[From nobody Fri Jul 13 03:08:55 2007 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by store3m.internal (Cyrus v2.3.8-fmsvn11630) with LMTPA; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:38:04 -0400 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.3 X-Spam-score: 0.0 X-Spam-source: IP='66.33.206.23', Country='US', FromHeader='com', MailFrom='org' X-Delivered-to: nitin@borwankar.com Received: from frida.dreamhost.com (frida.dreamhost.com [66.33.206.23]) by mx1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797D1272E8D for <nitin@borwankar.com>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:38:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from che.dreamhost.com (che.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.23]) by frida.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126D016D249; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from che.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by che.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997241BB9A; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:37:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-To: wg@lists.tagcommons.org Received: from postalmail-mx3.g.dreamhost.com (mx1.postal.mail.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.51]) by che.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49191BBBF for <wg@lists.tagcommons.org>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k2smtpout01-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (k2smtpout01-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.189.89]) by postalmail-mx3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 40A3720C7A for <wg@tagcommons.org>; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21257 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2007 21:37:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mkbergman.com) (216.69.157.212) by k2smtpout01-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.189.89) with ESMTP; 12 Jul 2007 21:37:52 -0000 Received: by mail.mkbergman.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 373CEFB53AA; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:37:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [216.137.71.93]) by mail.mkbergman.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584DAFB53A6; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:37:31 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <46969F29.8010806@mkbergman.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:37:45 -0500 From: "Michael K. Bergman" <mike@mkbergman.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 'Tag Commons Working Group' <wg@tagcommons.org> References: <20070427232727.111E111F80B@postalmail-a4.g.dreamhost.com> In-Reply-To: <20070427232727.111E111F80B@postalmail-a4.g.dreamhost.com> X-Remote-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.6 (2005-12-07) on ip-216-69-157-212.ip.secureserver.net X-Remote-Spam-Level: X-Remote-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.6 Subject: [TagCommons-WG] Announcing the UMBEL Project X-BeenThere: wg@tagcommons.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: Tag Commons Working Group <wg-tagcommons.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.tagcommons.org/listinfo.cgi/wg-tagcommons.org>, <mailto:wg-request@tagcommons.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.tagcommons.org/pipermail/wg-tagcommons.org> List-Post: <mailto:wg@tagcommons.org> List-Help: <mailto:wg-request@tagcommons.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.tagcommons.org/listinfo.cgi/wg-tagcommons.org>, <mailto:wg-request@tagcommons.org?subject=subscribe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: wg-bounces@tagcommons.org Errors-To: wg-bounces@tagcommons.org Hi All, You are cordially invited to comment or participate in the UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) project. UMBEL is a lightweight way to describe the subject(s) of Web content, akin to the relationship "isAbout". It is meant to work universally with HTML, tagging, microformats or other standard practices, including various RDF schemas and more formal ontologies. Its reference subject 'backbone' is derived from the intersection of common subjects found on popularly used Web sites and other accepted subject references. UMBEL is very simple with few ambitions. It is merely a reference 'bag of subjects' to help relate Web data sets to one another. UMBEL makes no presumptions to replace formal domain or upper ontologies, has little or no inferential power, and makes no assumptions about the means to describe or serialize the underlying data. UMBEL is meant to work with data sets ranging from RSS and Atom feeds to tagging, microformats, RDF, existing schema and other data and metadata models. UMBEL's development is being backed by a number of leading open data efforts and entities. In addition to its core reference subjects, the UMBEL project will be providing look up, query, registration, pinging, and related services. The project is completely open under a community process with all products available via Creative Commons licenses. The initial project site is at http://www.umbel.org, including an introduction (http://www.umbel.org/intro.xhtml) (the best place to start!) and the draft project specification (http://www.umbel.org/proposal.xhtml). A mailing list you can monitor or join is at http://groups.google.com/group/umbel-ontology. We welcome and invite your participation! Best regards, Mike Bergman * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please accept apologies in advance if you receive duplicate announcements; this was posted to a few appropriate mailing lists. In future, all announcements will be made directly from the UMBEL Web site. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -- ______________________________ http://www.umbel.org mailto:mike@mkbergman.com ______________________________ _______________________________________________ WG mailing list WG@tagcommons.org http://lists.tagcommons.org/listinfo.cgi/wg-tagcommons.org ]