ontolog Community thrashes out the issues as set out here (on the wiki for continual updating), maybe with one or more F2F workshops, and decides whether to proceed with the evolving plan. (Timing: by end 2011?) Then if so: {nid 2Z6H}

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'''Step 2:''' An Ontolog Community-derived team further defines and organizes, locates funds (leveraging the USPs such as those still only introduced at http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00160.html#nid044, with soundbites and elevator pitches still to be gathered on this wiki), then mounts, launches and executes the Grand Challenge. (Launch or some earlier clear stage at Ontology Summit 2012?) {nid 2Z2S}
'''Step 2:''' An Ontolog Community-derived team further defines and organizes, locates funds (leveraging the USPs such as those still only introduced at http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00160.html#nid044, with soundbites and elevator pitches still to be gathered on this wiki), then mounts, launches and executes the Grand Challenge. (Timing: launch or some earlier clear stage at Ontology Summit 2012?) {nid 2Z6I}

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The outcome would be a starter "Application Operating System" (AOS) able to function as qualitatively-better hosting platform or environment for carefully-chosen initial kinds of Internet-based application. Those kinds will include the further diversification and evolution of the AOS itself, notably in its own architecture-canonical collaborative or social-network mode. A short timeframe may be envisaged, thanks to the Challenge product / AOS boot product's fully architecture-canonical ontology-based design. (Timing: 1 further year, with review at Ontology Summit 2013?) {nid 2Z2T}
The outcome would be a starter "Application Operating System" (AOS) able to function as qualitatively-better hosting platform or environment for carefully-chosen initial kinds of Internet-based application. Those kinds will include the further diversification and evolution of the AOS itself, notably in its own architecture-canonical collaborative or social-network mode. A short timeframe may be envisaged, thanks to the Challenge product / AOS boot product's fully architecture-canonical ontology-based design. (Timing: 1 further year, with review at Ontology Summit 2013?) {nid 2Z6J}

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This step is the "tightly circumscribed project" introduced at the beginning of http://TheMainstream.info, the home page of a rather old and very incomplete website on the project involved here. {nid 2Z2U}
This Step 2 is the "tightly circumscribed project" introduced at the beginning of http://TheMainstream.info, the home page of a rather old and very incomplete website on the project involved here. {nid 2Z6K}

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'''Step 3:''' The simpler and more natural way of working within the new ecosystem rapidly attracts ever more users. They bootstrap the ever fuller new ecosystem into ever more application domains, and with ever more extensive creation and evolution of compatible new techniques. {nid 2Z2V}
'''Step 3:''' The simpler and more natural way of working within the new ecosystem rapidly attracts ever more users. They bootstrap the ever fuller new ecosystem into ever more application domains, and with ever more extensive creation and evolution of compatible new techniques. {nid 2Z6L}

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The evolving and burgeoning ecosystem now well established in the Internet wild continues as a fully democratic and self-managed universal marketplace, now targeting ''all'' Internet-based applications. (Timing: into the future, with ever more variations of the AOS, always interoperable.) {nid 2Z2W}
The evolving and burgeoning ecosystem now well established in the Internet wild continues as a fully democratic and self-managed universal marketplace, now targeting ''all'' Internet-based applications. (Timing: into the future, with ever more variations of the AOS, always interoperable.) {nid 2Z6M}

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= An outline of the AOS, its requirements, and resulting ecosystem {nid 2Z2X} =
= An outline of the AOS, its requirements, and resulting ecosystem {nid 2Z6N} =

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The OntChem AOS or Application Operating System will in due course largely supersede (that being the intention and expectation) the web browser, the email or other social networking client, more broadly the opening user interface of any Internet-connected device, the 'main procedure' of conventional programming and eventually the operating system shell. {nid 2Z2Y}
The OntChem AOS or Application Operating System will in due course largely supersede (that being the intention and expectation) the web browser, the email or other social networking client, more broadly the opening user interface of any Internet-connected device, the 'main procedure' of conventional programming and eventually the operating system shell. {nid 2Z6O}

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The "Boot" or "Seed" AOS, the target product of Step 2 above, will be limited to those aspects required for its own further collaborative evolution and bootstrapping of the wider market. {nid 2Z2Z}
The "Boot" or "Seed" AOS, the target product of Step 2 above, could be limited to those aspects required for its own further collaborative evolution and bootstrapping of the wider market. {nid 2Z6P}

