Re: [OpenCyc-devel] Introduction

[Stephen R. <re...@cy...>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, James Michael DuPont wrote:

> > >Are the project managers comitted to using the bug tracking system
> > on
> > >source forge?
> >
> > Currently we are. We use Bugzilla internally, and we'll be setting up
> > a
> > link for OpenCyc project team members to report new bugs directly
> > into the
> > internal system via email. Someone will volunteer to transfer
> > SourceForge
> > bugs into the internal system, probably by using the email interface.
>
> I would be interested in writing a import function for bug tickets into
> sourceforge, currently I am looking at extracting metadata from DEBIAN
> sourceforge (2.5) and writing XML import routines.
> Maybe an RDF or DAML would be good?

DAML is more expressive if we ever wish to perform deductive inference
over the meta data or instances.

>
> > >Is there anybody working on a Perl interface for OpenCyc?
> >
> > We have one that we're going to release after a little cleanup. It
> > should
> > be ready with v0.7, within the next few weeks.
> How would that be licensed? What libraries will be exposed?

LGPL - you get the source and can use it in a commercial product if you
wish.  But we would like enhancements and bug fixes uploaded to the
OpenCyc CVS repository.

>
> > - opencyc-knowledge is for knowledge enterers and ontological
> > engineers
>
> > - opencyc-whi-layer is not yet used. If it gets used, it will be for
> > those
> > interested in a massive knowledge collection effort -- the Widely
> > Held
> > Information layer or WHI (pronounced "why") layer.
> Could that be used for storing XMLILIZEd DAMLIZED representations of
> open source software? Is there a public sever available? The IRC bot
> was cool. How hard is that to setup?

I understand that there is controversy over the use of GCC as the source
of such representations (for use in a non-GPL software) and I have promised
Richard Stallman that I would encourage you to obtain the same
information from alternative source code parsers, ANTLR being one.

As we get further along on the WHI layer, we will encourage updates to our
public OpenCyc servers, and the exchange of knowledge among users who host
their own OpenCyc servers on Linux or Win32.

>
> What about GUIs? Have you thought of GRAPH LAYOUT engines via an API?

We will release a java graph tool that displays the Cyc ontology in an
arc and node fashion.  Again you will get the source (LGPL).

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