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FYI. I think the opening sentence on this page should read
This IS the Ontolog Community Wiki, an integral part of its
[Collaborative Work Environment] ("CWE").
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rather than the current:
This ISN'T the Ontolog Community Wiki, an integral part of its
[Collaborative Work Environment] ("CWE").
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Leo    (03)

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Ontolog Community Wiki    (01)

This isn't the Ontolog Community Wiki, an integral part of its [Collaborative Work Environment] ("CWE"). The wiki is intended for use by trusted team and community members of Projects and Communities of Practice (CoP's) for collaborative documentation. What we have here is a read-and-write web, as opposed to the ordinary web pages that you can only read from, with your browser. Treat this as the restaurant napkin that you can sketch on, to share your idea with people sitting around the table. Except, this time, the wiki is you napkin, and the people you are sharing your idea with can be all around the world, sitting in front of their computer (or looking at their handheld device) connected to the Internet; and they don't even necessarily have to be there at the same time you are sketching.    (02)

First time users should read more about the [WikiWikiWeb] and then play in the [SandBox]. Text formatting rules for [UseModWiki] (the flavor of wiki we employ here) are at [TextFormattingRules]. For rules about this Wiki, read our WikiStyleGuide and WikiProcessGuide. Please set your [Preferences] and assign yourself a "WikiWord" styled user name (like "JaneDoe" or "AbrahamLincoln") before you proceed with a wiki authoring session from a different machine.    (03)

Charter of the Ontolog Forum    (011)

Ontolog is an open forum to:    (012)

• Discuss practical issues and strategies associated with the development of both formal and informal ontologies used in business.    (013)

• Identify ontological engineering approaches that might be applied to the UBL effort.    (014)

Communities of Practice & Projects    (04)

 (to add a project, add a bullet below with a project name, and start a wiki page on it. 
 A [project page template] is available as an optional guide.)    (052)

• UblOntology - UBL Ontology Project    (018)
• ProtegeKIF? - Protege-KIF Project    (053)

Discussion Forum / Mailing Lists Archives / File-Sharing Workspace / Document Archives    (05)

• [ontolog-forum] mailing-list discussion archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/    (06)
• File-Sharing Workspace / Document Archives - http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/    (025)

News & Announcements    (07)

• [Dr. Steven Ray] of NIST will give a presentation on "NIST's Semantic Approach to Standards and Interoperability" at our ConferenceCall_2004_02_12    (056)
• [Dr. Leo Obrst] gave a presentation on "[Ontologies for Semantically Interoperable Systems]" at our [Conference Call 2004-01-15]    (057)
• First [ontolog] Meeting & Workshop: Wed ~ Fri Nov. 5~7, 2003, San Francisco. see: OntologWorkshop_Nov_2003    (041)

Membership    (019)

• we currently have over 60 members in the community, coming from 10 different countries.    (022)

• Members    (020)
• a [membership profile] was compiled by KurtConrad based members' self-introduction message posts, and/or their [responses] to our member-survey    (028)
• this "ontolog-member-survey-0" form is available online at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/ontolog0.html    (029)
• all new members (and those who have not had a chance to complete it) is requested to fill-out and submit this survey form    (030)

• Membership - Active Members & Observers (see [discussion])    (021)

Community Process    (045)

• Process will be discussed and aopted among the "active" [ontolog] community members from time to time. "Observers" will not have voting rights to the establishment of the community process. (ref. [Sep-02 terms of reference])    (046)

• in the absence of [ontolog] community established process, our process will default to the current OASIS TC Process. (ref. [Sep-02 terms of reference])    (047)

Publications & Deliverables    (023)

• "[Ontolog] UBL Ontology Project Status Report". Compiled by KurtConrad. First relased on 2003-04-28. The report summarizes the [ontolog-forum]'s progress-to-date and presented to the UBL TC. Full report available at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/pub/report/OntologUBLOntologyProjectReport.pdf    (024)

CommunityAnecdotes?    (08)

[Calendar]?    (09)

Tools    (026)

• ToolsCollaboration    (027)
• [SUO-KIF Browser] (v1.8, by MichaelSevcenko, with SUMO v1.566) - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/kifb    (040)
• [SIGMA Knowledge Engineering Environment] (alpha release, by AdamPease) - http://sigma2.cim3.net:8080/sigma/Browse.jsp?kb=UBLONT&lang=en    (049)
• To download and install Protege-2000, visit http://protege.stanford.edu [download page]    (058)
• A survey on members' views on ontology tools and repository is being conducted    (031)
• this "ontolog-tool-survey-1" form is available online at http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/survey/ontolog1.html    (032)
• all new members (and those who have not had a chance to complete it) is requested to fill-out and submit this survey form    (034)
• see interim survey results at http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2002-11/msg00035.html    (033)
• LeoObrst's recommendation: [Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools], by Michael Denny (published November 06, 2002 on xml.com)    (035)
• TemplateProjectPage    (048)

More about Collaborative Work Environments ("CWEs")    (015)

• [COMMUNITY WEBBOARD] by Nancy Cohen, Open Magazine    (016)
• [Our Shared Playground - An Interview with Michael Schrage] by Marcia Conner, LiNE Zine    (017)
• ... more about wiki's - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki    (050)
• ... about Purple Numbers - see: http://ps1.cim3.net/ps.php    (051)
• Since we are using, predominantly, Open Source or Free Software in this CWE The article: "[Understanding Open Source Software]" by Mark Webbink, Esq. of Red Hat (published Dec. 31, 2003) should help explain what "open source sofwtare" is, and demystify some of the legal and intellectual property rights issues in software licensing.    (054)

Intellectual Property Rights Policy    (036)

• the [ontolog-forum] is chartered to be an OPEN forum. As such, all contribution to this forum by its community membership shall have been made under an open content license, open publication license or one of the [free software] or [open source] licenses. (See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free_content)    (037)
• unless otherwise specified, content within the [ontolog-forum] collaborative work environment shall be subject to OpenContent License (OPL), Version 1.0, July 14, 1998 or its successor. (see http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml)    (038)
• when in doubt, IPR matters relating to the [ontolog-forum] default to the [OASIS IPR policy] (in accordance with the [processes] defined in our reconstitution of September 2002.)    (039)
• those who are unable to contribute under the above licensing arrangements should refrain from contributing to the [ontolog-forum] content.    (055)

CreditsAcknowledgement    (010)

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