I have now posted the latest versions of the KIF and
Protege files containing the combined SUMO 1.56 and
Mid-Level ontologies, plus the Invoices concepts
added by Adam Pease and myself. This version
(SMINK006) contains the concept of a "Code" as
suggested for my effort by Adam Pease, and also
contains additional related concepts required for
the interpretation of a "Code" in the context of
the upper ontology.  (01)
 One important consideration is whether we want to
proceed with development of concepts related to
Invoices, Orders, etc. by representing them as
physical objects (pieces of paper, light pulses
on a monitor, magnetic fields on a disk, optical holes
in a CD), or by first ignoring the physical objects and
describe the relations among the documents and their
component parts by treating all of those as abstract
conceptual entities. I think it will be easier and more
understandable to do the latter -- treat these as
conceptual entities -- for now, and deal with the
physical objects when it is necessary (as it
will be at some time.) Most of the distinctions among
texts in the existing SUMO are related to physical documents,
so I have added some classes to the SMINK ontology
to illustrate where I think such abstract documents would
be best located. I have only added the UBL documentation
for these concepts, and have not attempted to put in
the attributes or associations for these document types.
The 8 UBL transaction-related documents will be found
with the names "AbstractInvoice", "AbstractOrder", etc.
as subclasses of "TransactionMessage"
in the SMINK006 ontology (KIF text file samin006.txt).  (02)
 The files available are:
 ftp://micra.com/ontolog/smink006.zip -- the WinZipped Protege
 files for the combined SUMO, Mid-Level,
 and Invoices ontology: SMINK006
 ftp://micra.com/ontolog/skifcore.zip -- the WinZipped Protege
 SKIFcore.* files (3) for the base Protege
 ontology required to import a SKIF file
 using the SKIF tab
 ftp://micra.com/ontolog/skif_tab.jar -- the jar file for the
 SkifTab plugin which will import a SKIF
 file into Protege (if it follows the
 SUMO-SKIF conventions)
 ftp://micra.com/ontolog/samin006.zip -- a zipped text file
 "samin006.txt", which is the
 SKIF-format file for the combined
 SUMO, Mid-Level, and Invoices
 ontologies (the SKIF-text version of
 Protege ontology SMINK006)  (03)
 As usual, I am eager to get any kind of feedback, positive or negative,
about the ontology or its Protege or SKIF representations.
I will also be happy to answer general questions about Protege or the
plugin that converts SKIF to Protege formats.  (04)
 I have not installed Sigma, as I am concentrating what time I can
spare on the Invoices conceptual content and Protege representation.
I would appreciate it if anyone who does have a working Sigma
installed would take the "samin006.txt" file (presumably in
SKIF format) and try to load it in Sigma to see if Sigma
can pick up any syntax or logical errors that I haven't detected.
Likewise with Sevcenko's browser.  (05)
 Pat  (06)
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