RE: [regrep] Interest in Ontology Process Control Subcommittee

["Zachary Alexander" <zack2003@ebtdesign.com>]

Joe,

Currently, the ebXML Family of standards handle XML content in a payload
neutral manner. Is that a design decision or is that a best practice?
Can a design decision or best practice that is codified in either a
defacto or normative manner be called a standard?

Zachary Alexander
The IT Investment Architect 
ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:11 PM
To: Zachary Alexander
Cc: 'ebXML Regrep (ebXML Regrep)'
Subject: Re: [regrep] Interest in Ontology Process Control Subcommittee

This sounds to me like more "best practices", if anything, than
"registry standards". The information in your anecdote reminds me
somewhat of a governance board-type function (citing term "process
control"), if I am now understanding it correctly.

Joe

Zachary Alexander wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> 
> There is a lot of collateral technology required to support
ontologies.
> Some of these technologies are in their infant 1.0 stage and others
are
> proprietary. All are specific to the ontology community not the
registry
> community.
> 
> I think that the standards should address how to open up the registry
in
> a logic system neutral manner without concentrating on how the
ontology
> developers will use it. I think that there should be the potential for
a
> clear separation of effort between registry developers and ontology
> developers. Developers should not have to know both disciplines.
> 
> Anecdote: I spent sometime talking with the Netscape LDAP directory
> developers back in 1999 and I asked them how their directories were
> being used. They said that they couldn't tell me definitively.  They
> said that LDAP developers kept coming up with new ways to use their
> directories. I see the Ontology Process Control Subcommittee as a
means
> of facilitating the same kind of creativity.
> 
> Zachary Alexander
> The IT Investment Architect
> ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325
> http://www.ebTDesign.com | http://www.p2peconomy.com |
> http://www.itinvestmentvehicle.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@bah.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:09 PM
> To: Zachary Alexander
> Cc: 'ebXML Regrep (ebXML Regrep)'
> Subject: Re: [regrep] Interest in Ontology Process Control
Subcommittee
> 
> Zachary Alexander wrote:
> >
> > RegRep Team,
> >
> > Is there any interest in starting an Ontology Process Control
> > Subcommittee? This subcommittee would develop registry standards for
> > supporting process control ontology engineering.
> 
> Could you perhaps elaborate as to exactly what such standards would
> address?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> > The effort would
> > produce an ebXML Registry standard that will be ontology
> representation
> > neutral. Description Logics may not provide the most robust means of
> > specifying processes. OWL DL is based on Description Logics.
However,
> > there are a number of logic systems (i.e., Modal Logic, Temporal
> Logic,
> > and Paraconsistent Logic). Use of one logic system versus another
> could
> > provide competitive advantage.  This subcommittee would have as its
> > charter the concept of Logic System Neutrality.
> >
> > Zachary Alexander
> > The IT Investment Architect
> > ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325
> > http://www.ebTDesign.com | http://www.p2peconomy.com |
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> >
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