RE: [xml-dev] Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org

["Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)" <natyoung@cisco.com>]

It looks like each topic is like a class or an object of some kind?  And
then within the topic fields or attributes are specified?

I really wonder if wiki is a good sructure to use for modelling meta
data.  If you want to have a meta data repository that people can
contribute to, I think you may need to provide more structure.

----->Nathan

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Nathan Young
CDC Site Dev->Interface Development Team
A: ncy1717
E: natyoung@cisco.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ROR [mailto:dev@rorweb.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:46 PM
> To: Jonathan Robie
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki 
> - meaningfuel.org
> 
> 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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