Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2008 Communique Draft Review - "Quality and Gatekeeping" Breakout Group
Ref: OntologySummit2008_Communique/Draft
The Team:
- Fabian Neuhaus
- Joanne Luciano (MITRE)
- Amy Davidon (BBN) (?)
- Steve Ray
- Mark Musen
- Pat Cassidy
- Ram D. Sriram
- Amanda Vizedom
- Michael Pendleton (EPA) (?)
- Barry Smith
- PaolaDiMaio
- Bruce Bargmeyer
Results
Ontologies in the OOR must meet these minimum requirements related to openness:
- Submitted in a neutral, publicly described language and format.
- Ontology is readable by everybody.
No minimum requirements related to quality are proposed. Instead we recommend this requirement:
- The OOR registry will enable views based on tags provided by subcommunities that characterize ontologies with respect to their chosen criteria. For example, such a view might select for ontologies for specific fields of research or industries, or for ontologies satisfying specific quality criteria or levels of organizational approval.
Discussion Notes
Openness
Candidates:
- Based on open standards
- Cooperative, transparent process.
- Everybody can participate
- Ontology is accessible to everybody.
- Open source, e.g., Creative Commons Attribute License
Kept:
- Submitted in a neutral, publicly described language and format.
- Ontology is readable by everybody.
Removed:
- Cooperative, transparent process.
- Everybody can participate
- Open source, e.g., Creative Commons Attribute License
Comment on removals: Agreed that removal from the minimum requirements list is not a minimization of importance. All submitted ontologies must have some metadata; it may be that each of these corresponds to some metadata that will be required.
Quality
- The OOR registry will enable views based on tags provided by subcommunities that characterize ontologies with respect to their chosen criteria. For example, such a view might select for ontologies for specific fields of research or industries, or for ontologies satisfying specific quality criteria or levels of organizational approval.