Peter,
While ontolog's charter includes discussion of informal, as well as
formal ontologies, I believe the case we made in the NHIN RFI was for
benefits resulting from fully formal ontologies. When describing ontolog
in general, it's clear that you're right to keep our charter broad, but in
terms of specific recommendations I think we have had some consensus
advocating the latter approach. (01)
Adam (02)
At 02:57 PM 1/20/2005, Peter Yim wrote:
>Additonal comments:
>
>Ref. the statement (used in our response):
>
> "A formalized ontology is nominally an explicit specification of
>the conceptual understandings shared by a community of practice. ..."
>
>I suggest we should use, instead:
>
> "To the information science and technology professional, an
>ontology is nominally an explicit specification of the conceptual
>understandings shared by a community of practice. ..."
>
>Rationale:
>
>1. I qualified it by adding "To the information science and
>technology professional" because, ontology may mean something quite
>different to, say, the metaphysicists.
>
>2. I also took out the word "formalized", because (a) Ontolog purports
>to deal with both formal and informal ontologies, and (b) the
>discourse on "ontologies", even to the information scientists, has
>(arguably) extended to cover "formal", as well as "semi-formal" and
>"informal" ontologies.
>
>I just wanted to document this, as we'll quite possibly be using this
>paragraph over-and-over again as a boiler plate in the future.
>
>Cheers. -ppy
>--
>
>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:03:11 -0800, Peter P. Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Bob et al.,
> >
> > Great Job! Kudos to all who contributed to the response.
> >
> > I've uploaded the response to our file repository as:
> >
>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/health-ont/NHIN-RFI/NHIN_final-ontolog-rfi-response_20050118.doc
> >
> > Best wishes to the team ... when the next phase of the NHIN activities
> > come around.
> >
> > Thanks & regards. -ppy
> > --
> >
> > Bob Smith wrote Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:58:40 -0800:
> >
> > > Attached is the Ontolog Community response to the RFI issues by Dr.
> > > Brailer's Office.
> > >
> >
> >
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