The first stage of GAO development process: "bag-of-concepts" [via Automotive Ontology Community Group]

Dear All,

Please find some important remarks and a technical guidance about the initial
phase of works on GAO. Feel free to comment on that matters - our goal is to
create the process that is not too complicated and assumes use of simple tools
(at least in the beginning)
1. Some ontological remarks
We start building GAO from collecting the concepts recognised as relevant within
the automotive domain.

The concepts will be collected in a conceptual map called „bag-of-concepts”.
Adding the new concepts to the conceptual map, we can take advantage of the
auto.schema.org or go beyond the set of concepts we have there. The first set of
concepts is stored in GAO.mm file.

By the collaborative development we shall create the conceptualisation of the
automotive domain shared by all the participants of Automotive Ontology
Community Group.

At this stage of GAO development process we shall not impose any semantical
structure on the bag-of-concepts. The concepts are to be loosely linked by one
relation which covers all the SKOS-like hierarchical and associative relations
such as "broader", "narrower" and "(somehow) related".

Of course, in the end, GAO is intended to be a formal specification (RDF(S) or
OWL) of the conceptualisation of the automotive domain (shared by all the
participants of Automotive Ontology Community Group). So just after the
community decides the work on the conceptual map of the domain was completed, we
shall transform the bag-of-concepts into the first version of GAO
2. A brief technical guidance
At this stage to contribute to GAO it is enough to have the most up-to-date
conceptual map of GAO concepts represented by the mind mapping diagram (see
GAO.mm file). The GAO.mm file can be easily modified by FreeMind tool (available
here: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download).

GAO.mm file is located in GitHub GAO-GAO repository (see:
https://github.com/W3C-GAO/gao-gao). The path is:

bag-of-concepts mindmap --> freemind files --> GAO.mm

It is recommended to use a GitHub software (win: https://windows.github.com or
mac: https://mac.github.com) to access and modify GAO-GAO repository. You can
use standard

 "pull" to grab any changes from the GAO-GAO repository and to merge them into
your local repository
 "push" to send your contribution from your local repository to GAO-GAO one.

If you prefer you can also open/submit an issue suggesting some changes or send
your GAO.mm files by e-mail directly to robert.trypuz@makolab.net.

Further steps of GAO development process will be discussed during the next
teleconference (see GAO Community Charter:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/GAO_Community_Charter).



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