[Hplusroadmap] Hitting close to the mark: EXPO

[Bryan Bishop]

http://expo.sourceforge.net/

For an introduction:
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/jw-tmnlpo/RossKing.pdf

EXPO: An Ontology of Scientific Research by Ross D. King & Larisa N. 
Soldatova, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, 
Aberystwyth.

Somebody on the mailing list here, or somewhere else, mentioned this 
group to me a few months ago, and I think I had a look at their 
university website and smiled but didn't investigate further. I wasn't 
aware that they had this GPL'ed EXPO project set up, which deserves 
some mentions and comments. It's basically the same idea as SKDB, in 
that we have societal knowledge of the sorts that we have to derive via 
experimentation, but then focused on the ontology of the processes and 
methods. It looks like the EXPO Group is more focused on the ontology 
of the knowledge, rather than the ontology of the processes and 
functional components of the experimental methodologies that are 
implemented, but I think this distinction is minor and it's a sign of 
being on the right track anyway. 

I'll have to do some more processing/digesting.

- Bryan
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