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, its pretentiousness, its 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 to convince you that the project is feasible, with the envisaged Ontolog Community-managed steps even within a practical Grand Challenge timeframe.    (2YCK)

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, all the major checks and balances against the rightly-feared human tendencies confessed-to above.    (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. An Ontolog Community-derived team further defines and organizes, then funds, mounts, launches and executes 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 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 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. (1 further year, with review at Ontology Summit 2013?)    (2YC6)

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.    (2YCL)

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. (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 the 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 and product 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)