Those who have been attending our planning meetings will recall
that we have had the item: "NCOR relationship" listed as
"pending" for months now. (01)
I am pleased to report that we (through exchanges between myself,
Barry Smith and Mark Musen) are making very good progress lately,
and are poised to establish a Two-Way Partnership Relationship
between Ontolog and NCOR (once we get all the formalities out of
the way). On our part, what needs to be done is that we put forth
a motion, and get that adopted by this community. (02)
Terms of Reference: (03)
According to the NCOR Statutes, they are expecting NCOR partners
to be: "institutions and research groups in academia, industry
and government (that) have a proven track record of excellence in
ontological research or in the application of ontology to the
solving of concrete problems. In addition they should be
committed to NCOR�s primary goal of raising the quality of
ontological research and development through development and
testing of objective measures of quality. (04)
NCOR partner will also have obligations: (05)
o to contribute to NCOR�s broader goals of coordination and
evaluation of ontology research; (06)
o to help steer NCOR�s work in a direction that makes sense
for their respective constituency; (07)
o to help publicize NCOR�s goals in their respective
constituency; (08)
o to inform the Executive Committee about funding
opportunities, and (09)
o to provide real problems which can be used to test
ontologies developed by other NCOR partners." (010)
I believe Ontolog qualifies. (011)
Additionally, I reckon that we (Ontolog) will readily accept as
'partner' any organization that shares our vision and mission as
stated in the Ontolog's Charter (ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nidB) and is
willing to join us in advancing that mission. In the case of
NCOR, I trust that a two-way Partnership between our two
organizations (NCOR and Ontolog) will potentially bring about
synergies that will benefit practitioners and users of ontologies
or ontology-related work. (012)
Motion: (013)
I, therefore, move: (014)
"That the Ontolog community offer NCOR to be an 'Ontolog Partner'
and to accept to be an 'NCOR Partner' if so offered." (015)
Due Process: (016)
(a) I need an active Ontolog member to second the motion. (017)
(b) For the next 7 calendar days, we'll open this up for
discussion (via this virtual forum), suggestions or amendments. (018)
(c) After that we'll re-state the (possibly updated) motion and
put it to the vote. The ballot shall be open for 7 calendar days
(during which active members will vote by e-mail.) We may adopt
this summarily if there are no objections. (precedence ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2005-06/msg00059.html#nid05) (019)
If we are lucky, we may be able to adopt this in time to allow us
to announce this during the upcoming Ontolog Face-to-Face Meeting
which commences on 23-Jul-2006. As such, your prompt response are
solicited and appreciated. (020)
Feel free to post any question you may have on the matter. (021)
Thanks & regards. =ppy (022)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
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