Re: EU FP Ontology projects

BlankLeo,
Thank you for your reference. It must be a quality project if relied on your works. 
I guess the PIMO ontology, http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/11/01/pimo/pimo_data.rdfs, is the last version. 
It lists the ontology classes in alphabetical order: agent, association,..., building, city, class(or)thing, class(or)thing(or)property(or)association,..., collection,..., even,..., organization,..., person, persongroup,..., process concept,..., thing, topic. 
Association means relationship? If yes, isn't it a key ontology property?
There is the template structure used for each class: superclass/suclass; domain/range, description/instances. Wonder if there is a single hierarchy connecting the PIMO classes and properties? Thanks.

Azamat Abdoullaev
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leo Sauermann 
  To: Azamat 
  Cc: 'SW-forum' 
  Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 4:32 PM
  Subject: Re: EU FP Ontology projects


  Hi

  shameless self-ad:
  Maybe you should look at the contribution from the NEPOMUK project FP6-027705,
  we created ontologies (I am co-author of many of them) for knowledge worker data sources (email, files, contacts, addressbook) by improving the existing w3c ontologies. 
  they are here:
  http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/
  project:
  http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/

  and some of these have been embedded in the KDE 4.0/Linux platform, leading to a very big deployment
  of RDF on desktop computers - the strigi/soprano search-engine of KDE4.0 was based by us on RDF and ontologies - big exposure to the public.
  http://nepomuk.kde.org/

  they are now managed here:
  www.oscaf.org

  NOKIA (who were NOT project partners!) say about our ontologies:
  ===
  "We examined the NEPOMUK ontologies and found that they are a well suited for our plans for the Nokia Maemo platform (www.maemo.org) based next generation internet enabled mobile devices. 

  We are developing a mobile semantic content storage and retrieval solution that uses NEPOMUK as its base ontology. 
  We are in the process of adapting and extending the ontologies and pushing the changes to be part of the NEPOMUK standards. 

  The recommendations created as standards by the NEPOMUK project are a solid foundation for the semantic mobile content solutions we are working on."

  Urho Konttori 
  Project Manager 
  Nokia - Maemo Desktop Data 
  ===

  I can also comment on the NeOn statement below:
  we used ontologies as data standards. very pragmatic, very time-intensive to do, but it solved some itch that was there. Key is the business case - if someone is willing to pay for an ontology, you have a higher chance to get it done.
  second to that: test-data. have testdata at hand, examples of information, which you want to express
  in your ontology. (use cases, requirements, etc).
  imho only third comes the decision if you want to reuse, integrate, go LOD, or similar.

  hth
  Leo

  It was Azamat who said at the right time 27.02.2009 12:53 the following words: 
    Dear All,

    Making a review, I am looking for the full listing of FP6/FP7 ontology-centered semantic technology projects: 
    1. ESSI or STI Projects (Knowledge Web, SUPER, TripCom).
    [The mission of STI International  - Semantic Technology Institute International - is to establish Semantics as a core pillar of modern computer engineering.]
    2. ONTORULE project.
    [The objective of ONTORULE is to integrate all the required pieces of knowledge and technology to allow the acquisition of ontologies and rules from the most appropriate sources, including natural language documents]
    3. NeOn project.
    [Our aim is to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications in the distributed organizations. Particularly, we aim at improving the capability to handle multiple networked ontologies that exist in a particular context, are created collaboratively, and might be highly dynamic and constantly evolving.] 
    Which else is promising integrative frameworks, models, methods, techniques, or tools ? 
    I'd appreciate any extension to the short list: web sites, general documents, deliverables, research papers, etc.

    Also, if anybody could comment on the NeOn methodolody: 
    "Most of the existing practices for the development of ontologies focus on a single ontology, on a global consistency of such an ontology, and, in principle, on a linear development. This is very restrictive– it is as if we all communicated in a single language and completely disregarded our cultural or historical specifics. Single ontology means single viewpoint on the problems, situations and solutions. If in our everyday life we use many different viewpoints, why can't designers of semantic applications and engineers developing knowledge models do the same? In NeOn, we see several dimensions, in which the existing single-ontology style of work need to be enriched:...", http://www.neon-project.org/web-content/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=23
    Thanks.
    Azamat Abdoullaev
    http://www.eis.com.cy

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