[Xesam] oscaf/xesam ontology merge: who is going to maintain/edit what?

[Ivan Frade]

Hi all,

Count me in for the maintenance of the ontologies. One important point is to
move the things fast, so a responsive maintainer is vital (an active guy or
more than one maintainer).

I can act as co-maintainer of NFO (help from original authors welcome). I
wouldn't take more ontologies unless necessary, because i plan to
propose/maintain some extensions we have here on the queue.

I would like to discuss NID3 and NEXIF (and probably NCAL).

About tracking systems, i feel more confortable with bugzilla, and allows
pretty complex queries (if custom reports are needed). We have a bugzilla
already in freedesktop, and we can copy the currently open tickets there by
hand; we can keep the old bugzilla for reference, and indicate clearly that
it is closed and all the new bugs should be reported in the new bugzilla.

So the tools are:

IRC: #xesam in freenode
Mailing list: this one (xesam at lists.freedesktop.org)
Bugtracking: bugzilla in freenode (* just proposed *)

Publishing of the drafts:
The ontologies and documentation should be in the freedesktop git repository
(if it exists) or XESAM web server. And i wonder how to do the refreshing of
the web pages. Any idea about this? Who is the web master in FDO? Can we use
the original nepomuk scripts for that? is it java? python? bash? can we run
then in the freedesktop server? what about using the XESAM server for this?
Mikkel, ping?

Regards,

Ivan


On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Philip Van Hoof <spam at pvanhoof.be> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 20:14 +0200, Roberto Guido wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:18 +0200, Leo Sauermann wrote:
> > > I would like to know the names of people who
> > > feel responsible to work for the quality. I would like to see an
> > > ontology maintainer/editor for each ontology.
> > >
> > Here I am: after so many criticism, I'm curious to follow the game as
> > near as possible. I candidate myself for NMO.
>
> Note that NMO will be among the most difficult to maintain as me and
> Evgeny Egorochkin have already made quite a bit of changes to it, that
> will somehow have to be upstreamed.
>
> You can find a TTL of the NMO as how we'll need it here:
>
> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/tracker/tree/data/ontologies/34-nmo.ontology
>
> > Pro:
> > - enough time to follow evolution of discussions
> > - supported by an italian company involved in semantic free software
> > development (and perhaps next OSCAF member ;-) )
> >
> > Cons:
> > - little experience in maintainance of large projects, so a mentor would
> > be appreciated at least in the beginning
>
> I'm sure Evgeny Egorochkin will help you with that, wont you Phreedom?
>
> > Waiting for comments.
> >
> > > Please give me an account and point me to the "welcome to freedesktop"
> > > page explaining how things work
> > >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests
> >
> > I also would need an account, but I remember someone in this list
> > already mentioned some action in Freedesktop to obtain resources about
> > ontologies development hosting: any news?
>
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