Re: [ontolog-forum] what is open ontology?

[Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:55 PM +0700 4/21/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi Pat, Peter
>
> thanks for pointers to current discussions, and thanks for the
> clarification
> (sorry I have been out of the loop)
>
> In catching up I understand  that the discussion is about
> 'ontology repository', which is great and makes sense, thanks  
> -  O(Or) right?
>
>
> But I dont understand why
> > . I don't think it makes sense to refer to an ontology as
> > being open (or not).
> why not?

Well, what would it mean to say that a Word document was 'open'? An ontology is a (document consisting of) a collection of formal sentences. You can read the document: how much more 'open' can it get?

Pat

> a repository is only a repository, and
> debating its opennes is interesting but
> an open ontology, as in 'collaboratively deleveloped, adaptive,
> transforming, accessible, usable, multifaceted ontologies  are 
> key challenges  to ontology engineering , and open repositories
> are only an aspect
>
> looking at the repository as being the answer to the opennes of an
> ontology is trivialising
> the collective intelligence aspef of ontology engineering, which in my
> view comes before
> the repository aspect is discussed
>
>
> PDM
>
>
>  
> >
> > Pat
> > > My early take linked below, I would be happy to share notes on the
> > > work done in this last year, as well as to hear how the work of this
> > > summit is related or differs to the points below
> > > http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PaolaDiMaio/Towards_OpenOntology
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