Re: SUO: Consensus?
Sounds good to me.
Cathy.
On Tue, 13 May 2003, sowa wrote:
>
> Pat, Jay, Adam, and Robert,
>
> With the recent flurry of notes, I believe we
> can see light at the end of the email tunnel.
>
> 1. Pat made the observation that the joint
> motion is actually a proposal for a new
> ontology, which is based on, but different
> from both:
>
> >> The third ontology will have mappings to SUMO and OpenCyc
> >> and will present an opportunity to test the utility of
> >> the IFF theory for organizing multiple ontologies,
> >> and an opportunity for those who would prefer not to
> >> use either SUMO or OpenCyc to try to create something
> >> better than either (whether better for some specific
> >> purpose or better in being able to map more precisely
> >> to more ontologies).
> >
> >
> 2. Jay supported that idea and suggested that we call it
> SUM -- Standard Upper Meta-ontology. But we should
> probably get the letter L in there for "Library".
> We can leave that as a challenge for the acronym
> hackers.
>
> 3. Then Adam proposed that we all support joint motion
> as well as the SUMO motion, but if so, I suggest we
> also ask John D. to reintroduce the OpenCyc motion:
>
> > If this is the intent, and you'll vote for the
> > SUMO motion as well as the combined motion, then
> > I would be willing to support the combined motion
> > also, but only if you'll also endorse the SUMO motion.
>
> 4. Finally, Robert strongly endorsed the joint motion
> and pledged to work closely with both the SUMO and
> OpenCyc groups.
>
> Summary: Let's take advantage of this willingness
> to cooperate by all of us agreeing to support three
> motions -- one for OpenCyc, one for SUMO, and one for
> the joint library using a methodology based on IFF.
> Then all three candidate projects (OpenCyc, SUMO,
> and IFF) would have equal status, and they would all
> be partners in developing a joint library of modules.
>
> John Sowa
>
>
>
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