Commontology
version 0.1
by Jeroen Lapré 11Oct2K7

An open source OWL Ontology of minimum number of concept Classes, Constraints, and Individuals, in order to be able to convey most human day-to-day interactions and intentions.

Background

Based on a failed patent application that was filed back in 2001:
OBJECT-ORIENTED AND SEMANTICALLY-BASED UNIVERSAL MODELLING SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK
Please note: One of the main reasons this app was rejected was because we proposed it as a framework, rather than a process. It took over three years to receive this office action from the Patent Office. Which as you know, is an enternity in the high tech and software developement communities. A previous business entity, Memelogic, around which this concept was formed, agreed to disband. Since Jeroen Lapre' is the owner of the IP, this Commontology is a an open source re-incarnation of this idea. You may notice that it anticipated some of the features of the Semantic Web.

Abstract Model

The Commontology includes abstact concepts such as Mathematics, Thought, Idea, etc.

Physical Universe Model


The Commontology includes a minimalist model of a Physical Temporal Universe within which physical things exist and interact. i.e. Physical Space (naive 3 Dimensions); Temporal concepts past / present / future & world slice; Physical Objects with Volume, Mass, Shape, Colour, Texture, etc.

Agent Model

The Commontology includes a minimalist Agent model. i.e. the concept of an entity that changes something it it's environment.

Object Oriented Grammar

The Commontology includes a restricted subset of a natural language model (in this case English) of Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs, and their subclasses. Constraints and Logic rules between them define their relationships in an intuitive and self-documenting manner.

Computable Pidgin
Just as Pidgin was a means of two or more human groups that did not share a common language to communicate, this proposal is for a computable language between Humans and machines. Also Human<->Machine<->Human chains, such as semantic chat via the web, cell phones, etc.

Linking between Abstract, Universe, and Agent Models and Natural Language Subset

The Noun, Verb, Adjective and Adverb models link into the physical concepts in the Physical Universe Model, and the abstract Thought, Idea, and Mathematics concepts. This enables Agents to manipulate their environment through Verbs.

Applications
  • Real world top level Ontology
    • Will allow other more specialised ontologies to share knowledge across their domains, with a common human-readable grammar.
  • Semantic Protocol for sharing knowledge / data across virtual communities
  • Grammar / Protocol proposal for semantic chat
    • Semantic chat clients that adopt the Commontology, will allow users to turn their chat sessions into real time knowledge capture sessions
      • Resulting knowledge base can then be analyzed / trauled with open source OWL reasoners
    • Semantic chat clients can generate their GUI from the Object Oriented Grammar
  • As a main component of a number of other semantic related project proposals by Mad Meme Labs (see main page)
  • Core engine of Semantic Finite State Machine proposal
  • "Semantic DNA" for Artificial Life frame works and applications.
Version 0.1 OWL Skeleton and Documention
Related Ontologies
Universe Ontology
Upper Universe Ontology.
Applications: education, virtual universe modeling, as upper ontology of Commontology, etc.
OWL URI:
http://www.distant-galaxy.com/2007/12/Universe17Dec2K7B.owl
Judicial System Ontology
Proposal for the use of semantic web tools for teaching the US Judicial System and Democracy.

Related Projects

Semantic Finite State Machine

Related Technologies

The Semantic Web
OWL
Protege/OWL
Examples
Ontologies
Cyc
Doug Lenat
OpenCyc.org
OpenCyc for the Semantic Web
Opencyc Web Services
The CycFoundation
Attempto Controlled English (ACE)
Radar Networks / Twine

Mad Meme Labs is seeking participation, recommendations, collaboration, etc, on the definition of the above.

Contact: madmemelabs@distant-galaxy.com

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