Dear Ravi, (01)
> Peter
>
> I looked at the links and liked the combination of my and your
> suggestions.
>
> The Opensource.org link [1] is most relevant.
> The Creative Commons link [2] is relevant except for restriction that
> products of commercial nature can not be built upon open license
> products that would limit the field of work only to nonprofits? For
> example I can buy Linux and develop a commercial product on it.
> Therefore the restriction of noncommercial only will be a limiting
> factor.
> The OASIS [3] is an open standards developer
> organization(SDO), but the
> link does not allude to openness definition it only talks about open
> tech committee meetings etc.
>
> Summarizing, without spending too much time on definitions,
> let us adopt
> your suggested combinations and proceed, comments from everyone are
> welcome but we need deadlines to close these preliminaries.
>
> Similarly, for example there is no need to use the distributed or
> federated aspects of open architectures if one can do what one needs
> within one organization, and within one instance, but why restrict the
> architecture from being open and connectable to other repositories. (02)
MW: Now this I agree with. Being open to connection is a quite different
matter from insisting that different ontologies are actually using a
different repository. (03)
Regards (04)
Matthew West
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>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ravi
>
> (Dr. Ravi Sharma) Senior Enterprise Architect
>
> Vangent, Inc. Technology Excellence Center (TEC)
>
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> P.S. As always all such views as these are my own
> professional opinions,
> not necessarily supported or denied by any associated
> organization. What
> is more as I learn more and more technologies and knowledge is
> assimilated by me, I am also entitled to change my previously stated
> positions, and for that reason learning is most welcome activity.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Peter Yim
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:24 PM
> To: Ontology Summit 2008
> Subject: [ontology-summit] [Summit-Focus] The 'Open' in 'Open
> OntologyRepository' - what is within scope, and what out?
>
> Although not 'officially' a part of the Ontology Summit 2008
> discussion, those of us who straddle both the OntologySummit2008 and
> the OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) initiatives would have recognized
> that we have just (in the last 2~3 weeks) spent quite a bit of time
> defining (for the OOR effort) what an "Ontology Repository" is. [See
> thread at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/oor-forum/2008-02/msg00071.html
> ]
>
> Ken Baclawski pointed out, correctly, during the Feb-7 Launch Event,
> that while we had taken so much time to mull over what is an "ontology
> repository" and what is an "ontology registry", we hadn't quite put in
> any time to delineate what is (or isn't) "open" (... and this is the
> response: let's discuss it here, online.)
>
> In Ravi Sharma's earlier post (I'm chaneling that part of the
> discussion over here, Ravi!),
> (ref.
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2008-02/msg00011
> .html#nid0
> 6
> ) he wrote:
>
> //
> [RaviSharma] What I understand from Word OPEN is that it is to be
> decided by this Community that:
>
> OPEN implies:
>
> Open standards based
>
> Open access to all who can be identified or authenticated
>
> Open access to all members of community who want to post comments
> suggestions and opinions
>
> Open access to all trusted and authenticable communities (at least
> Read only)
> //
>
> I also remarked, during the Feb-7 launch, that, (consistent with
> Ontolog's IPR Policy [0]) would want OPEN to mean:
>
> Open standard & open access (which I concur)
>
> Open technology - which includes licensing like those in open
> source software [1],
>
> Open knowledge - which includes open content licensing [2]
>
> Open collaboration - which includes open and transparent
> process [3],
> and
>
> an Open mind from everyone invloved [4].
>
> My favorite references would come from:
>
> [0] The Ontolog IPR Policy -
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32
>
> [1] The Open Source definition -
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
>
> [2] Creative Commons -
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
>
> [3] The OASIS process -
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
>
> [4] this will have to come from each one of us.
>
> ... and, rather than reinventing the wheel, I propose we default to
> some version of the above, well documented references.
>
>
> Thoughts, comments, ...
>
>
> Thanks & regards. =ppy
>
> P.S. I believe this conversation is useful to both OntologySummit2008
> and the OpenOntologyRepository (OOR) efforts (and probably more so to
> the latter.) =ppy
> --
>
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