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To: Till Mossakowski <Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx>, Aleksandra Sojic <aleksandrasojic@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: OpenOntologyRepository-discussion <oor-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:53:55 -0700
Message-id: <CAGdcwD0nZDhHQbs-1rK3wD-ztQ4iJnpvwX=B2DE-ULrWLv_jfQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Nice work! Thank you, Till & Aleksandra.    (01)

Now that we have a good "starting point," we probably should devote a
session (say, a Joint Session with interested collaborators), in the
not-too-distant future, to discuss where to go, from here, and get
input from the broader community.    (02)

Thanks & regards. =ppy
--    (03)


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Till Mossakowski
<Till.Mossakowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Aleksandra Sojic has created a first version of the meta ontology, see
> https://github.com/ontohub/OOR_Ontohub_API/blob/master/Domain_fields.owl -
> use "raw" for downloading and viewing with Protégé:
> https://raw.github.com/ontohub/OOR_Ontohub_API/master/Domain_fields.owl
>
> This ontology provides a meta-classification that according to the domain
> subjects distributes domain-ontologies into the domain-specific classes. As
> the reference classification we have considered several international
> standards which are used to classify domain fields.  The International
> Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) has been selected as the most
> appropriate reference for the specification of the (subject) categories
> within the OntoHub. ISCED is a member of the United Nations International
> Family of Economic and Social Classifications and is the reference
> classification for organizing education programmes and related
> qualifications by levels and fields of education (ref. ISCED). In
> particular, we have used the last version of ISCED (the final draft
> published in June 2013) as it provides a hierarchy of knowledge domains
> suitable for covering comprehensively the corresponding ontology-modelling
> fields.
>
> The Domain-fields-ontology has to be developed further in order to include
> several other specifications, especially considering the domains which
> experience a significant expansion in the ontology development, e.g. Life
> Sciences.
>
> Please find attached a graphical visualisation of the recently published
> Domain-fields ontology.
>
> Best, Till    (04)


> Am 29.05.2013 21:30, schrieb matthew lange:
>>
>>     We aren't taking the lead
>>     in this categorization effort but if a standard (defacto or not) does
>>     arise we would be interested in adapting our system to use it.
>>
>> Watching this thread, and interested as well...do you have a reference
>> for who is heading this up?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Ray Fergerson
>> <ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ray.fergerson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Oliver,
>>
>>     Worth pointing out is that we (the NCBO team) don't feel that the
>>     current
>>     BioPortal categorization is very good. It should probably not be used
>> as
>>     the basis for anything. There are external efforts to produce a
>>     categorization system for the biomedical domain. We aren't taking
>>     the lead
>>     in this categorization effort but if a standard (defacto or not) does
>>     arise we would be interested in adapting our system to use it.
>>
>>     Ray
>>
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>>     Mossakowski
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>>     Subject: Re: [oor-forum] Categories for ontologies
>>
>>     P.S.
>>
>>     the interesting question is then: what happens if we federate
>> BioPortal
>>     with SOCoP? We need a taxonomy including all the involved
>>     categories, such
>>     that in the ontology browser, all the BioPortal categories are
>> combined
>>     into one category "biology" (which can be expanded into the BioPortal
>>     categories on demand).
>>
>>     Till
>>
>>     Am 29.05.2013 08:53, schrieb Till Mossakowski:
>>      > Am 29.05.2013 00:29, schrieb John F Sowa:
>>      >> On 5/28/2013 4:27 PM, Till Mossakowski wrote:
>>      >>> After all, the user wants to use *one* ontology or classification
>>      >>> system for classifying ontologies.
>>      >>
>>      >> What do you mean "one classification system"?
>>      >
>>      > In BioPortal, when the user uploads a new ontology, (s)he can
>> provide
>>      > some categories classifying the ontology. When browsing all
>>      > ontologies, you can also filter them by category.
>>      > The possible categories are: Animal Development, Biological
>> Process,
>>      > Human, Plant, Yeast, Cell etc. (Btw, not all categories returned by
>>      > the REST service can be selected for browsing.) The OOR instance
>>      > http://mercury-ncbo.ornl.gov seems to (erroneously) use the same
>>      > categories In the OOR instance http://socop.oor.net, the categories
>>      > are (exhaustive
>>      > list): Commercial, Cultural, Defense, Financial, Geospatial,
>>      > Government, Literature, Metadata, Other, Process, Provenance,
>>     Science,
>>      > Social Networking, Standards, Technology, Upper Ontologies.
>>      > I now just wonder what we should do for Ontohub.
>>      >
>>      >> The number of different kinds of ontologies, their purposes,
>> goals,
>>      >> applications, levels, logics, notations, uses, etc., is
>> open-ended.
>>      >>
>>      >> Suppose that somebody asked you to compare Cyc to BFO to the Good
>>      >> Relations ontology to schema.org <http://schema.org>.  Where
>>
>>     would you begin?  And why?
>>      >
>>      > It is not about comparing ontologies. It is just that the "filter
>> by
>>      > category" dropdown box on the browsing web page needs to show a
>>     finite
>>      > list of options to the user...
>>      >
>>      > Best, Till
>>      >
>>
>>
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