I support this partnership. (01)
Naijun (02)
> 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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