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

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From: Rex Brooks <rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:11:13 -0800
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Concur.    (01)

Cheers,
Rex    (02)

At 8:13 PM -0800 1/23/08, Peter Yim wrote:
>I concur, Lee. In fact, I was hoping we would have come to closure on
>this at the call today (but unfortunately, we did not.)
>
>Since we only had 12 people on the call (out of the 38 that are
>subscribed to the list), it does help to get buyin from the entire
>team. If we don't have further objections (which I hope we don't) we
>could just summarily adopt the definition that the meeting
>participants came up with today.
>
>Thanks & regards.  =ppy
>--
>
>
>On Jan 23, 2008 10:08 PM EST, Lee Feigenbaum 
><lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  Peter Yim wrote Jan 23, 2008 12:02 PM PST:
>>  >> 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."
>
>>  Hi Peter,
>>
>>  I find this definition perfectly acceptable.
>
>>  > Let's open this up for discussion and then put it to a vote after 7
>>  > calendar days (from the time-stamp of this message).
>>  >
>>  > Feel free to attempt defining "ontology registry" or "registry" too.
>>  > If we are getting close, we'll adopt that as well.
>
>>  While I found the discussion today quite interesting, I'm not sure how
>>  important it is to our going forward to define registry or ontology
>>  registry itself. I think there was a consensus understanding in general
>>  of the distinction between a repository and a registry -- if we agree on
>>  a definition for a repository (which is our end goal, if I understand
>>  the project correctly :-), then perhaps we do not need to belabor a
>>  definition of ontology registry as well?
>>
>>  Lee
>
>[ppy]  I concur, Lee. In fact, I was hoping we would have come to
>closure on this at the call today (but unfortunately, we did not.)
>
>Since we only had 12 people on the call (out of the 38 that are
>subscribed to the list), it does help to get buyin from the entire
>team. If we don't have further objections (which I hope we don't) we
>could just summarily adopt the definition that the meeting
>participants came up with today.
>
>Thanks & regards.  =ppy
>--
>
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