Well stated Stan, but I'd add a third-

3. Effective tool/s for viewing (graph, sub-graph, tables, properties etc.),
add/delete/modify with adaptable governance control (e.g., assigned management
to sub-graph domains), annotate (with full logging of who did what, when and
how...). This is in effect a collaboration tool.

Until we have a tool (preferable to tools) that can be intuitive and effective
for building, managing and deploying /exporting vocabs or ontologies, we will
struggle with this socially and technically tough, but very necessary task. The
social issues are the hardest, but an effective collaboration tool would be a
big help.

A tool that will be readily embraced  by #2 (the domain specialists) seems far
more important than the tools I've seen so far that are embraced by #1 (e.g.
Protégé).

That we don't have a TDWG ontology is an increasing worry.

Lee

Lee Belbin
Geospatial Team Leader
Atlas of Living Australia


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[mailto:tdwg-content-bounces@lists.tdwg.org] On Behalf Of Blum, Stan
Sent: Saturday, 13 November 2010 9:43 AM
To: tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org
Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] Relation of GNA to TDWG vocabularies

Progress on the TDWG ontology seems to require:

1) one or more people with good sense of what can be done with ontologies, both
in the near-term and long-term; and
2) one or more people who understand the way information is partitioned in this
domain and how it could fit together.

I think we have a lot of #2, but not many of #1.

FYI, we have seed money to bring these categories together.

-Stan


On 11/12/10 2:25 PM, "Bob Morris" <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Richard Pyle
> <deepreef@bishopmuseum.org>
> wrote:
>
>> [...] the current status of the TDWG-Ontology efforts.  The Google
>> Code website seems a bit anemic,
>
> Ooh, I love that line.  I think I'll put it in the script of my next
> animation, to be titled: "Alpha and Beta discuss the current status of
> of the TDWG-Ontology efforts"
>
> Thanks for correcting the URL.
>
> Bob
>
>
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