[xtm-wg] Open Source Ontology project

[bryan@cog-tech.com]

Hello,

Guy Lukes (lukesg@frb.gov) and I (bryan@cog-tech.com) are interested
in developing an extensible ontology / topic map to describe open
source projects.  Eventually we see this as a knowledge management
tool to support the search for, and coordination, of expertise and
information on open source projects.

In particular I would like to solicit the advice of the current
technology developers and users.  We are looking for:

	(a) software that we can use to store and serve topic maps.

	(b) a web interface that we can expose so that people can
	    browse the resulting topic map.

	(c) a web interface that we can expose so that people can
	    populate a topic map with instances (e.g., describing
	    the projects that they know).  This transforms the
	    description of the open source projects itself into an
	    open source project.

	(d) eventually, exposing the topic map ontology for the
	    description of open source projects so that it can be
	    extended by knowledgable parties in a community process.
	    Ideally the different communities would each come together
	    and identify and extension of the basic project
	    description ontology that was suited to that class of
	    project (e.g., extensions to cope with the description
	    of databases, inference engines, etc.)

What is the state of the art here?  Ideally this project would be
developed with open source software, but we would be willing to
conduct the project using closed software as well (any offers?).  I
might suggest that this project, if successful, would have a fairly
high profile and could create some practical interest in topic maps
within a broad and informed community.

-bryan thompson
bryan@cog-tech.com


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