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Dear
Pat,
Where
ontologies or similar artefacts like data models are concerned, "open" is
usually used to refer to the process by which it is created, i.e. one that
has no restrictions on who can participate in its
development.
I know that sense, which you have raised before. However, I think the
subsequent discussion revealed that this is not the primary sense of "open"
with which we are concerned in this forum, but was something more like "open
source".
MW: If we mean "open source" then we should say "open source" and not
just "open".
And in any case, with this
sense of 'open', I doubt if any nontrivial open ontology could ever be
constructed.
MW: What do you mean by non-trivial? Are you suggesting that we should
not include ontologies that are trivial?
Regards
Matthew West
Reference Data Architecture and
Standards Manager
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It is also used as the opposite of
private (so you can't read it) or proprietary (someone owns and controls
it)
Which is why I used the analogy of the Word document, i.e. its 'open' if
its not private and is freely available; matters simply of file permissions
and copyright law.
Pat
Regards
Matthew
West
Reference Data Architecture and Standards Manager
Shell
International Petroleum Company Limited
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Wales
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London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom
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Sent: 21 April 2008 15:41
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Subject: Re:
[ontolog-forum] what is open ontology?
At 7:59 PM +0700 4/21/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Greetings
In preparation for next
week summit which has as a central theme open ontology repository, I am
trying to sum up work done to date in this area.
The first point
that I need to clear up is: ' what is open ontology', I think
having an idea of what different people mean by 'open ontology', may
help us to develop the discourse around OOR, and to contribute more
meaningfully to the objectives of the workshop
As I understand the phrase, the initial 'open' in 'open
ontology repository' is meant to qualify 'repository' rather than
'ontology'. That is, we are talking about an open repository of
ontologies. What exactly this means is of course open for discussion, of
which there has already been quite a good deal, and (guess what) people
don't all agree. But the debate has been about the openness of the
repository, not of the ontologies. I don't think it makes sense to refer
to an ontology as being open (or not).
Pat
My early take linked below, I would
be happy to share notes on the work done in this last year, as well as
to hear how the work of this summit is related or differs to the points
below
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology
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Paola Di Maio
School of IT
www.mfu.ac.th
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