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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi all,</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I was off traveling for while, socializing some of the ideas
we have been discussing with folks in the Semantic Web community in Europe. I'll
send another message about the potentials for geotagging and other things about
data interoperability that are relevant to us. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It looks like our discussion has stabilized to a point where
we are ready to roll up our sleeves and start putting some points on the
map. We now have some dimensions on which to look at the design issues:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://tagcommons.org/2007/02/28/functional-requirements-for-sharing-tag-data/">use
cases</a> and requirements</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://tagcommons.org/2007/03/02/ontologies-vs-formats-vs-schema-vs-apis/">sharing
mechanisms</a> (DB schema, formats, ontologies, etc.)</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>prior
work (</span></font>Annotea, Newman's tag ontology, the rel=tag microformat)</p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>stakeholders (<a
href="http://lists.tagcommons.org/pipermail/wg-tagcommons.org/2007-March/000057.html">Nitin's
list</a>)</p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>And now things to do:</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>work out a conceptualization, independent of format
or level - just words</p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>analyze how each element of the conceptualization
relates to existing specifications (Annotea, microformats, etc)</p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>-<font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></font>check it against the use cases and other
requirements to look for coverage and gaps</p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>and then move toward consolidating on an agreement.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>So, for the next step I have set up a wiki. I have modeled the wiki
roughly on the excellent <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page">microformats.org</a>
site. (Peter Yim had graciously offered to host the wiki on <a
href="http://ontolog.cim3.net/">his collaboration infrastructure</a>, but I
wanted to reuse as much as I could from microformats.org).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Unfortunately, the default self-service permissions model for wikis
just leads to immediate attack by spam bots. So I had to lock it down to
invitation only, again :-(. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"> </font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I will be creating accounts for all of you who have contributed
anything to the discussion list to date. If anyone else wants an account
on the wiki, please just drop me a line and I will add you right away. If
you have written to this discussion list, expect a weird message from onto-admin@tagcommons.org
sending you a "new password" and link to log in.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>The link to the wiki is</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <a
href="http://tagcommons.org/wiki/">http://tagcommons.org/wiki/</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>and the root of the conceptualization tree is </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> <a
href="http://tagcommons.org/wiki/Tag_Data_Conceptualization">http://tagcommons.org/wiki/Tag_Data_Conceptualization</a></span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Have at it! </span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>tom</span></font></p>
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