Joel - (01)
On Dec 18, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Joel Bender wrote: (02)
> How do *you* measure success? (03)
For this (mythical?) ontology beast:
- it exists in some form so accessible/useful that people who know
(and probably care) nothing about ontologies will find it & use it
with minimal training... some motivated users going so far as to
helping to correct & extend it
- the ontology(s) become self sustaining (04)
I harp on the evolution of the automobile. In its early days, aside
from being rich to afford such an exotic toy, you had to know (or
hire someone who knew) a tremendous amount about the cranky (pun)
beast. 120 years later the automobile is effectively a "sealed-
unit." You need to know virtually nothing about it to use it. The
amount of basic engineering/fix-it knowledge I had to acquire to keep
my 1953 Chevy running was extensive. My 18 year-old son (who wants
to be a mechanical engineer & has built his own computer) barely
knows what a spark plug is & I seriously doubt if he's ever seen one. (05)
What was once exotic, becomes common-place. (06)
Also... we've been doing software (creating 1,000s of languages in
the process) for about 50 years & still have no widely accepted means
of measuring it. Few alleged software "engineers" have heard of,
much less use, Function Points. The "accepted standard" of lines-of-
code is accepted without blushing... very much along the lines of "If
you believed that last whopper, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn for
you..." (07)
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