I had my “weekly” meeting with the Good Doctor today. The last time we saw each other was at my wedding reception almost a month ago. Topics of conversation included, but are not limited to:

1. How wonderful it is to be married (I highly recommend it),
2. When to schedule graduate credit hours (i.e. credit hours for which I don’t have to take classes but still have to pay tuition),
3. When the deadline for paper submission to the Family History Technology Workshop is (I already missed it), and
4. Where to get code and help for AskOntos…

It turns out that I won’t be working with AskOntos after all. I’ll be working with Ontos instead. What’s the difference? I have no idea. The two systems do the same thing and were worked on independently in the same group at the same time. I don’t know which came first, or which has been around longer. What I do know is that Mark Vickers, who understands AskOntos inside and out, is no longer with us, while Muhammed Al-Muhammed, creator of Ontos, still is. That’s reason enough for me.

I have a meeting with Muhammed tomorrow morning. I should be getting a copy of all his Ontos code and a walkthrough of the more salient bits. Over the next few weeks I’ll attempt to integrate it as a query parser plugin. It should go great (read: it will take a lot longer and won’t work nearly as well as I hoped; but I’m an optimist).

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