[Xesam] An open-source project for desktop ontology maintenance

[Arun Raghavan]

2009/5/4 Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org>:
> Hi guys,
>
> maybe you read my blog about Xesam and Nepomuk[1]. In essence I think we
> should create a new project which will handle the maintenance of the desktop
> ontologies. So far for me this means the Nepomuk ontologies NAO, NIE, and
> PIMO.
> IMHO it makes perfect sense to have a dedicated project for several reasons:
>  * no copies floating around in different project packages
>  * one standard that we agree on (I know this is hard)
>  * one platform for discussion/bugs and general maintenance
>  * One central ontologies package very much like the mimetype package

This sounds perfect.

> I mentioned in my blog that we already created the OSCAF sourceforge
> project[2]. Now I don't really care how we name the project. Maybe OSCAF is
> not the best name, maybe something very simple like "desktop-ontologies" would

I would say that we should reuse one of Xesam or Nepomuk for this. Why
add one more buzz-word to an already crowded namespace? :) Besides, it
makes it easier to associate the ontology with the project, then.

> be better. In any case I think using sourceforce (I prefer it since I already
> have 3 projects there and was always happy with it) or something similar is a
> good idea. We then don't need to spend time on setting up task tracking
> systems or mailing lists. We just use what is there.

_If_ we agree to keep this effort under the head of Nepomuk or Xesam,
I guess we can just reuse the existing infrastructure?

Thanks for taking the initiative on this -- I think it'd be great if
we could all quickly converge on how we want to proceed from here, and
get the ball rolling.

Cheers,
-- 
Arun Raghavan
(http://arunraghavan.net/)
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