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RE: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org

• To: "Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)" <natyoung@c...>
• Subject: RE: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org
• From: "ROR" <dev@r...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:19:23 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

Hi Nathan,

Absolutely. For now a regular wiki (a la Wikipedia) is fine. But we'll 
probably move to a more structured wiki at some point. 

Thanks,

-Dom 


> It looks like each topic is like a class or an object of some kind?  
And
> then within the topic fields or attributes are specified?
> 
> I really wonder if wiki is a good sructure to use for modelling meta
> data.  If you want to have a meta data repository that people can
> contribute to, I think you may need to provide more structure.
> 
> ----->Nathan
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> Nathan Young
> CDC Site Dev->Interface Development Team
> A: ncy1717
> E: natyoung@c...  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ROR [mailto:dev@r...] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:46 PM
> > To: Jonathan Robie
> > Cc: xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: Re:  Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki 
> > - meaningfuel.org
> > 
> > Hi Jonathan,
> > 
> > Good questions! I think the best way to look at the meaningfuel 
wiki 
> > is as some sort of "natural selection metadata". Some terms will 
> > vanish after two weeks, other more adequate terms, will live 
forever. 
> > Similar terms (i.e. from different ontologies) will compete, and 
here 
> > too, only the most adequate ones will survive.
> > 
> > From time to time we plan to produce a release of the dictionary, 
> > which  will only contain those terms that have reached sufficient 
> > stability and maturity.
> > 
> > -Dom
> > 
> > 
> > > One of the things I want in a metadata dictionary is stability - 
I 
> > want 
> > > to make sure that the definitions don't change because someone 
is 
> > out 
> > > there editing them, or the definition I used when I created 
> > the data 
> > may 
> > > have changed by the time someone else tries to get the 
> > metadata. How 
> > do 
> > > you provide stability in a Wiki environment?
> > > 
> > > Also, I imagine people will be adding metadata from different 
> > ontologies 
> > > that may define the same terms differently. Any thoughts on how 
to 
> > deal 
> > > with merged ontologies in a Wiki environment?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > ROR wrote:
> > > 
> > > >The ROR project ( http://www.rorweb.com ) is happy to introduce 
> > > >Meaningfuel.org  ( http://www.meaningfuel.org ). 
> > > >
> > > >The Meaningfuel.org project is a metadata dictionary that 
anyone 
> > can 
> > > >edit (sort of a Wikipedia for metadata). Its goal is to build a 
> > > >coherent evolving metadata dictionary for describing anything, 
by 
> > > >combining new and existing object metadata. 
> > > >
> > > >This is an experiment, maybe it will fail. But it sure would be 
> > nice 
> > > >to have such a dictionary available, shared by all metadata 
> > > >initiatives.
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > 
> > > One of the things I want in a metadata dictionary is stability - 
I 
> > want 
> > > to make sure that the definitions don't change because someone 
is 
> > out 
> > > there editing them, or the definition I used when I created 
> > the data 
> > may 
> > > have changed by the time someone else tries to get the 
> > metadata. How 
> > do 
> > > you provide stability in a Wiki environment?
> > > 
> > > Also, I imagine people will be adding metadata from different 
> > ontologies 
> > > that may define the same terms differently. Any thoughts on how 
to 
> > deal 
> > > with merged ontologies in a Wiki environment?
> > > 
> > > Jonathan
> > > 
> > 
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