If we ( including Jim H and Jim S) believe that further practical maturity
will come from applying these technologies to a real large scale project,
then let us say so in this report. The theoretical maturity index of 4 on a
9 pt scale will be interpreted by most CIOs to just wait and see if IBM or
MS comes up with a solution. They will not unless there is "MONEY"-as they
say "show me the money". If DoD continues to fund technology research w/o
ever leading to be a first user, then we will keep on debating this issue ad
infinitum. Look at the history-where will the Internet be today? (01)
Just my opinion.
regards
ajit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schoening, James R C-E LCMC CIO/G6" <James.Schoening@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "common upper ontology working group" <cuo-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:20 PM
Subject: [cuo-wg] Completed exchange with Jim Hnedler (02)
> CDSI WG,
>
> I completed about a dozen email exchanges with Jim Hendler. Below is
> his final response.
>
> The attached paper reflects some good points he made. It now lists
> "Ontology Mapping and Linking" as a candidate technical solution and
> recognizes its promise in solving enterprising-wide data interoperability,
> but still only rates it a 4 on the 9-level Technology Readiness Level
> scale. (This rating is still open if anyone can give a good example of it
> being higher or lower.) He is not embracing or concuring with the paper,
> but his initial opposition seems to have been resolved by the suggestions
> (good ones) I made.
>
> In a day or two, I'll post this again to the SICoP list, and if no
> other technical comments, will remove the 'draft' and post it to our web
> site. I'll then call a teleconference to discuss how to get the paper out
> to the right people.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hendler [mailto:hendler@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 5:03 PM
> To: Schoening, James R C-E LCMC CIO/G6
> Subject: Re: Moving out with paper
>
> I agree with you that it is important they [DoD] understand, or at least
> explore, limitations, but to be honest, what I'd really like to see is DoD
> move some of this stuff into acquisition, that's where they actually scale
> maturing technologies in practice, not in the research world - the amount
> of money in Army research going into data interoperability right now is
> trivial (and they're cutting back), DARPA which controls most of the IT
> research money in the DoD is not terribly interested in pushing the area,
> Air Force has some investment, but not really enough to make things
> happen. I think the community needs to tell the DoD that we are ready to
> play - I think if a company like SAIC, LM or Northrup-Grumman got a big
> contract to do database interoperability with a requirement that they
> could not replace existing systems, but had to integrate in place, it
> would push the field far more than the small research investment ARL has
> for this stuff. Heck, the subcontract partneri!
> ng in such an acquisition would probably be more money than a research
> program in the area (and there'd be a "make it work" aspect) - but I think
> each of these things is equally unlikely in the near future - data
> integration remains on everyones list of important problems, but everyone
> seems to be waiting for commercial industry to solve it - your report will
> be read by some CIOs as "keep waiting" - but hopefully some other folks
> will see there's a point here and move budgets - it's a long shot, but
> what the heck, that's what we do...
> -JH
>
>
>
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