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Re: [ontology-summit] founding members meeting' , ownership of 'open ont

To: "Ontology Summit 2008" <ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve Ray <ray@xxxxxxxx>, "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:53:25 -0400
Message-id: <af8f58ac0804292153p5d9e0006pbe4f00c12405b363@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Paola,    (01)

You aren't taking my joke about patenting the word "open" seriously, are you?    (02)

=ppy    (03)

P.S.  as mentioned the OOR Initiative is independent of
OntologySummit2008 (and even the [ontolog-forum].) Therefore, please
take your OOR-Initiative-related issues up with me, Leo or Mike
off-line. Thanks.  =ppy
--    (04)


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:42 PM,  <paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings all
>
>  It was a pleasure to finally meet everybody at the Summit, and thanks
>  again for efforts being put up. The forum is a great resource for all
>  of us, and as the community grows it is important that 'active
>  community members' take more responsiblity for its development.
>  I hope it continues to stay that way.
>
>   I was surprised to learn today about an 'open ontology founders
>  meeting' which took place in January
>
>  http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23#nid17D9
>
>  because I found no reference in my inbox nor in the list archives, to
>  any invitation to participate in such meeting.
>  Can someone point me to any announcement about that meeting (before it
>  took place?)
>
>  Specifically on that wiki page, ther is a reference to some not better
>  specified IPR being reserved, but no acknowledgment of prior
>  work and existing IPR, which is in contradiction of some of the
>  principles of our community and forum, and could possibly cause
>  conflict
>
>  Being an early proponent of 'Open Ontology', both in terms of wording
>  and concepts (I have published papers on this forum and elsewhere
>  about this work) and having already extracted a set of metadata from
>  the framework, which our metadata champion Michael did not know of,
>  (while the rest of this community did, as we discussed it extensively
>  on this list)  I was particularly surprised to learn that the
>  participants to the 2008 summit have not been informed of the pre
>  existing , and prior work under the same heading, and related
>  pre-existing IPR.
>
>  Issues such as 'ownership' and control of 'open ontology' concept and
>  derived artifacts should be addressed, before they can be claimed and
>  trademarked by related parties.
>
>  I would thefore encourage clarification as required, as well as
>  acnkowledgment of prior IPR, in order to avoid potential conflicts,
>  and some information relating to such new lists where the OOR work is
>  being discussed where we can cross reference the contributions made to
>  date, so that they can be duly acknowledged by the body of knowledge
>  which is being generated.
>
>  I would encourage such issues to be addressed and clarified before the
>  communique issued, as some of the statements therein contained may
>  constitue an infringement of existing copyright, and this forum
>  brought up to date on the new OOR list (where to join?) and other
>  developments
>
>  I look forward to developments
>
>  --
>  Paola Di Maio
>  School of IT
>  www.mfu.ac.th
>  *********************************************
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