Yes.  I am very interested.  In fact I am trying to write up our teaching  experience in terms of "issues", "patterns" and "operations" as we speak and getting together a Manchester effort to pool our teaching experience.

I agree with Chris that I would prefer to avoid "Meta-ontology" which risks being seen, or worse becoming, too abstracted

Also, trivia - OPEN is a great acronym, but on its own it risks being filtered by headers for other open source lists unless we are sure we stick to "[OPEN]" in the subject header with both square brackets. Without the square brackets it's likely to get lost.

Regards

Alan
 

Christopher Welty wrote:

 
Alan, Pat,

At the f2f, we formed a task force within the working group called "Ontology Patterns and Engineering" (OPEN) which will focus on publishing ontology design patterns and general "meta ontological" (for lack of a better term) design principles (the notion of a "backbone taxonomy" for example).  Current members are Deborah McGuinness, Aldo Gangemi, Oscar Corcho, and Mike Uschold.  And me.

We agreed at the f2f to TRY and put [OPEN] in the subject line for task force communication, and members will be expected to write and review some patterns/design principles.

I think you two would be very good additions to the group.  I'm not sure there is any formal membership process for task forces (Guus - is there???), but I suppose it would be useful for us to know who considers themselves to be participants - so please let us know if you'll join.

-Chris

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