Sunday, May 22, 2005
Notational Standards for Ontology referential
bases (Orbs)
Jay,
I have had phone discussions with Amnon and Ken this morning, and am hoping to have a working period with Nathan this afternoon.
I am placing your paper into a folder .
As we move on we may find it of value to create a home page for some of your publications, and related pages for some other scholars of medical informatics.
Stu who is one of a small group who are trying to move the Internet revolution forward from the hills around Austin Texas.
Geoff has developed this wonderful RDF repository and web server development platform. www.intellidimension.com
In my mind today, we are a core group that may make some advances over the next few weeks in the development of an alternative standard for Semantic Mapping Technology (SMT). If these advances can be shown as implemented into a specific software ...designed to use the Intellidimension RDF repository and web server as a back end, and differential ontology framework as a middle layer (transaction) with a visual front end; then OntologyStream may be in line to receive a management structure and investment (within a week or so). (see discussions at the bead thread)
The new bead thread will be a repository of communications sent to us about this new standard.
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/notationalStandards/home.htm
The W3C and the XML movement has created a great deal of confusion about what can be done with the World Wide Web reality, and our ability to use co-occurrence of words, or word stems, or word phrases; as a means to bring information into a situational focus. This movement of information should be as easy as a shift in figure ground in the human perceptual system, and should have reification/validation processes that are subject to human manipulation. Neither Topic Maps nor OWL has this.
The new Ontology referential bases (Orb) standard will allow ontological modeling work from the Topic Maps and from the OWL/RDF constructions to be moved into a more highly functional environment - one that has far fewer controls and ownership issues.
What we need is to establish the relationship between Orb notational standards, data encoding systems, and research literatures in natural science. This has been occurring in the name of the not for profit organization,
www.bcngroup.org
Since 1991.
BCNGroup membership can be developed that reflects the needs of a world wide community. So membership fees can be organized and used by each country to reflect a country's needs and interests. The only constraint is that each National chapter should apply for its charter based on an agreement with the parent organization. We have thought about this for over a decade, and are ready to make a move if others are willing to participate.
The next step, besides the BCNGroup membership expansion, is the identification of a group of code developers who are willing to create software based on the Orb standard and oriented towards proving that human-centric information production (HIP) principles and differential ontology framework principles are now available for the community based management of ontological models over information flows.
The Indian software developer's movement may in fact find this an exciting opportunity, to work with the BCNGroup founding committee and to rapidly develop the Orb standard as a means to organize and control the flow of information via ontological modeling.