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

[paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi Peter
thanks for the pointer, I have just joined the summit list, btw, and will catch up with interest with the threads

The questions of openness, ontology and repository however, are very wide,  and are being tackled by different research communities from different angles. They pertain to the 'open' domain 

As such, they are of general interest and not solely confined to the summit

I will make sure I post to that list summit specific questions, if thats ok

PDM

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paola et al. ... if this discussion is specifically related to the OOR
theme of OntologySummit2008, please use the [ontology-summit] list
(instead of [ontolog-forum] - our general discussion list). We
actually have champions who are trying to synthesize the discussion
there.  =ppy
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM,  <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Well, what would it mean to say that a Word document was 'open'?
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> 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
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> > An ontology is a (document consisting of) a collection of formal
> sentences. You can read the document: how much more 'open' can it get?
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> 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
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> 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.
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> > a repository is only a repository, and debating its opennes is interesting
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology
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