From: Jim Hendler (jhendler@darpa.mil)
Date: 05/02/01
DAML PIs A week ago I sent you all mail expressing disappointment with lack of ontology/DAML use. In the week that followed my "butt kicking" (as one of your colleagues put it, although he used a stronger term) there's about 25% more ontologies in the repository and over 1,000,000 more DAML Statements have been found by the crawler! This is great. Obviously we didn't have a bunch of people suddenly create this stuff overnight, rather people submitted more of what they were working on, or hadn't got around to submitting yet, or weren't quite "done" with, or etc. It was my suspicion that this was happening -- and I think these numbers prove it. I'd really like to see this web site and its various repositories and etc. become an important part of the life of the DAML community. The awareness of what we are doing is growing at an amazing rate, and you all are in the vanguard of what really could be a "next big thing." It would be nice if we could keep things moving without needing the yelling from the PM -- especially as the next PM may not be as nice as I am (Pat - that's a joke!!) Seriously, it makes it much easier for the PM to sell this program internally, as well as to promote it, when these numbers grow (example - I use graphs of the crawler outputs for my Director briefs), good things happen. Also, would be nice to continue to encourage your non-DAML-program colleagues who are doing ontology things in DAML to submit their work to the repository. We're purposely keeping DAML as open as possible to encourage others to join us. This includes students in classes who develop things, etc. Also, there's nothing wrong with putting new versions of existing things in the library (just number them appropriately) and things like that -- showing how these things evolve and grow is also important. The hit rate on our site is growing all the time - it's nice to keep it up to date. -Jim H. p.s. And soon John Flynn will be asking you for new items for next DAML newsletter -- we are distributing this within DARPA, and the PMs cull from this for the periodic reports we send to our DoD lords and masters -- so appearing in this should be good visibility for you and a chance to be a "hero" within the DAML funding program -- so keep that in mind Dr. James Hendler jhendler@darpa.mil Chief Scientist, DARPA/ISO 703-696-2238 (phone) 3701 N. Fairfax Dr. 703-696-2201 (Fax) Arlington, VA 22203 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler
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