Methodology?

Gav,

here is a good paper as an introduction

http://www.jukm.org/jukm_1_3/consensus_building_in_collaborative/jukm_1_3_0199_0216_karapiperis.pdf

That's a good overview of the scientific method, but please note that none
of what is currently in place is considered final, satisfactory and complete

everything is in flux, and we are part of it

My preferred approach is KISS, and borrow elements from methodologies that
we like
to build our own way of doing things, while referencing and learning
existing good practices

look forward to ideas

cheers

P

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> 3. I'm getting a vibe that quite a few on this list want to go
> > entirely with a distributed, individualistic approach to designing
> > this ontology - letting two individuals connect to match needs etc,
> > without actually considering any interaction with either emergency
> > services, government agencies or non-governmental organisations.
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> Again, I am not sure how you get that vibe from. Personally in creating
> ontology the approach is scientific and aimed to create a shared, factual
> viewpoint as the basis of  common understanding.  We specifically use
> 'ontology engineering methods' to ensure that.
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> When it comes to collaborative ontology building, such methods are still
> experimental, so in a way, we are working with something relatively new.
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