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Re: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org

• To: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org
• From: "ROR" <dev@r...>
• Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:46:23 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

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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