DAML (Darpa Agent Markup Language) really appears to speak to many of the
issues I have raised here.
"The goal of the DAML effort is to develop a language and tools to
facilitate the concept of the semantic web. Dr. James Hendler is the DARPA
Program Manager for the DAML initiative."
James Hendler also lead a project called SHOE
http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/
"SHOE is a small extension to HTML which allows web page authors to annotate
their web documents with machine-readable knowledge. SHOE makes real
intelligent agent software on the web possible."
DAML appears to be moving in the direction of embracing OIL (Ontology
Inference Layer) http://www.daml.org/2000/10/daml-oil
"This page attempts to provide information concerning OIL- The Ontology
Inference Layer - from the perspective of a reader interested in DAML and
its evolution. There is an active discussion going on the www-rdf-logic
mailing list concerning the evolution of the DAML ontology language and its
relations to OIL, thus it may be useful to read some background information.
OIL is a language built on a long history of research in description logics.
Description Logic is a subfield of knowledge representation and as such aims
to provide a vehicle for expressing structured information and for reasoning
with the information in a principled manner. Description logics may be
viewed as providing a formal foundation for frame-based systems,
object-oriented representations, semantic data models, and type systems. OIL
is an effort to produce a well defined language for integrating ontologies
with web standards (in particular RDF/RDFS and XML/XMLS). It is a web-based
representation and inference layer for ontologies using the constructs found
in many frame languages and reasoning and formal semantics in description
logics. "
Description logics appear simply as so-called 'frame based systems', an
outgrowth of Ronald Brachman's dissertation 'A Structural Paradigm for
Representing Knowledge' and as actively pursued by Deborah McGuinness
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/
And, OIL appears to be embracing RDF Schemas, which, themselves are now a
topic of cooperative development between the the RDF folks and the XTM (XML
Topic Maps) folks, as announced by Tim Berners-Lee at XML 2000, last
December.
I consider the entire DAML/OIL/RDF/XTM arena of great importance to the
evolution of the OHS project. Add to that notions of Category Theory, C.S.
Pierce, and perhaps thinking in the graph theoretic terms expressed by Cliff
Joslyn, and you have the substrate of a knowledge representation system
suitable for world-class projects, me thinks.
This summer, Stanford University will host a pair of conferences, one on
Description Logics, and one on Conceptual Graphs, a graph-theoretic approach
to the implementation of C.S. Pierce's Existential Graphs, as originally
implemented and documented by John F. Sowa. Interesting coincidence.
Jack
From: Joe D Willliams <altintdev@webtv.net>
> Has anyone heard of this relatively new project?
>
> http://www.daml.org
>
> Best Regards,
> Joe
============================================================================
This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee(s) and may
contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not
the intended recipient, dissemination of this communication is prohibited.
If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies
of the message and its attachments and notify postmaster@verticalnet.com
immediately.
============================================================================
Community email addresses:
Post message: unrev-II@onelist.com
Subscribe: unrev-II-subscribe@onelist.com
Unsubscribe: unrev-II-unsubscribe@onelist.com
List owner: unrev-II-owner@onelist.com
Shortcut URL to this page:
http://www.onelist.com/community/unrev-II
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 09 2001 - 09:54:52 PST