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[smila-dev] Future management of NEPOMUK NIE ontologies will be handled by us within OSCA foundation - forward if needed
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Dear Semantic Desktop and Semantic Indexing Partners,
(this mail is addressed to more people on BCC)
Some of you are part of the Aperture Project,
the eclipse.org/smila project,
the NEPOMUK.kde.org project,
and the dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org projects,
which are united by the goal to bring more semantic features to everyday
applications.
During the last months we have had many discussions about joining forces
and began integrating parts of the software and underlying data formats.
As the very successfull NEPOMUK project is going to end on 31st December
2008,
I want to inform you beforehand what will happen to the Ontologies
developed by it,
which influences the software and our investments into it.
The NIE, PIMO, NAO, and NRL ontologies will be further managed and
hosted by the
OSCA Foundation.
http://www.oscaf.org/
This is an open forum initiated by us (the NEPOMUK members and other
industrial partners)
where we can meet, discuss, and continue our work
based on a legally and financially stable foundation.
For Aperture, SMILA, and KDE, the immediate topic of our business is the
NIE ontology,
http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/nie/
The NEPOMUK Information Element (NIE) Framework is an attempt to provide a
unified vocabulary for describing native resources available on the desktop.
It models Files, Contacts, Multimedia Image and Audio Content,
Calendars, Mails, Messages,
and more.
It is the basis of Aperture and was adopted/extended for KDE,
in the future it will be extended according to your needs by an OSCAF
working group.
http://www.oscaf.org/nie_ontology
I welcome you to join the NIE working group,
I will continue editing the ontology and releasing
new versions until we have set up the working group.
A similar process will happen later for the other ontologies,
NRL, NAO and PIMO.
We are aware of the need to maintain and improve the ontologies,
and to discuss and extend them.
Also you have shown interest in the past in this process and
I know from other standardization bodies (such as UN CEFACT or W3C)
that an open, stable, and documented process for long-term
ontology maintenance is a crucial part of our business -
the documented data formats and programming interfaces
build the basis for our open source and commercial projects.
In the next year, we also plan to submit our work for further
standardization
to W3C or ISO, if you want to be part of this discussion, read on.
To make this happen and make it happen in a way that
you can understand and influence, and control,
I encourage you to learn about OSCAF.
The founding was already announced in a recent Technology Review Article
[1].
You can join the OSCA Foundation as a member to
take part in a growing initiative bringing together organisations and
individuals interested in ensuring interoperability between next
generation desktops and collaborative environments.
http://www.oscaf.org/membership
I also want to introduce you to the OSCA Foundation Coordinator, Sven Ruby.
He will be able to answer all the questions I may not be able to address
in this short mail,
especially about which organisations are already members and who is
planning to join
and how you can join and what benefits it has.
http://www.oscaf.org/contact
For me, the first priority is to assure you that our investments
into NIE and Aperture are safe and stay sable, but on the long term,
OSCAF will be much more for us - a way to stay in touch
about Semantic Business and influence it.
If you think this message may be interesting for your partners,
you are free to forward it.
Wishing you a very nice holiday season,
looking forward hearing from you in the next weeks,
(don't expect fast answers, I am quite busy having a nice holiday
finishing my PhD)
kind regards
Leo Sauermann
p.s.: A lot of thanks to Siegfried Handschuh, Sven Ruby, Stefan Decker,
Ansgar Bernardi
and all the other NEPOMUK members and affiliates who founded OSCAF
[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21840/?a=f
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DI Leo Sauermann http://www.dfki.de/~sauermann
Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer
Kuenstliche Intelligenz DFKI GmbH
Trippstadter Strasse 122
P.O. Box 2080 Fon: +49 631 20575-116
D-67663 Kaiserslautern Fax: +49 631 20575-102
Germany Mail: leo.sauermann@xxxxxxx
Geschaeftsfuehrung:
Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c.mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Vorsitzender)
Dr. Walter Olthoff
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats:
Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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