addressing the gap

need input please...

During last week's conversation, Chamindra suggested that I try to
contribute som thought towared ethodology to do gap analysis. I ll be happy
to spare a few hours of work, as I have time allocated next week in fact, to
pinning some some of these vocabularis issues, as I am scheuled to meet for
a vocamp. Given the lack of direct input on classes/properties of our model
from this group so far, I ll take an arbitrary stab and circulate the
suggestions so that they can be amended /improved.

I see the question of the 'gap analysis' in parallel to the vocabulary
alignment exercise. If however I am asked to advise on what method would be
best to carry out gap analysis, there are a few issues that need to be
defined

1) what gap? there are a lot of gaps. I concern myself here with the
'semantic gap' (conceptual,linguistic) that is both part of, and cause of, a
'pragmatic gap'. (operational).
So we should come up with a way to bridge a lexical distance between
different operating communities, to facilitate their operational
integration. is that so? is thre any other gap that we should study?

2) from what I understand, we do not have a vocabulary of reference, but we
are trying to come up with one, is that so?

send me any additional guidelines and thoughts, I expect to be trying to
work on this week around 15 -16 april

if I don get inputs I ll come up with my best bet based on what discussed so
far

OUTPUT?
I ll have a flat list of candidate definitions, an attempt to code them into
basic RDF using knoodl once I work out how to do these domain/range thing
(anyone can help me working out the pairs?)  and a couple of paragraphs
about methodology/strategy suggestions
on how this is being accomplished and where it should go etc. is this what I
am expected to do with this task?


thanks

PDM








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