Monthly Archives: February 2005

UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

Is ICANN up to the job of managing Internet domain naming policies and indeed other key issues of the Internet’s infrastructure and use? The second World Summit on the Information Society, due to be held in Tunis 15-19 November 2005, … Continue reading

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Navigate the SUMO Entity Subclass Hierarchy Tree

Entity Subclass Hierarchy Tree, or Suggested Upper Merged Ontology

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Ontology of People Concepts

Ontology of People Concepts used in the CIA World Fact Book 2002, mainly covering languages and human language concepts, including sign languages

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Ontology of Government Concepts

: “Ontology of Government Concepts Used in the CIA World Fact Book 2002″

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Translation of SUMO into OWL/RDF

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Ontology Portal – The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)

Ontology Portal – The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)

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Who needs data standards in local government? (IDABC conference second day)

Alasdair Mangham from the London Borough of Camden brought home the need for standards in local government: despite more and more local administrations providing “live event management” type services on the Web, they noted that there was no common list … Continue reading

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Open International Forum on Business Ontology

I participated for the first time in a meeting of this forum (with Duane Nickull as guest speaker), to discuss the semantic and ontology issues related to the recently launched initiative in OASIS, setting up a new Technical Committee scoped … Continue reading

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A blessing and a curse

In his summing up of the first day of the IDABC Conference, acting Head of Unit in the European Commission service responsible for the programme, Bernhard Schnittger, has put his finger on a key problem in European level work regarding … Continue reading

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Does the European Union have a legal basis to act on eGovernment initiatives?

Several speakers at the IDABC Conference (17-18 February 2005) highlighted a missing piece of the eGovernment puzzle in Europe: although national administrations have wide and diverging mandates to act ion the field of eGovernment (whether it be on eService certification, … Continue reading

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