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Hi Nathan,
Absolutely. For now a regular wiki (a la Wikipedia) is fine. But we'll
probably move to a more structured wiki at some point.
Thanks,
-Dom
> 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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