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

[Sebastian Faubel]

I absolutely agree. Actually I support the idea of having OSCAF taking
care of NEPOMUK.

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 11:41 +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> [replying to multiple concerns at once]
> 
> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 12:16:13 Sebastian Faubel wrote:
> > In my opinion NEPOMUK project has produced remarkable results. The name
> > is known to many people and there has been a lot of marketing for it - i
> > think of the nice logo icons on the soprano site.. ;) We should not
> > throw that away.
> >
> > Personally, I think we should stick to the name and start working on
> > existing tickets. I bet we'd get support from many people for this.
> > Since there's movement towards the Semantic Desktop also on GNOME we
> > need to maintain these desktop ontologies collaboratively. What's wrong
> > with the oscaf repository Leo has created?
> 
> That might be true for small projects that are producing code. (And even those 
> need, as they grow, organisational backing).
> 
> This is about maintaining and developing a standard set of ontologies to be 
> shared across different users / projects / applications / desktops. The OSCAF 
> foundation has been set up by NEPOMUK participants (KDE is among them) and its 
> goals align with those of KDE. OSCAF as the keeper of these ontologies would 
> make a lot of sense in my books.
> 
> That has of course nothing to do with technicalities such as hosting. IMO the 
> logo can still be used, it's very nice, it's visually not tied to NEPOMUK (the 
> name) but to semantics (the concepts) and it's recognizable and beautiful.
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