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Ontology Summit 2008 Communique Draft Review - "Quality and Gatekeeping" Breakout Group

Ref: OntologySummit2008_Communique/Draft

The Team:

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.