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> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pat Hayes
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:11 PM
> To: Ontology Summit 2008
> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] [Quality] plurality
>
> At 6:02 PM -0400 3/31/08, Fabian Neuhaus wrote:
> >== Summary: Gatekeeping/ Minimal Requirements ==
> >We discussed a number of candidates for minimal requirements that any
> >ontology has to meet in order to be accepted in the repository. This
> is
> >the list of candidates of criteria that has been suggested:
> >
> >1. Openness (see below)
> >2. /The ontology is expressed in a formal language with a well-defined
> >syntax./
> >3. /The authors of the ontology provide the required metadata. /
> >4. /The ontology has a clearly specified and clearly delineated
> scope.
> >/5. /Successive versions of an ontology are clearly identified.
> >/6. /The ontology has passed certain dynamic tests. /
> >7. /The ontology has unique IDs for its terms. /
> >8. /The ontology is adequately labeled. /
> >9. /The ontology has a plurality of users.
> /
>
> Let me open some discussion on the last of these,
> #9. This seems particularly wrong-headed, as it
> would only allow an ontology into the OOR if it -
> the ontology - were already in wide use. But
> surely one of the purposes of the OOR is to allow
> writers of ontologies to expose them to public
> gaze, in order that they might become widely
> used, and for potential users to discover new,
> potentially useful, ontologies as they become
> available.
>
> Perhaps I have misunderstood what this item is
> supposed to mean. Can anyone comment?
>
> Pat Hayes
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