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OOR: Vision vs. Current State. Mike Dean mdean@bbn.com Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel on OOR Sandbox and OOR Requirements - Comparative Analysis 15 October 2009. Slides from the Ontology Summit 2008 Roadmap. Interleaved with some reflections. OOR Is …. An open source software platform
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OOR: Vision vs. Current State Mike Dean mdean@bbn.com Joint Ontolog-OOR Panel on OOR Sandbox and OOR Requirements - Comparative Analysis 15 October 2009
Slides from the Ontology Summit 2008 Roadmap Interleaved with some reflections
OOR Is … An open source software platform 1 or more public instantiations of that platform A sustainable organization (Lots of potential parallelism here)
We’ve largely accomplished these • Sustainability remains an issue • Alignment with BioPortal and submitted proposals helps in the short- to mid-term • User support will hopefully help beyond that
Apache-like Software Platform • Architectural framework (internal APIs, core representation standards, processing pipeline) • A few core modules (basic registry, GUI, web service interfaces, …) • Lots of optional modules (pick and choose when instantiating) • Quality and gatekeeping (basic checks, usage-based, community ranking, curation, etc.) • Languages (OWL, RDFS, Common Logic, UML, SKOS, etc.) • Mapping and translation • Federation (bi-directional, one way) • Repository (expanded persistence) • Editing (access control, versioning) • Encapsulations of existing ontology services • …
I think selection of different modules is still viable • Perhaps using different mechanisms, e.g. Enterprise Service Bus vs. Java interfaces • Michael Gruninger’s CL work is a great example of multiple language support • Availability of the BioPortal installation instructions is also helpful • We should try to reengage with the XMDR folks, perhaps as an example of federation
Bottom Line • The current OOR state is consistent with the vision from Ontology Summit 2008 • But differs a bit in the implementation details • It also seems to be consistent with the Ontology Summit 2008 Communique