Re: Open source ontology registry/repository

Stephane Fellah wrote:

>Hi,
>
>The open-source ontology registry/repository is a great idea. I am
>thinking about it for some time. The way I envision it is to have a sort
>of Ontology SourceForge that would provide collaborative tools to
>develop ontology (versioning maintenance, search tool, editing tool,
>reasoner, validator, semantic wiki, etc...). Such a web service would
>provide a tremendous momentum to the SW activities. I am wondering if
>W3C may be the right place to do this...
>  
>
The open source ebXML Registry and Repository project [1] at SourceForge 
is planning
to support ontologies in its next version. The current version is 
capable of managing
arbitrary content (e.g. OWL ontologies) and standarized metadata.

Curently its supports simple hierarchical taxonomies and has concrete 
plans for implementing
support for OWL ontologies.

If any one is interested in contributing to that work please contact me 
directly. Thanks.

[1] http://ebxmlrr.sourceforge.net

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh


>Best regards
> 
>Stephane Fellah
>Senior Software Engineer
> 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ewallace@cme.nist.gov [mailto:ewallace@cme.nist.gov] 
>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:18 PM
>To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>Cc: Stephane Fellah
>Subject: re: Engineering Mathematics ontology in OWL
>
>
>* This was originally posted to the webont list.  I move it here
>*
>* because this is a more appropriate forum for this sort of discussion.
>*
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>"Stephane Fellah" <fellah@pcigeomatics.com> asked:
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>>I am interested to develop ontologies for Engineering mathematics. So 
>>far, the best model I have found is the one developed by KSL Stanford 
>>in OntoLingua (EngMath ontologies). Is anyone aware of some activities 
>>porting this ontologies in OWL ? The ontology has been developed in 
>>LISP and KIF ? Is it completely portable in OWL or do I need some 
>>extensions in OWL such as OWL Rule Language ? The link to EngMath is at
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>>: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/papers/engmath.html.
>>If no activities is done for this, I think it may be useful to develop 
>>it as an open-source ontology. What would be the best approach to 
>>initiate such a project as open-source  ? Do  other ontologies exist 
>>for engineering mathematics ?
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>>
>
>An OWL version of such an ontology would be a "good thing."  Discussions
>a while back on these lists, revealed that the XML derived semantics for
>integers and floats in RDF are not what is wanted for such engineering
>uses such as measured values.  Developing an open-source OWL-based
>engineering math ontology is also a timely idea as there has recently
>been talk of some 
>of the high profile promoters of the semantic web directly supporting an
>
>open-source ontology registry/repository.
>
>For Semantic Web styled models in this area, have a look at David Leal's
>work 
>on an RDF(S) vocacabulary for quantities and units[1].  This reuses work
>that 
>was done as part of the ISO STEP standardization effort to support
>information 
>exchange of (manufactured) product data.  CIM/XML[2] may also include
>models 
>for units and measured values, although again these would be in RDFS.
>CIM is a power industry standard and their control systems associate
>somewhat richer metadata with measured values.
>
>Evan K. Wallace
>Manufacturing Systems Integration Division
>NIST
>ewallace@nist.gov
>
>[1]
>http://www.scadaonweb.com/publications/units/2/NOTE-units-2002-05-07.htm
>l
>[2] http://www.langdale.com.au/CIMXML/
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