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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.
I know that sense, which you have raised before. However, I think
the subsequent discussion revealed that this is not the primary sense
of "open" with which we are concerned in this forum, but was
something more like "open source". And in any case, with
this sense of 'open', I doubt if any nontrivial open ontology could
ever be constructed.
It is also used as the opposite of private (so you
can't read it) or proprietary (someone owns and controls
it).
Which is why I used the analogy of the Word document, i.e. its
'open' if its not private and is freely available; matters simply of
file permissions and copyright law.
Pat
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] what is open ontology?
At 7:59 PM +0700 4/21/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx
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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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