Re: [ontolog-forum] what is open ontology?

[paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, what would it mean to say that a Word document was 'open'?

 

I am not sure I see the analogy, however there would be a loong discussion around a statement above, and related assumptions, but I dont think its central

An ontology is a (document consisting of) a collection of formal sentences. You can read the document: how much more 'open' can it get?

The document is a repository, the ontology cosists of formal statements
and thats where the question of 'openness' is key and a major challenge today, in particular in the light of collaborative technologies etc etc

The opennes of the repository is important, however  it is secondary to the openness of the statements, (whatever that may mean, require and imply, which needs to be discussed)
Whithout defining the latter, the former cannot be established meaningfully.



pdm

Pat

a repository is only a repository, and debating its opennes is interesting but
an open ontology, as in 'collaboratively deleveloped, adaptive, transforming, accessible, usable, multifaceted ontologies  are  key challenges  to ontology engineering , and open repositories are only an aspect

looking at the repository as being the answer to the opennes of an ontology is trivialising
the collective intelligence aspef of ontology engineering, which in my view comes before
the repository aspect is discussed


PDM


 

Pat

My early take linked below, I would be happy to share notes on the work done in this last year, as well as to hear how the work of this summit is related or differs to the points below

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology

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