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

To: John Graybeal <graybeal@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:26:00 -0600
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At 6:09 PM +0100 1/24/08, John Graybeal wrote:
>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    (01)

That can be provided by a suitable interface. Existing SWeb editors 
such as Protege and COE do this.    (02)

>- change tracking at file and term level    (03)

Im not sure what this means ('tracking'?)    (04)

>- access to all ontologies via consistent web service interfaces    (05)

Surely this is exactly what the Web provides.    (06)

>
>And many other features no doubt. :->    (07)

But could they be best created as a collection of Web services 
accessing ontologies on the SWeb?    (08)

Pat    (09)

>
>John
>
>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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