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Subject: Re: [regrep] Interest in Ontology Process Control Subcommittee
Chiusano Joseph wrote: >This sounds to me like more "best practices", if anything, than >"registry standards". > +1 >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 | >>>http://www.itinvestmentvehicle.com >>> >>> >>>To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster >>> >>> >>of the OASIS TC), go to >>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgr >>oup.php. >> >>To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of >>the OASIS TC), go to >>http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgr >>oup.php. >> >>To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgroup.php. >> >> > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/regrep/members/leave_workgroup.php. > > > -- Regards, Farrukh
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