Questions and comments from the workshop on 3/28

implications of who was chosen to speak to?

    list received from chris and wilson - chosen mainly because of mellon funding
    picking people who are building things?
        Chris - requested study for quidelines for up coming projects, which approach to take, can OSIDs? do it
    hard to judge success, there is not a clear picture of what that means in the context of OKI
        wasn't a survey of everyone working on OSIDs?, but a representative of that universe

interoperability, did you look at as desired for a particular project, or other people that could benefit such as projects that need to interoperate with your project

    short answer - yes
    the group that will benefit is not necessarily the group providing the funding

definitions - what is interoperability exactly

    getting to that
    what Don W is hearing is using tools, data, operations, etc. They all have different implications. is there a focus on those
        depends on project context otherwise there is no answer to what it means
    finding ROI picture - there is another dimension for groups

Surprised over shape of graph, in that models are less useful during development phase

    there is another dimension, in that style matters
    same problem could be addressed by different styles

    Ira - When thinking about osids, thinks of 2 activities - developing implementations - takes a fair amount of effort, and an individual user may see no benefit - second use is using it. deploying a particualr implementation - this would save a user effort. The question is did you discuss both aspects with folks. Not clear from the report.

        the question will be answered more later. need to discuss particular osids, and not as a whole
        there are few implementations for some osids, making re-use difficult
        to get value of the osids, requires a network effect, i.e., other users who can make use of an implementation
            if we can build communities in other areas then the network effect can be realized
            if other people are making the pitch, not just MIT, then greater chance for success
            look for a crowd
        on risk - cost of changing standards, maturity, etc, in theory they help minimize risks, but there is a risk involved as well.
            adapting to a standard also costs