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Re: [oor-forum] Defining "Ontology Repository" (maybe "Ontology Registry

To: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: John Graybeal <graybeal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:09:49 +0100
Message-id: <p0624082fc3be73a5cff1@[192.168.0.120]>
I'd say it is one but we want ours to have more features and more consistent 
features, for example:
- access to term-level information
- change tracking at file and term level
- access to all ontologies via consistent web service interfaces    (01)

And many other features no doubt. :->    (02)

John    (03)

At 1:24 AM -0600 1/24/08, Pat Hayes wrote:
>At 10:08 PM -0500 1/23/08, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
>>Peter Yim wrote:
>>>>  In particular, were made an attempt (and came close) to adopting
>>>>  a  definition for "ontology repository" (possibly even "ontology
>>>>  registry"), but decided to put this up for asynchronous discussion
>>>>  deliberation due to time constraints.
>>>
>>>  Ref.
>>>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OOR/ConferenceCall_2008_01_23#nid17US
>>>
>>>  We were close ... (and have got to):
>>>
>>>  "An ontology repository is a facility where ontologies and related
>>  > information artifacts can be stored, retrieved and managed."
>
>Consider the Web as a 'repository' of OWL and RDF ontologies,
>identified by URIs. One can store them and retrieve them, and if one
>has control over their location, manage them. Is the Web a ontology
>repository, then? If not, why not? If so, why do we need to make
>another?
>
>Pat
>
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