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The AOS is a generic agent, accepting inputs, processing them against the data at its disposal, then deriving and emitting outputs. There is no necessary sequence or synchronicity of those steps, but matters such as synchronization and consistency are basic functions of the AOS. {nid 2Z30}
The AOS is a generic agent, accepting inputs, processing them against the data at its disposal, then deriving and emitting outputs. There is no necessary sequence or synchronicity of those steps, but managing synchronization is a basic function of the AOS. {nid 2Z6Q}

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The AOS is an "agent" because it acts on behalf of and interacting with other agents, with human beings of course prime sources of the driving inputs and prime targets of the outputs. {nid 2Z31}
The AOS is an "agent" because it acts on behalf of and interacting with other agents, with human beings of course prime sources of the driving inputs and prime targets of the outputs. {nid 2Z6R}

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But the AOS has functionality far beyond those simple agent roles. Implicit in the mention of the "data at its disposal" it is also a DBMS, and more specifically a Factbase manager. {nid 2Z32}
But the AOS has functionality far beyond those simple agent roles. Implicit in the mention of the "data at its disposal" it is also a DBMS, and more specifically a Factbase manager. The maintenance of data consistency is another basic AOS function, with many implications such as user dialog and UI management, both local and remote. {nid 2Z6S}

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And all that data, those facts, are structured as ontologies and their extensions, with the ontologies themselves, and their management, defined in terms of reflective ontologies. {nid 2Z33}
All that data, those facts, are structured as ontologies and their extensions, with the ontologies themselves, and their management, defined in terms of reflective ontologies. {nid 2Z6T}

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More details will be added once further introduction has been added as posts to the Ontolog Forum. {nid 2Z34}
More details will be added once further introduction has been added as posts to the Ontolog Forum. {nid 2Z6U}

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= A note on the organization of further information on the subject here on the Ontolog wiki {nid 2Z35} =
= A note on the organization of further information on the subject here on the Ontolog wiki {nid 2Z6V} =

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This page (and future pages below it) will be reserved for hopefully concise specifications of the AOS and the OntChem architecture with a view to the mooted Grand Challenge. {nid 2Z36}
This page (and future pages below it) will be reserved for hopefully concise specifications of the AOS and the OntChem architecture with a view to the mooted Grand Challenge. {nid 2Z6W}

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Each time there is a significant change to this page there will be a post to the Forum introducing it, perhaps with sometimes extensive introductory material which would otherwise clutter up the specifications here. {nid 2Z37}
Each time there is a significant change to this page there will be a post to the Forum introducing it, perhaps with sometimes extensive introductory material which would otherwise clutter up the specifications here. {nid 2Z6X}

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Each of the first few (at least) of those Forum posts will be in one of the 3 threads whose opening posts were linked to at the top of this page. Each thread indicates a theme that will continually recur as the whole picture is sketched, and will hopefully help focus discussion in the thread on constructive expansion and refinement of the specifications on and below this page. {nid 2Z38}
Each of the first few (at least) of those Forum posts will be in one of the 3 threads whose opening posts were linked to at the top of this page. Each thread indicates a theme that will continually recur as the whole picture is gradually pencilled-in, and will hopefully help focus discussion in the thread on constructive filling-out and refinement of the specifications on and below this page. {nid 2Z6Y}

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Thus the next Forum post from this author will be in the 'What's "Ontology Chemistry"?' thread. It will pursue the Chemistry metaphor by painting a picture of the AOS' function in the life of a user. It will introduce the OntChem notion of "context", a precisely-defined and central concept in the entire architecture. {nid 2Z39}
Thus the next Forum post from this author will be in the 'What's "Ontology Chemistry"?' thread. It will pursue the Chemistry metaphor by painting a picture of certain key features of the AOS' function in the life of a user. It will introduce the OntChem notion of "context", a precisely-defined and central concept in the entire architecture. {nid 2Z6Z}

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Any emerging consensus, on both content and form, will then be summarized and transferred to this more permanent and hopefully still concise record. That will be very dependent of your input, both as to the technicalities and as to whatever chords the introductory themes might strike with you the readers. So your input on all such matters will be eagerly sought. {nid 2Z3A}
Any emerging consensus, on both content and form, will then be summarized and transferred to this more permanent and hopefully still concise record. That will be very dependent of your input, both as to the technicalities and as to whatever chords the introductory themes might strike with you the readers. So your input on all such matters will be eagerly sought as we proceed. {nid 2Z70}