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Re: [ontolog-forum] meta ontology framework

To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx
From: Alexander Garcia <cagarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:17:58 +0200
Message-id: <20090406101758.koknrjc3k08o4wg0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
e-connections, that work is probably relevant. Although it is not  
exactly a meta ontology framework.    (01)

Zitat von paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx:    (02)

> an earlier excerpt from a previous post is going around my head (sunday
> blues)
>
> CM
> The puzzle is why you don't grasp the fact that the writer is
> obviously arguing against the idea of a single ontology.
>
>
> At the cost of getting scolded,  this discussion is far from exhausted.
> I had this conversation with Fabio Ciravegna  after a keynote speech, where
> he talks intesively of the  small ontology world (federated, distributed,
> networked ontology). Point taken. Agreed,
> But how, I asked , how are we going to get all these little ontologies to
> work with one another and possibly synchronise? Dont we need a kind of 'meta
> ontological framework'?    yes, said Fabio, everyone who is delivered an
> ontology needs a framework for it to be casted in and to align other
> ontologies with. And who is doing such work? Nobody that anybody knows of.
>
> Having read relevant portions of Azamat's work, I think what he calls
> unified ontology, and therefore raises eyebrow and argument like the ones we
> have had on thi list, and the one above, is a meta ontological framework
> (not an ontlogy metamodel like the OMG, but in the same direction). A system
> to align and support the synchronization of different part-ontologies
>
> I have no doubt that this kind of work is needed, although I think maybe it
> does not always come across cleary what is it exactly, what purpose, what
> benefits
>
> I think avoiding to deliver on a unified framework, means that
>
> 1. the (domain, application, task) ontologies alone will never be able to be
> integrated seamslessy and dynamically aligned  with other ontologies and its
> overall information environments
>
> 2. the gaps created by such built in systemic ontological misalignment will
> be very expensive to fix, and the 'need for more research' cycle will be
> self perpetrating (and oh yes, a consortium of top universities will deliver
> that..)
>
> I encourage  or anyone who intends to bring a novel perspective (and is
> trying to get funded) to
> make sure that their proposed ideas are demonstrable and directly aimed at
> fill existing gaps.
>
> Now burn me.
>
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> pdm
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>    (03)



Alexander Garcia
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