Re: [topicmaps-comment] Upper Cyc Ontology Topic Map

[Murray Altheim <m.altheim@open.ac.uk>]

W. Eliot Kimber wrote:

> In the archives I found a reference by Murray Altheim to a topic map of
> the Upper Cyc Ontology and a reference to a location on doctypes.org.
> Unfortunately, doctypes.org no longer exists.
> 
> Does anyone know if this resource is still available and, if so, where
> it is?


If by resource you mean me, I'm in England. :-)

I shut down the doctypes.org site to save some money. Info on Ceryle
will be either posted at my pages at KMi or at altheim.com.

    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ceryle/
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ceryle/docs/index.html
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ceryle/docs/charents.html
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/ceryle/docs/NOTE-apt1.html

[there's not much there quite yet, though. still trying to get all
the documentation organized, hence the lack of public announcement]

The Upper Cyc Ontology topic map(s) were based upon the CycL documents
released as part of the upper ontology. The parser I wrote handled
most of the ontology's syntax, but I never did figure out how to
deal properly with variables. With the opencyc.org project now being
Doug's new avenue, I've downloaded the package but unfortunately the
scripts included with it designed to export the ontology in XML were
written local to somebody's system, so they don't function. I inquired
about this and apparently the fixes are planned for a future release.
I'd rather process the opencyc XML than use a CL file anyway, so I'm
simply waiting until this occurs before I proceed.

Eventually this will be included in the Ceryle project that is part
of my Ph.D. I'll be releasing a first public version pretty soon.
Jack Park and a few other people have an early release and I'd be
happy to send you one if you're interested. I just finished adding
the 16-syntax (!) GNU regexp package to the search and replace
features of the editor last night. Oh, and added the ability to do
plain text tables in Augmented Plain Text (APT, see the APT link above).

I can be reached either at my KMi email address or at murray @ altheim.com.

Murray

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Murray Altheim                  <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/>
Knowledge Media Institute
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