Excellent suggestion. This is routinely done in many online forums where
overloaded terms are used. However, I think it is only practical to build the
'guide' as we go along, rather than pre-guess all the uses of all terms in
advance. (01)
Pat Hayes (02)
On Jan 23, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Tara Athan wrote: (03)
> It would be helpful if there were an introductory message (an FAQ or a
> Guide to Users or something) that provides guidelines for disambiguating
> some of the overloaded terms that arise in ontology discussions. For
> example, we could use qualified names
> owl:Class, when we are talking about class as defined in the OWL semantics
> rdf:Class, similarly
> vNBG:Class, type-theory:Class, ...
> and especially, provide the normative references where newbies (I
> include myself) can read up to find out what these definitions are.
>
> Sometimes I don't even know I am using an overloaded term, because I
> have only read references that use the term in a particular meaning.
>
> Then if I and other newbies use a term that needs disambiguation,
> someone can (gently) remind us to refer to the Guide to Users and
> disambiguate our terms before resubmitting our question.
>
> Respectfully, Tara
>
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