[foaf-dev] Fwd: Time is right to restart Person Ontology project

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From: <[email protected]>
Date: 1 July 2011 05:30
Subject: Time is right to restart Person Ontology project
To: standard-upper-ontology-JX7+OpRa80QXH/KnahHreti2O/[email protected]


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All,

The timing appears right to restart the effort to develop a Person Ontology
to support the Personal Data Service (PDS) movement.  Please consider
joining this collaborative initiative.

   PDS is a major movement to enable individuals to gain control of their
own data and identities.  One emerging technical solution
(Higgins) includes a 'Persona Ontology' as part of their broader identity
solution.

This project is based on the premise that a Person Ontology is important
enough to be a separate standard, developed and championed by its own
focused community (that's us).   Of course, a Person Ontology is only one
piece of the ecosystem, so we will work with other PDS innovators to ensure
the pieces fit together.

A separate and supporting Upper Ontology is also needed, which will allow
vendors to extend their ontologies from the same Upper Ontology that the
Person Ontology is extended from.   This will enable better data
interoperability (and even inferencing) between an individual's PDS and
vendor applications.   This will not be an effort to create an Upper
Ontology for all purposes, but rather will start small and focus on meeting
bottom-up requirements from this use-case.  It could potentially expand to
other uses, but that is not the focus at this time.

Please review the Person Ontology wiki site at http://person-ontology.org.
To join this effort, subscribe to our mailing list by either sending me an
email or following the instructions at
http://www.person-ontology.org/how-to-participate.  I'll then add
subscribers as editors for the wiki.

Regards,

Jim Schoening
Global Research, Inc. (Non-Profit)
http://gri3.org
 [email protected]




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