To
the ontology community,
We
have now established the overall objective for this year’s ontology
summit (see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2009#nid1Q2F
) and the following conversation breakout suggests itself. What might be
productive is to have people sign up for one or more of these aspects of the
problem, with the aim of producing some concrete results and recommendations
prior to the face-to-face meeting. Specifically:
1) Background:
Compilation of existing ontological representations of
standards, along with their associated definitions – conformance classes,
testing suites and methodologies
2) Participants
- identification and outreach:
Organizations that should participate or be represented,
e.g. NATO, UN/CEFACT, ISO, OAGi, NCBO,
OASIS, OMG, …
3) Technical
discussion
1. What is the role
of an ontology in establishing a standard?
2.
What kind of constraints or rules [standards?] should be applied to ontologies
that are used to establish a standard?
3. What kinds of standards lend themselves to the use of
ontologies as their representation?
4. What ontological languages are best suited to represent
standards?
4)
Strategic
vision and roadmap
Articulating
a stretch vision, and the steps needed to get there. What do we think
information standards are going to look like 20 years from now? Who are the
movers to get us there? Who are the enablers and stakeholders? This is an
environment where we can be bold.
I
encourage everyone to identify themselves with one or more of these activities,
and we can set up wiki pages to hold the results. Just as last year, we will
especially need people to synthesize the conversations under each of these
activities on a wiki page, as we proceed. If we divide up these tasks, we can
make a significant contribution in a short time, without having to abandon our
day jobs!
Let’s
see how much we can accomplish together.
Steven R. Ray,
Chief
Manufacturing
Systems Integration Division
National Institute
of Standards & Technology
Phone: (301)
975-3524
Fax: (301) 258-9749
Email: ray@xxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.nist.gov/msid