Thank you for the update, Nicola ... sounds wonderful. No problem
about (not making) today's call ... neither did the others, and
therefore we skipped the UOS discusson. Guess we better do it
asynchronously with this mailing list. Regards. =ppy (01)
On 4/6/06, Nicola Guarino <guarino@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> unfortunately I missed today's telecon. I am traveling in Germany,
> and was unable to connect.
>
> Concerning the joint communique, I will be happy to review it once a
> new version has been drafted along the suggestions made by Mike Uschold.
>
> I have briefly reported the UOS meeting conclusions at the kickoff
> meeting of a new European project, NeON (www.neon-project.org), whose
> main goal is to develop a new-generation infrastructure for dealing
> with multiple, networked ontologies. In particular, the project will
> develop tools and methodologies for modeling and reasoning on formal
> links between ontologies, as well as supporting collaborative design
> and reuse of ontologies.
>
> Despite the project doesn't pay a specific attention to upper-level
> ontologies, certainly its expected results will be of interest for
> the people who share the UOS conclusions. In addition, we agreed that
> the ontologies presented at the UOS would be in principle an
> excellent case study for the NeON project. However, the project has
> already two very concrete case studies involving domain ontologies,
> so it will be difficult to allocate specific resources to study the
> "internetworking" of upper ontologies. I'll do my best to promote all
> the possible synergies, though. I am copying this message to Enrico
> Motta, who is the project coordinator, and to Aldo Gangemi, who is in
> charge of the workpackage on "Collaborative aspects for networked
> ontologies".
>
> Best,
>
> Nicola
>
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