Re: ANN: myOntology Prototype Available

Hi Peter:

There are two things on that topic:

First,  myOntology relies heavily on a) bundling user engagement in one 
focal point (same as Wikipedia bundles a million views, a million eyes, 
and a million of small edits) instead of spreading the contribution of 
human intelligence and jugment over many sites. We assume that the 
definitions of elements get better - more well-thought, more reusable, 
and backed up by stronger community consensus if many people use the 
same site.

Note that one can define ontology "views" in myOntology, which are sets 
of elements defined anywhere in the system that contain only those ones 
you need for a particular purpose.

Second, myOntology uses background mechanisms that help the community to 
spot redundancies, point to elements that should be consolidated or that 
are contradicting etc. Such is much easier if the continuous analysis 
takes place in a single system. At some point in time, we may extend it 
to a P2P architecture, but for the moment, one single place seems to be 
the best option.

Also, note that myOntology is a quite complex Web application that won't 
install easily on a local machine.

Best
Martin

Peter Krantz wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@uibk.ac.at 
> <mailto:martin.hepp@uibk.ac.at>> wrote:
>
>
>     The main problem is that we want to create and maintain a central
>     starting point and namespace for the lots of concept definitions
>     in the Web that have no real home - having dozens of myOntology
>     installations around may collide with this aim.
>
>
> Ah. My idea with such a tool was the complete opposite. By making it 
> easier to install it locally more ontologies could be created and 
> published on the web. From the screenshots it looks like a perfect 
> candidate. I sincerely hope that you will be able to release it under 
> an OSS license.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter

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