On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:12:35PM -0800, Kenneth Fields wrote: (01)
> .... to turn a wiki into an ontology authoring tool maybe.
> Seems natural. NewClass simply makes a new class
> in your ontology. We need a quick open methodology for
> going to a site with your new hot idea and inputing your class
> and properties in two seconds. If it could be done from
> your cell phone - all the better :). RSS feed must inform
> the ontology community that the ontology has been updated,
> while 9 or 10 'votes' will confirm that class as validated. (02)
Check out Nooron, which seems to be what you're describing: (03)
http://www.nooron.org/ (04)
Shawn Murphy, Nooron's creator, incorporated Wiki elements in order to
make it easy to edit ontologies. Nooron uses OKBC on the backend. (05)
Can PurpleWiki be modified to be an ontology editing tool? My guess
is yes, but the truth is that I'm not sure. Or, more accurately, I'm
not sure if it's worth it. (06)
I think that Wikis already come close to mapping to a Topic Map model,
as I explain at: (07)
http://www.eekim.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikisAsTopicMaps (08)
However, there is some debate as to whether or not Topic Maps are rich
enough to express "true" ontologies. (There's been some recent
discussion about this very topic on Peter's ontolog mailing list.) (09)
If we take a hardline view on this and say that it is not, then the
question stands: What do we need to do to PurpleWiki (or any Wiki for
that matter) to use it for editing ontologies? And is it worth it? (010)
I personally would like PurpleWiki to become rich enough to express
Topic Maps, but I'm not keen on evolving it to compete with Protege.
I just don't see the value, but perhaps that's because I'm not in the
business of constructing formal ontologies. I'd certainly like to
hear opinions to the contrary, however, and people are also welcome to
show the value of doing this by actually doing it. That's the beauty
of open source. (011)
-Eugene (012)
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