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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JBowtie" data-source="post: 2144450" data-attributes="member: 1810">Hi, joining this from the other thread. Semi-random comments follow.I don't yet have a formal ontology for my project (using generic RDF at the moment) but it is pretty clearly the right way to go. If someone wants to propose or generate one, that would be a good place to start analysis - but not necessarily here on the forum.1) AI engines consume RDF (and, by extension, OWL). For our purposes, that means we can feed rules into an engine to detect contradictions and discover implicit relationships.2) RDF understands URLs and can be written as XML, so rules can be scattered around the web and still be pulled together.3) It's perfectly fine to start concrete work with raw XML and later turn it into RDF. Just use URLs as the rule identifiers, and hrefs to refer to rules. So brainstorming stuff in XML works just fine.4) Not everything needs to be defined in the core ontology, and we should ignore stuff that is not in the SRD for the initial version. Future work can extend and generalize.To elaborate on the last point - I don't think we need to generalize the core mechanic. Every program can (and probably will) hard-code that assumption. I don't have any books that require dice pools, and when I get one I can owl:import the core ontology and create some new terms and relationships. Unlike OO programming, I can retroactively add superclasses and properties.On language choices, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I think initially it would make sense to use Python because:1) It's cross-platform.2) It's dynamic - early on we'll do lots of prototyping and refactoring; having static types will trip up people.3) Code snippets are short and readable.4) A lot of the existing RDF/OWL tools are written in Python, short-circuiting the parser problem. Sparta in particular is a cool little library.For collaboration, a wiki makes the most sense. I'll put together a wiki, mailing list, and source code repository this weekend if no one else has done so by then (space on my website permitting).</blockquote>

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