An OWLED W3C Community Group?
At OWLED today, I proposed that we form a W3C Community Group. They goal is to support the activist part of the OWLED mission.
OWLED was founded in order to push OWL forward. The subtitle is Experiences (what we’ve learned) and Directions (where we want to go). We founded it because there was a bit of “OWL fatigue” at the W3C and we didn’t want OWL 1 to be the last word on OWL.
Also, at the time, the W3C wasn’t well set up to do the kind of nurturing of the infrastructure and state of deployed art we wanted to do. Formal standards aren’t the last word in any technical community: We can have rough, bottom up, effective, de facto standardization if we set up the right incentive structures.
The room was receptive so I pushed the button and we now have a proposed group! We need 4 more people with W3C accounts to push the button and then the group is ago.
As[While] I cannot coerce WordPress to embed a PDF, I’ll just also provide a link to my pitch talk for the CG.
We’ll be talking about possible projects over the next 1.5 days. Feel free to drop me a line if you have an idea!
Update: We now have 6 supporters, so the group will be created! Hurray!
Event announcement: Introduction to Implementing Ontologies in OWL
11 & 12 July 2011, Manchester
This two-day introductory ‘hands-on’ workshop aims to provide attendees with both the theoretical foundations and practical experience to begin building OWL ontologies using the latest version of the Protégé-OWL tools (Protege4). It is based on Manchester’s well-known “Pizza tutorial” (see http://www.co-ode.org).
More information can be found on NorthWest e-Health.
The great owl.cs reboot
The website for OWL at Manchester was looking a little creaky, so we banded together to do a complete overhaul. The first good move was to migrate to a content management system (in our case, WordPress). The second good move was to update all our WebApps to the latest OWL API. A bit of reorg and writing and you have the lovely site you see before you.