Hi Cameron,
This is an important point. While there are many models of
sustainability, there have been a number of factors in the
sustainability of SUMO (and Sigma) over the past 10 years. (01)
- Have a champion. No idea or project succeeds without one committed
person to drive it. Funding comes and goes, but I view work with SUMO
as my most marketable asset, so I'm committed for the long term.
Pursuing all avenues - government and commercial funding, as well as
volunteer academic work on SUMO has kept it moving forward. (02)
- Open source. Ontology, and particularly formal ontologies in first
order logic, are still a bit speculative as far as the marketplace is
concerned. This was dramatically more so in the year 2000. Giving away
SUMO has led to its adoption on many projects. Academic projects
certainly would not have paid for it, and it is that body of experience
in validating SUMO that has led to commercial use. (03)
- Good technical solution. Obviously, what's being produced has to
work, and be broadly applicable to get traction with a group of
committed users. (04)
- Continued change and evolution. The product has to respond to the
marketplace. Good customer service in making changes and bug fixes is
important. So is a bit of "push" in creatively adding new features and
components. (05)
Adam (06)
On Fri, 2010-09-17 at 08:43 -0400, Cameron Ross wrote:
> In yesterday's ONTOLOG session on IPR, Alan Rector summarized his
> experiences with the GALEN and SNOMED projects. During his
> presentation Alan brought up the issue of sustainability (i.e. the
> ability for a project to continue to survive once its initial seed
> funding has been depleted). I'm not aware of any discussion related
> to OOR sustainability as yet. I believe this is a problem as we are
> starting to talk seriously about licensing models for OOR and the
> licensing models we choose will have a definite impact on the business
> models that the OOR will be able to support. Presumably, the long
> term sustainability of the OOR will be predicated on its licensing
> models. I'd like to start a thread on this topic so that we can
> elicit input from the OOR group prior to our final session on IPR on
> September 30th.
>
>
> What are the groups thoughts in this regard?
>
>
> Cameron.
>
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