collaborative ontology

Folks

Just thinking.

It is normal to have different views of the world, we must live with that
(My view of the world must not preclude yours either, and viceversa)

Altough the EIIF group mission statements 'avoids' the explicit use of
the world 'ontology'  it is clear that this incubator was born
following
the requirement for a semantic framework,  which is what we call ontology
A discussion that Chamindra and I started long time ago on a different list.

There are different methods to develop ontology collaboratively, and I
am tempted to suggest that we start working on our task with the
adequate methodological
approach, so that we can achieve the best possible result in
time,given the resources. By avoiding the use of the word ontology we
are avoding entering in the crux of the matter/

search for 'collaborative ontology'

Two efforts that I am marginally familiar with are
view based ontology,
http://www.myontology.org/

and there are others

This would enable us to produce deliverables that can be used by
everyone  without necessarily having to agree on things

Thoughts?

-- 
Paola Di Maio

Received on Sunday, 10 August 2008 15:43:05 UTC