At 11:47 AM -0400 5/23/08, Patrick Cassidy wrote:
>Sean,
> Just a response to one of your points, on conversion of info from one
>model to another:
>> Since in practice, any system is only a partial representation of its
>> domain, and therefore will be described by a partial ontology, there
>> exist two further problems:
>> - How to identify the subsets of OA and OB for which the transformation
>> can be defined;
>> - How to identify subsets of OA and OB that in principle cannot be
>> mapped to each other because of differences in the bases.
>> (There is also the occasional row over whether it is possible to
>> construct a single ontology that can form the basis for all domains.)
>
> I do believe that constructing such an ontology is practical - (01)
... (02)
>The range of
>interoperability will depend only on how many different data managers decide
>to use the same foundation ontology. (03)
Quite. Absent a World Data Manager, I see no plausible way to ensure,
or even make it remotely likely, that such convergence of intentions
will take place. (04)
PatH
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