Ontology Summit 2008/Quality and Gatekeeping

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Type	Talk
Title	Quality and Gatekeeping
Location	Gaithersburg, MD
When	2008/04/29 - 2008/04/29
Abstract	discuss quality control issues, there was a debate on how open a repository should be (minimal qulaity requirement or free-submission with certain quality filters when access)
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More Details (out-links) Part of Ontology Summit 2008 Speaker(s) Fabian Neuhaus, Berry Smith What Links Here (in-links)

ontology evaluation

• (note) market driven
• (note) review based
• (comment) metric based

different aspects of openness

• (note) position 1: free to all, no restriction
• (note) position 2: require minimal criteria
• (comment) As long as we track the provenance of ontology, e.g. who contributed an ontology, we should be able to filter ontology. A typical case is use ontologies from highly reputable contributor. similarly, licence. The success of Wikipedia is a proof.
• (comment) proprietary/licence is an important concept,
• (comment) (berry smith) schemaweb.info does not keep a good quality control criterial.

gate keeper(berry)

• (comment) (natasha) criteria are subjective, but peer reviewed publication is a positive example.
• (comment) daml library and schemaWeb are not a fail, it serves a differen purpose.
• (comment) berry raises highly debatable issues on gatekeeper

other

• (discussion) John Sowa mentioned EU provenance project, tracking who contributed data (Provenance of Electronic data)
• (discussion) choosing the position of openness, data not labeled is free, fee can be charged unless data is labeled
• (discussion) we need to put metadata on ontology
• (discussion) (mark) ontoligua is the one that being well used in 90s, because it has a lot of traffic.