The gradually-growing form of ChristopherSpottiswoode's ... (2YBQ)
Ontology Chemistry - a grand challenge project proposition (2YBR)
Preamble (2YBZ)
(hopefully to be rendered redundant before long.) (2YC3)
The project 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, ... or pretentiousness, ... or sheer folly. (2YC0)
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!" (2YC1)
So one major objective in these pages is not only to convince you that the project is feasible, with the envisaged Ontolog Community-managed steps even within a practical Grand Challenge timeframe, but also to convey to what extent the project's targeted outcome should also embody, and even strongly reinforce and augment, all the major checks and balances against the rightly-feared human tendency. (2YC2)
A 3-step project as starting-point for discussion at this stage (2YC4)
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. (By end 2011?) Then if so: (2YC5)
2. Further define and organize, then fund, mount, launch and execute the Grand Challenge. (Launch or some earlier clear stage at Ontology Summit 2012?) (2YCI)
The outcome would be a starter "Application Operating System" (AOS) able to function as qualitatively-better platform or environment for all Internet-based applications, and thereby to start bootstrapping the new ecosystem. (1 further year, with review at Ontology Summit 2013?) (You'll see how that could well be not out of the question, thanks to the Challenge product / AOS boot product's fully architecture-canonical design.) (2YC6)
3. The evolving and burgeoning ecosystem now launched into the Internet wild continues as a fully self-managed universal marketplace. (Onwards, with ever more variations of the AOS, always interoperable.) (2YC7)
... (2YCH)
The following sections will build on the areas listed in the "Matthew Lange 5x5 points" from this paragraph in an earlier post: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2011-10/msg00160.html#nid06 (2YCG)
An outline of AOS, its requirements, and resulting ecosystem (2YC8)
... (many further details still coming!) (2YC9)
Key aspects of the proposed new architectural paradigm (2YCA)
(and its particular appropriateness as a focus of the Ontolog Community.) (2YCB)
... (many further details still coming!) (2YCC)
The wonderful - and attractive! - appropriateness as a Grand Challenge (2YCD)
... (many further details still coming!) (2YCE)
Some confidently foreseeable wider impacts (2YCF)
... (many further details still coming!) (2YBS)