Issues and Strategies

• Need efficient way to learn tools and techniques

• • Issue: The learning curve is quite steep and long-time participants in this effort still don't feel comfortable with basic concepts and specific methodologies

• • Strategy: Identify and/or develop training modules that target key topics

• • • Survey Ontolog / UBL project participants for knowledge gaps

• • • Consolidate to a prioritzed list of training topics

• • • Identify, recruit, and/or draft subject matter experts to help put together training modules (possibly teamed with a recruit to help document the training)

• • • Distribute materials asynchronously where possible. Schedule telecons, where necessary.

• Need agreement on content to write

• • Issue: A critical aspect of formalization is agreement among subject matter experts on what the terms / concepts mean.

• • Strategy: drive agreement prior to the formalization in KIF to enable a broader range of subject matter experts to contribute to the process

• • • Form a group of subject matter experts to review and revise the existing UBL definitions for these terms and concepts

• • • Develop standards and/or quality critieria for these definitions (both their internal structure/expresiveness and consistency across definitions)
      • Look to IEEE (Sowa's) discussions of use of controlled english possibly as a second step (uncontrolled, then controlled, then KIF)

• • • Publish the definitions once they accepted (either individually or as a group)