Chris,
Fair comment regarding the analogy, it wasn't ideal but if you
substitute "ontology" with "process of developing an ontology", I think the
point holds. My central concert is: who creates ontologies? It is not
specialist engineers but a community of stakeholders bringing different skills
to the table.
Cheers,
Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Menzel
Sent: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011 12:31
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Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] I ontologise, you ontologise, we all mess
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similar dialogues) (02)
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Peter Brown wrote:
>> ...
>> I remain baffled by the terms (and the presumed concepts behind them –
>which are *not* clear at all) of ‘ontology engineer’ and ‘ontology
>engineering’. I do not think that one can ‘engineer’ an ontology any
>more than one can engineer a meeting: one can bring skills, methods and tools
>to the meeting (as Chair of a meeting for example) and can make sometimes
>significant progress even in ignorance of the subject of the meeting – if
>the purpose of the role of Chair is to help the meeting to come to some
>conclusion. However, once a Chair starts to pronounce on matters and get
>involved in the substance of a meeting, those skills and methods become
>overshadowed by their ignorance or partisanship.
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> I don't understand your analogy. An ontology is a concrete artifact (unlike
>a meeting). And, like the production of any quality artifact, the production
>of a good ontology requires training and expertise. On the face of it,
>anyway, "ontology engineer" seems a reasonable title for those with the
>appropriate training and expertise. (Opinions vary, of course, regarding the
>nature and extent of such training and expertise.)
>
> I have to say that I don't see how an ontology is in any way enough like a
>meeting to support your argument that, because it makes no sense to engineer a
>meeting, it makes no sense to engineer an ontology.
>
> -chris
>
>
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