Re: [ontolog-forum] Dontology (Was: Data Models v. Ontologies (again))

["Michael F Uschold" <uschold@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can be doing data modeling AND building an ontology at the same time, e.g if you intend to use your ontology as a way to structure data, e.g. in an abox, or triple store. It is not always either or, there is an overlap. 

Michael

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Adrian Walker <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Sean --

You wrote

I'm still trying to sort out when to tell people I'm doing data
modelling and when ontologies

In the system online at the site below, the following activities are unified in one framework:

• Specification of applications in executable English
• Reasoning over hierarchies and other structures
• Automatic generation and execution of complex SQL,  with business-level English explanations of the results

So, there may be advantages in regarding data modeling and ontology writing as unifiable activities.  A name for this might be "dontology modeling"? 

Hope this helps.

Apologies to folks who have seen this before, and thanks for comments.

                              

                      -- Adrian
                  
Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English over SQL
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com    Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering

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