Open hoijui opened 11 months ago
_(Also copied over from issue OPEN-NEXT/OKH-LOSHcopy#11, author: @hoijui)
In my mind, it would be nice if we could make this ontology such that it can be used (and potentially extend to) anything we come around in the OSH universe, not just what OKH needs right now in its current form. This way it can form a common basis for a lot of technology to come, but also for people to talk to each other about the subject. ... and who knows, maybe it can even help to replace the term Open Source Hardware with Open Source Touchable or the like. ;-)
Maybe the goal could be, to limit the ontology such, that it fits into a legible diagram (including icons for things) on a single page?
_(Also copied over from issue OPEN-NEXT/OKH-LOSHcopy#11, author: @moedn)
Moin! Some unasked comments from my side:
regarding your questions:
_(Also copied over from issue OPEN-NEXT/OKH-LOSHcopy#11, author: @hoijui)
ehhh wow, thank you @moedn!! :-)
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Let's develop an Ontology for OSH designs, manufacturing and maybe more (e.g. recycling).
To define the scope more specifically/to limit it more, we can discuss in here.
Current suggestion:
Scope of the Ontology
To allow different actors in the OSH universe to interact using similar wording. Such actors includes:
_From here on, the content was copied over from OPEN-NEXT/OKH-LOSHcopy#11, as this ontology would form the base for solving that issue.
I am brainstorming about this since a few days, and also asked Michele Langhammer and Mark Neugebauer from the FCHH network, whether they may know an ontology dealing with such stuff from industry (or elsewhere).
If not, I will start writing down some ideas and questions, and maybe work on a diagram.
My current mental model, consists of two parallel levels/spheres: virtual and physical. I think of it a bit like the main "levels"(?) in ValueFlows, there: Knowledge, Plan and Observation (so 3 levels in VF, 2 in our case):![](https://www.valueflo.ws/assets/process-layer.png)
These spheres are different, but for the most part - or at least roughly - an object in one sphere has an equivalent object in the other sphere.
Some questions (mostly for myself and maybe discussions; numbered just to make them referenceable):
hardware?)