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Hi Jonathan,
Good questions! I think the best way to look at the meaningfuel wiki
is as some sort of "natural selection metadata". Some terms will
vanish after two weeks, other more adequate terms, will live forever.
Similar terms (i.e. from different ontologies) will compete, and here
too, only the most adequate ones will survive.
From time to time we plan to produce a release of the dictionary,
which will only contain those terms that have reached sufficient
stability and maturity.
-Dom
> One of the things I want in a metadata dictionary is stability - I
want
> to make sure that the definitions don't change because someone is
out
> there editing them, or the definition I used when I created the data
may
> have changed by the time someone else tries to get the metadata. How
do
> you provide stability in a Wiki environment?
>
> Also, I imagine people will be adding metadata from different
ontologies
> that may define the same terms differently. Any thoughts on how to
deal
> with merged ontologies in a Wiki environment?
>
> ROR wrote:
>
> >The ROR project ( http://www.rorweb.com ) is happy to introduce
> >Meaningfuel.org ( http://www.meaningfuel.org ).
> >
> >The Meaningfuel.org project is a metadata dictionary that anyone
can
> >edit (sort of a Wikipedia for metadata). Its goal is to build a
> >coherent evolving metadata dictionary for describing anything, by
> >combining new and existing object metadata.
> >
> >This is an experiment, maybe it will fail. But it sure would be
nice
> >to have such a dictionary available, shared by all metadata
> >initiatives.
> >
> >
>
> One of the things I want in a metadata dictionary is stability - I
want
> to make sure that the definitions don't change because someone is
out
> there editing them, or the definition I used when I created the data
may
> have changed by the time someone else tries to get the metadata. How
do
> you provide stability in a Wiki environment?
>
> Also, I imagine people will be adding metadata from different
ontologies
> that may define the same terms differently. Any thoughts on how to
deal
> with merged ontologies in a Wiki environment?
>
> Jonathan
>
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