Re: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

[Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>]

 

This email leads me to think of our own project so far, and what we can do to make sure our true contributions are known to each other....

 

Certainly as the HumanMarkup TC, especially newer members or observers, we should recognize the contributions throughout the last few months establishing the groundwork.

 

Our Phase 0 resources from early on are admittedly scattered (A chronological synopsis due to the group myself).  Thus, the real warehouse of ideas are captured within the contributors who've been with the project.  We should keep in mind and acknowledge the multitude of ideas  that fed into this project from everyone's input, and the most important resources we all have available -- each other.  The upcoming member database will help us in this respect, where we will account for contributions made, and contributions desired, from everyone so far.

 

If you have any other suggestions, please do post.

 

Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Bullard, Claude L (Len)

To: OASIS Comment

Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:33 PM

Subject: Nothing GNU Under the Sun

I was just looking at a folder of papers on my desk that included:

 

"New Elements of a Strategy for Knowlege Sharing and Reuse

 

o  Standardize a canonical form (knowledge interchange format)

o  Define common ontologies (vocabularies of representational

terms with agreed-upon definitions in human and machine

readable forms)

o  Build libraries of ontologies and task-specific reasoning tools

o  Separate knowledge from programs by using a declarative

knowledge representation language

o  Identify general classes and relations underlying application

specific facets

o  Generalize reasoning and problem solving methods"

 

Source?  Semantic web?  Nope.  Berners-Lee?  Nope.

 

The DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort.  Thomas Gruber.

October 1991.   The membership list is a whos who of

AI today.

 

Some things take a long time to mature and when they

do, often other people's names are associated with

the success, but not the long long haul to get the

concepts ready for that success.

 

len