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Re: [iaoa-education] IAOA Terminology Project

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From: Luc Schneider <luc.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:33:03 +0200
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Yes, indeed, there is something on the wiki.    (01)

Until the end of this month I will be fairly busy, but after that I  
can invest more of my time.    (02)

Best,    (03)

Luc    (04)

Quoting Todd J Schneider <todd.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:    (05)

>
> Luc,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. I've already made some
> use of Barry Smith's paper on terminology.
>
> I think the first step is to limit the list of terms
> to those that provide the most misinterpretation(s).
> An initial attempt at such a list appears on the wiki
> page.
>
>
> Todd
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> From: Luc Schneider <luc.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:   iaoa-education@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 09/10/2012 10:19 AM
> Subject:      Re: [iaoa-education] IAOA Lexicon Project
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>
>
> Dear John, dear all,
>
> first of all my apologies for my late reply. I'm happy to be of any help.
>
> I also agree with John's suggestion: "terminology" is just fine.
>
> To be more practical and to get things started, we can use past
> attempts at clarifying concepts in applied ontology. Off the top of my
> head, there are at least four interesting terminological sources which
> one could exploit:
>
> (1) John Sowa's terminology in the appendix of his book on Konwledge
> Representation;
>
> (2) the report on the Wonderweb library of ontologies by the group of
> Nicola Guarino,
>
> (3) an essay on terminology which Barry Smith sent at an earlier stage
> of the discussion.
>
> (4) a "Handbook on Ontology" by Burkhardt and Smith, which is slightly
> more philosophical but still of good use.
>
> There are surely other interesting sources.
>
> (1), (2) and (3) already could provide a first orientation as to the
> items to be included in our terminology.
>
> Very best,
>
> Luc
>
>
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>
> Quoting John Bateman <bateman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Am 08.09.2012 18:19, schrieb Dr. Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS:
>>> But might there be some focus on communication? How about
>>> "Subcommittee for discourse standards"?
>>
>> ouch! I think that that
>> unfortunately raises so many different connotations
>> and mis-directions that it is even worse than 'lexicon'.
>> (And there are already discourse standards, in ISO even... but
>> not the sort that are meant here). I think 'terminology'
>> is still about the most neutral suggestion so far and the very reason
>> for having terminology agreements is to foster
>> communication, so that might probably
>> be considered already entailed.
>>
>> How about:
>>
>>    Subcommitee for Ontology Terminology
>>
>> Might be a bit clearer and more accurately reflect the scope?
>>
>> John B.
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