What Rex said (if I'm qualified to chime in!)
Jack
Steve Ray wrote:
Great idea. I wholeheartedly support this.
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I second this motion.
Sincerely,
Rex Brooks
At 4:02 AM -0700 7/7/06, Peter P. Yim wrote:
Those who have been attending our planning meetings will recall that we
have had the item: "NCOR relationship" listed as "pending" for months
now.
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.
Terms of Reference:
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.
NCOR partner will also have obligations:
o to contribute to NCOR's broader goals of coordination and
evaluation of ontology research;
o to help steer NCOR's work in a direction that makes sense for
their respective constituency;
o to help publicize NCOR's goals in their respective constituency;
o to inform the Executive Committee about funding opportunities,
and
o to provide real problems which can be used to test ontologies
developed by other NCOR partners."
I believe Ontolog qualifies.
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.
Motion:
I, therefore, move:
"That the Ontolog community offer NCOR to be an 'Ontolog Partner'
and to accept to be an 'NCOR Partner' if so offered."
Due Process:
(a) I need an active Ontolog member to second the motion.
(b) For the next 7 calendar days, we'll open this up for discussion
(via this virtual forum), suggestions or amendments.
(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#nid0
5)
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.
Feel free to post any question you may have on the matter.
Thanks & regards. =ppy
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
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