[seek-kr-sms] Update on current and future activities

[Shawn Bowers]

> JM> Observation
> JM> In New Mexico last week Ferdinando showed me some alterations that he
> JM> had made to the observation ontology, to try and make it more
> JM> generic.  Even though there is "almost" a consensus on OBOE, I think
> JM> that it would be very healthy for us to review these changes and see
> JM> how they might improve what we already have.  I'll attach the
> JM> ontology to this email.  I'll also attach one of my flow diagrams;
> JM> although I haven't included all the properties because of crowding
> JM> issues.
>
> BTW, note that the most widely-known (widely used?) ontology, GO, does
> NOT use OWL or XML (or XML Schema) as their primary data format. This
> might be a small but important issue. Is there a description logic
> (latex) version of OBOE? Probably nice to look at (and if not, maybe
> we can reactivate the "Sparrow-to-latex" pretty printer for that purpose.

You can view/edit description logic formulas for OWL-DL using Protege 
(3.2).  There are also ways to view OWL-DL ontologies as UML-like 
diagrams.

-shawn