One suggestion: (01)
"The Protege team has pulled together and administered a very
substantial community with the Protege project at its center and
serving as the main attractor. We, Ontolog -- an open, virtual,
international community focused in moving the application of
ontologies into the main stream -- has found our inter-community
collaboration with the Protege folks, to be most synergistic and
valuable to ourselves, as well as to industry, government and academia
at-large." (02)
One more thought: since sending the letter by e-mail is an option too
(though, Mark did say he prefers the letter to be on the sender
organization's letterhead), doing ours by e-mail isn't all bad ... it
does serve to highlight our identity as a "virtual" organization.
Please consider. (03)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (04)
On 4/13/06, Kurt Conrad <conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ontolog community,
>
> Peter Yim recently posted a message from Mark
> Musen, where Mark asked for letters of support
> for the renewal of the grants supporting the
> Protégé system (see
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2006-03/msg00032.html).
>
> This topic was raised at Ontolog's regular
> planning sessions. The consensus of those
> present was that Ontolog should draft a letter of
> support. Towards that end, we'd like to try
> using the mailing list to brainstorm ideas and
> draft language for the letter.
>
> Please reply to this message by Wednesday
> (2006.04.19) with any ideas and thoughts that you
> might have in support of Mark's efforts. Mark
> provides a list of specific topics and questions in his posting.
>
> Brief snippets of content are also welcome. For example:
>
> "Protege is now tremendously effective
> across many domains . It provides useful
> and useable tools which make ontology
> real. I've had several doctoral candidates
> who's dissertations were basically leveraged
> by Protégé's ability to represent
> their key topics. Protege has become an
> essential element in our research
> infrastructure and is rapidly becoming one
> in business as well. If Protégé and
> its staff were to go away, there would be
> great difficulties in making forward
> progress in many, many domains."
>
> An editorial team will consolidate the
> community's input and draft Ontolog's formal
> response to Mark, who can forward it with others
> received to The United States National Library of
> Medicine. Needless to say, if anyone wants to
> participate in the actual drafting of the letter,
> your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Also, as submissions on letterhead would be
> preferred, kudos would be given to anyone who
> would take it upon themselves to come up with a
> letterhead design for Ontolog.
>
> /s/ kwc 2006.04.13 23:45
>
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