Amen, Bill. I am a strong advocate of top-down ontologies (and so I recuse
myself), and so will not say more than you've said, except: The best approach
(in
my view) is a mixed top/bottom: harvest the documents you need to cover from the
bottom-up, induce their requirements upward, and come down from the top with
principles that seem to match. (01)
Leo (02)
"William E. McCarthy" wrote: (03)
> No matter how loud the marketing drumbeats get for UBL, there can be no
> disputing that it represents at its core a bottom-up approach to
> developing a business process ontology. You can generalize documents
> forever and still not unearth basic economic and business principles of
> economic exchanges. Documents add unnecessary components (like details of
> manual reconciliations/bookkeeping and/or paper exchange). Documents also
> hide components that should be analyzed and generalized (like
> implementation compromises of ideal models). Additionally, I do not see
> how the state of affairs at a process or collaboration level can be tracked
> by seeing which document was sent last.
>
> Harvesting existing knowledge (as UBL does) is a good partial
> approach. However, until UBL attacks some of these conceptual issues from
> the top down, it will be an incomplete ontological effort, no matter what
> personalities or companies are behind it.
>
> Bill McCarthy
> Michigan State
>
> moy rAt 02:05 PM 1/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >As the UBL release is nearing, we are starting to see their story covered in
> >trade press now.
> >
> >Take a look at the eWeek article:
> >
> > Push for UBL Protocol Gathers Momentum
> > By Darryl K. Taft / January 13, 2003
> >
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,825911,00.asp
> >
> >-ppy
> >
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