On 3/30/11 11:25 AM, Jack Park wrote:
> One observation, FWIW. I'm not able to tell how Fact Guru is
> implemented other than one mention about site builder and Java. If FG
> is implemented with GPL dependencies, then FG will be licensed GPL.
> Drupal is GPL.
>
> Perhaps it's off topic, but by contrast, Mark Klein's group at MIT
> built their climate collab [1] as a set of portlets for the Liferay
> portal (not GPL). Portlets allow you to plug-and-play with varieties
> of features (other portlets).
>
> One comment: I like FG. Nicely done. (01)
Will there not be a graph dump in some format? (02)
Kingsley
> Jack
> [1] http://climatecolab.org/web/guest
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, John F. Sowa<sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We have discussed the relationships between ontologies and terminologies
>> in many email threads. Some people blur the distinction by saying that
>> their terminologies are ontologies, and others make a sharp distinction
>> between them. But one point is clear: the people who use applications
>> only see terminologies, and the developers need to relate ontologies
>> to terminologies.
>>
>> A few weeks ago, I sent a note that mentioned Fact Guru by Doug Skuce
>> as tool that could help bridge the gap between terminologies and
>> ontologies. In particular, FG could simplify the task of mapping
>> the terms of an terminology to the more formal ontology. After the
>> development of the ontology, FG could be used to display either or
>> both, side by side. For the Open Ontology Repository, FG could be
>> useful, but only if the software were available as open source.
>>
>> Therefore, I had a discussion with Doug about the possibility of
>> releasing the Fact Guru software as open source under the LGPL.
>> Doug agreed, and he is also planning to attend the Ontology Summit
>> on April 18. He would be happy to discuss the use of FG with anyone
>> who may be interested. On the cc list above, I added the email for
>> Doug Skuce and for John Talbot, who did most of the implementation.
>>
>> In the links below, note the wide range of sophistication of the
>> possible applications. The Animals example was implemented by
>> Doug's 9-year-old daughter as a school project. The SUMO example
>> was downloaded from the actual SUMO ontology. For each term in
>> SUMO, FG shows both the English-like text and the axioms written
>> in KIF.
>>
>> John Sowa
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Fact Guru
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:31:05 -0500
>> From: John F. Sowa<sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: [ontolog-forum]<ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Doug Skuce<drskuce@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I was talking with an old friend, Doug Skuce, who taught AI and
>> knowledge engineering at the University of Ottawa for many years.
>> He and his students and colleagues have developed some software
>> that could be valuable for designing and supporting ontologies.
>>
>> In the late 80s he developed a knowledge acquisition tool called
>> CODE (Conceptually Oriented Development Environment) in Smalltalk.
>> Since CODE did not run on the web, he designed a new version called
>> Fact Guru in the late 90s. FG can be used to organize a knowledge
>> base of any kind and present it in a highly readable way;
>>
>> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/FactGuru.pdf
>>
>> Following is a blurb from the web site:
>>
>> With Fact Guru you can improve understanding by:
>>
>> * storing facts grouped by subject in a highly structured
>> knowledge base.
>>
>> * searching the knowledge base to find just the fact you need
>>
>> * comparing subjects to see a comparison matrix of differences
>>
>> * viewing subjects as a graph to see relationships between them
>>
>> For a beginner's example that uses only English, see the knowledge
>> base of Canadian Animals, which was implemented by Doug's nine year
>> old daughter. Click on any animal name to find a collection of
>> information about it:
>>
>> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/animals/index.html
>>
>> More important for ontology is the use of Fact Guru to import,
>> organize, and display the top-level ontology of SUMO:
>>
>> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/sumo/index.html
>>
>> For an example of a knowledge base about a technical subject,
>> see the Fact Guru KB about the Java programming language, which
>> Doug used for teaching a course on Java:
>>
>> http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~tcl/factguru1/java/index.html
>>
>> This KB is important for two reasons: (1) it is cross linked
>> to an associated HTML document about Java; and (2) it is written
>> in a version of controlled English called ClearTalk.
>>
>> Doug is currently working with some programmers who are
>> reimplementing Fact Guru with the Drupal content management
>> software in order to organize and relate multiple knowledge
>> bases. This could be useful for the Open Ontology Repository.
>>
>> I thought that participants in Ontolog Forum might express
>> their wish list about features that would be useful for
>> supporting ontologies and their applications.
>>
>> John Sowa
>>
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