ppy/IEEE-SUO-WG_acct-from-JmSchoening_20151013b.txt Compiled maining from the following message and subsequent exchanges. From: "Schoening, James R CIV USARMY RDECOM CERDEC (US)" To: Peter P Yim Subject: RE: IEEE SUO WG [was: Heidelburg Meeting, etc.] Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:41:44 +0000 Message-ID: > [ppy] Jim, can you recall what lead to the formation of the IEEE SUO WG effort [JamesSchoening] If my memory holds true, I would say the 1999-11-18 meeting at Stanford, plus the 1998-06 Heidelberg workshop in Germany, inspired me to start SUO. I was not at either of those meetings, but I heard about them at a meeting at the university in Marina Del Ray, CA. Bob Spillers explained the concept from those meetings of a core, or reusable, or upper ontology. Chris Welty, who was there too, explained how existing ontologies could be merged. Bob was seeking major funding to build this ontology, but I suggested forming a standards group to do so, which I initiated and chaired for about 6 years. [That was the IEEE SUO WG.] It grew to 88 voting members and logged 25,000 postings, but never came close to building consensus around a given ontology. I was able to obtain government funding for Teknowledge (Adam Pease) to build the SUMO ontology, but it never got consensus in SUO either. The mailing list is essentially one and the same as The IEEE P1600.1: Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO WG) Effort (i.e. the IEEE-SUO-WG.) It started on 2000-06-05 and was operational (although not very active) until mid-2011. See the 2001 ICJAI paper "Origins of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology" by Ian Niles and Adam Pease (Teknowledge) [available at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/community/historic-archives/IEEE-SUO-WG/Origins-of-the-IEEE-SUO--IanNiles-AdamPease_IJCAI2001_20010806.pdf ] Some of the IEEE-SUO-WG website pages can be found at the Internet Archives, like: - http://archive.is/ASB4 - http://web.archive.org/web/20140513052637/http://suo.ieee.org/SUO/howToParticipate.html -- edited by: Peter P Yim / 2015.11.14 http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PeterYim