Matthew & Tatiana et. al, (01)
This is a good conversation (referencing Tatiana's remarks on
Matthew's The Ontology and Databases Landscape diagram - see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DatabaseAndOntology#nidQ27). (02)
I am copying this to the [ontolog-forum] (and am requesting this, and
similar issues of community interest, over the list) so that more
people can chip in and even more may benefit from the discourse. (03)
As far as "what is 'ontology'?" goes, I just wanted to highlight, for
those who have joined more recently, that, as a community, we have
adopted the definitions as brought up by Leo Obrst (on several
occasions, but notably on his two part presentation back in Jan. 2006
- ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12#nidOHT)
... I guess we'll be discussing more on this specific issue when Steve
Ray et. al starts moving into the "Ontology Measurement and
Evaluation" series, right? (04)
Thank you for the illuminating discussion. ... please continue. (05)
Regards. =ppy
-- (06)
On 9/20/06, matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx <matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Tatiana,
>
> Thank you for your comments. You said: (07)
> 1. Ontology is a formal representation of Information Requirements and
>the relationship between these two nodes is maybe Presented rather than About. (08)
> That is not what I meant when I used the word ontology. (09)
> For me (and I believe traditionally) ontology is about what exists, rather
> than about information requirements. The formal representation of information
> requirements is traditionally the domain of data models (used in the design
> of databases). I was already anticipating that information requirements would
> be formally represented. So I was trying to say: (010)
> - Start by making a statement of what exists
> - Identify your information requirements about those things (put it in a
> data model)
> - Implement a database based on the data model
> - Develop an HCI that provides access to the data
> - develop interfaces between databases for data sharing. (011)
> Additionally,
>
> - One of the things you may have information requirements for are ontologies,
> - So you need to identify your information requirements for ontologies
> - Some databases will be implementations of those requirements (012)
> I hope that clarifies my intended use of terminology.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew (013)
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tatiana Malyuta [mailto:tmalyuta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 19 September 2006 18:30
> > To: Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; peter.yim@xxxxxxxx; lobrst@xxxxxxxxx;
> > ray@xxxxxxxx; West, Matthew R SIPC-DFC/D21; dbedford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: dnickull@xxxxxxxxx; conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; rexb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Ontolog call 2006.09.21
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here you can find attached a file with a functional view of
> > relationships between ontology and database.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Tatiana
> >
> >
> >
> > Tatiana Malyuta, PhD
> > Associate Professor
> > Computer Systems Technology Department
> > New York City College of Technology
> >
> > attachment transcribed to:
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DatabaseAndOntology#nidQBN (014)
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