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Brainstorming Results: Leaders needed

All,

	Leaders are now needed.  Below are the results of the
brainstorming session, so we now need volunteers to lead some or all of
these efforts. (If you would like to just participate, please wait for
the leaders to call for help, and please hold off on discussing these
topics until the leaders kick them off.)  

	Please respond with any item you are willing to lead, or help
lead.  New topics are still welcome.

	We also need volunteers for the following:

		Webmaster

		Coordinator of formal discussion topics

		Chair (I suggest we postpone electing a Chair until we
see what activities get rolling.)

Brainstorming Results

Projects:

P1. Prepare and present something at spring Ontology Summit at NIST.

P2. Co-sponsor a conference or meeting.

P3. How about a prototype test or two? One test would [be to] design an
ontology to ... See
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html

P4. How about a technology-free upper ontology.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html

P5. How about choosing a way of computing the semantic distance between
any two ontologies and identifying the features of each that cause the
distance(s).   http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13434.html

P6. Technology/Culture-driven "Thirdness" Practice
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13435.html

P7. Set up an online testbed.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13438.html

P8. Evalute ontologies built automatically by ontology learning systems
or mapping/ integrating tools.

Discussion Topics:

D1. Separate computer science ontology from philosophical ontology.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13436.html 

D2. Advantages/inconvenients of two knowledge/ontology sharing methods:
   - independently authoring and publishing (small) ontologies
   - allowing the collaborative update of a (large) ontology
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html

D3. Lexical guidelines for naming concepts and relations?
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html

D4. All postings to the Ontology list-server should be stated in the
terms of general systems.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13433.html

D5. Start from what is most fundamental to the SUO:  What is its subject
matter: the world of things; the universe of concepts; or the domain of
master  terms ? If it is the real world, then what is its basic features
and contours or which ways are its things?
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13437.html

D6. What are the key categories and meanings of reality, its standard
ontology, and how should they be represented by  semantic technology and
knowledge systems?
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13437.html

D7. What languages are better than OWL for developing ontologies, and
what are their pros and cons?   

D8. Essence and need to have standard ontologies and ways of creating
flexible ontologies for a flexible changing micro world.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13439.html

D9. Determine what enables current systems to interoperate and what more
would be useful.  http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13441.html
and http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13442.html and
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13443.html 

Adminstrative:
 
A1. Update the http://suo.ieee.org web site  (Webmaster or web team
needed.)

A2. Use a semantic wiki in addition to the mailing list
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg13432.html


	Please post any offers to lead, or help lead, any of the above
topics.  

Jim Schoening