Semantics IG charter

[Tony Linde]

Hi Roy,

I think you've highlighted the exact reason why we need an Interest Group
separate from the UCD, DM and Registry Work Groups. 

Also, DM think it belongs to them. So, do we fold the UCD group and put it
into the DM group? And since the Registry will *realise* data models,
whether based on ontologies or not, we should move them all under that!
Where do you stop?

Let's keep the IGs for discussion and conceptual work and the WGs for
implementation.

Cheers,
Tony. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Williams [mailto:roy at cacr.caltech.edu] 
> Sent: 02 June 2005 16:40
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: Roy Williams; Semantics
> Subject: Re: Semantics IG charter
> 
> 
> On Jun 2, 2005, at 3:56 AM, Tony Linde wrote:
> 
> > I've been asked by the IVOA Exec to prepare a charter for the 
> > Semantics IG
> 
> Tony
> I think the idea is that Semantics is the new name for UCD.
> 
> Throughout the VO effort, we have been trying to identify 
> "knowledge engineering" tools that can be useful and 
> implementable. The only such effort that has really taken off 
> has been the UCD effort. I would suggest that Semantics and 
> UCD be merged, with the idea that one half is the reality of 
> UCD and the other half is the research area of ontologies etc.
> 
> Roy
> 
>