For the first 15 of those 50 years we concerned ourselves with what were the
best 12 fields to put on that 80 column card. (01)
Since then we got to the point where tens of thousands of attributes was a
small system. And then we consumed ourselves with integrating these systems. (02)
It's really a scale issue. The human mind has difficulty dealing with the
complexity we've created. (03)
Ontologies, in my mind, offer a way to help sort, categorize and organize the
chaos we've created. We have to integrate the old with the new as we go
forward, but this isn't as hard as it sounds. SOA has given us the general
technological approach, Semantics is adding a layer of rationalization on top. (04)
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On Oct 26, 2009, at 8:14 PM, Mike Bennett wrote: (07)
> Agreed. If you want systems within an enterprise to interact, the
> starting point is an enterprise ontology. (08)
We've been building enterprise information systems for 50+ years with
nary a mention of ontologies. Why do we need ontologies now? (09)
Or from another perspective... IF ontologies are useful, how are we
going to construct said ontologies for existing systems? Only build
ontologies for "new" systems & wait for the old systems to be
replaced? That will take decades. (010)
Who's going to PAY for discovering these ontologies? (011)
- David (012)
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