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Bill,
Strictly, I could create an ontology as an index
to all potential combinations of the factors, however the only useful thing that
could be done with it is to break it down into the factors, so that the users
could generate their own event code, either manually, or
automatically.
One of the reasons for doing it this way is that
a simple structure of factors are relatively straightforward to translate into
the different languages of the recipients (we assume a multi-lingual,
multi-alphabetic target audience).
Sean Barker
Bristol, UK
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| Hi Sean,
A couple of comments to your note.
On Jun 7, 2007, at 04:25 , Barker, Sean (UK) wrote:
That is, I don't think that "event" can be represented
by a single ontology, and that it should be represented by a set of
factor ontologies (for scale, cause and actor) for which there is some
measure of agreement.
If you have some entity or entities E that can't be represented by a
single ontology and which you will represent using "factor" ontologies,
then one of these must be the case:
1) The factor ontologies are inconsistent when combined, in which case
there's not much point in talking about E in the first place except in the
sense the representation so made could be read by humans (for which we already
have great natural languages).
2) The factor ontologies are not inconsistent when combine, in which case
could you clear up what you meant by "I don't think that "event" can be
represented by a single ontology", since clearly in this case they can be so
used.
Cheers,
.bill
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