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

[Urho Konttori]

>> 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
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> 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.
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I would definitely like to keep Nepomuk as the ontology name. It is 
already a name that has a lot of backing from high valu players :
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/Participants

Nepomuk is the only viable foundation for semantic desktop ontology.
Nepomuk namespace is already in use in KDE.

Now, as to the OSCAF foundation maintaining the ontology, freedesktop, 
w3c, whatnot, I would also really prefer that there would be one 
ontology that is being pointed to. Having said that, we need to be able 
to make changes to the ontogy in faster pace than it has seemed to be 
happening recently.

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>> 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.
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> _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.
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> Cheers,
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