Well, what would it mean to say that a Word document was 'open'?
I am not sure I see the analogy, however there would be a loong discussion around a statement above, and related assumptions, but I dont think its central
An ontology is a (document consisting of) a collection of formal
sentences. You can read the document: how much more 'open' can it
get?
The document is a repository, the ontology cosists of formal statements
and thats where the question of 'openness' is key and a major challenge today, in particular in the light of collaborative technologies etc etc
The opennes of the repository is important, however it is secondary to the openness of the statements, (whatever that may mean, require and imply, which needs to be discussed)
Whithout defining the latter, the former cannot be established meaningfully.
pdm
Pat
a repository is only a repository, and
debating its opennes is interesting but
an open ontology, as in 'collaboratively deleveloped, adaptive,
transforming, accessible, usable, multifaceted ontologies are
key challenges to ontology engineering , and open repositories
are only an aspect
looking at the repository as being the answer to the opennes of an
ontology is trivialising
the collective intelligence aspef of ontology engineering, which in my
view comes before
the repository aspect is discussed
PDM
Pat
My early take linked below, I would be happy to share notes on the
work done in this last year, as well as to hear how the work of this
summit is related or differs to the points below
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology
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