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Dear
Pat,
Where
ontologies or similar artefacts like data models are concerned, "open" is
usually used to refer to the process by which it is created, i.e. one that has
no restrictions on who can participate in its development. It is also used as
the opposite of private (so you can't read it) or proprietary (someone owns and
controls it).
Regards
Matthew West
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Subject: Re:
[ontolog-forum] what is open ontology?
At 7:59 PM +0700 4/21/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Greetings
In preparation for next
week summit which has as a central theme open ontology repository, I am
trying to sum up work done to date in this area.
The first point that
I need to clear up is: ' what is open ontology', I think having an
idea of what different people mean by 'open ontology', may help us to
develop the discourse around OOR, and to contribute more meaningfully to the
objectives of the workshop
As I understand the phrase, the initial 'open' in 'open ontology
repository' is meant to qualify 'repository' rather than 'ontology'. That is,
we are talking about an open repository of ontologies. What exactly this means
is of course open for discussion, of which there has already been quite a good
deal, and (guess what) people don't all agree. But the debate has been about
the openness of the repository, not of the ontologies. I don't think it makes
sense to refer to an ontology as being open (or not).
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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Paola Di Maio
School of
IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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