I think a relevant point is that any "widely supported ontology" should
be widely supported because it has emerged from industry specialists
doing real work (like your own work at Shell) and not because some group
of clever ontologists have got some funding and gone off and done some
ontology and then worked to get it widely supported. In other words, the
semantics would be widely supported to begin with. (01)
And, indeed, widely maintained. (02)
Mike (03)
Matthew West wrote:
> Dear Pat,
>
>
>> This has got to be nonsense. You are claiming that if your
>> hypothetical 'foundation ontology' were available, that the US economy
>> would gain 100 billion dollars in a matter of weeks, simply by more
>> efficient information transfer? First, I simply do not believe that
>> anyone, with any methodology, could possibly sustain this estimate
>> based on any actual data.
>>
>
> MW: Well I have looked at this, and I don't know what the number is, but it
> is very large. Just in Shell I found that it was so unbelievable that I
> scaled the answer I got back by a factor of 10 before talking to anyone.
>
>
>> Second, this assumes that (even if this
>> estimate is correct) that the presence of an ontology will magically
>> remove all problems of intercommunication throughout an entire
>> economy. Which is so obviously nonsensical, I submit, that one has
>> only to state it to see how ridiculous it is.
>>
>
> MW: This is more where the flaw lies. The myth that if you have a better
> mousetrap, people will beat a path to your door. I think it would take at
> least 20 years for a widely supported ontology to have this sort of effect,
> possible more. Certainly I think that managing the politics of take up is a
> much tougher problem than developing the ontology itself.
>
> Regards
>
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>> Pat Hayes
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>>> I also suspect that a lot more than the project cost has already
>>> been lost
>>> in the hunt for alternatives that will never prove useful. Unless
>>>
>> you
>>
>>> assume the probability of success at under 0.01%, the FO project is
>>> likely
>>> to be cost-effective; and it can be staged so that the greatest
>>> expense is
>>> only incurred after preliminary work indicates a higher likelihood of
>>> success.
>>>
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