On 14/03/2011 12:58 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> Doug,
>
> JFS
>>> The point I have been repeating in different ways is that there is no
>>> such thing as an ideal upper level. Many people have reached that
>>> conclusion after working very hard to find one.
> DF
>> This follows from the fact that what is best suited for one purpose may
>> not be best suited for another. If one application uses a narrow number
>> of concepts, it need not have upper ontology components irrelevant to
>> the application.
> Yes.
>
> And this is true even for a single corporation. All departments may
> contribute to the same product line. But engineering, manufacturing,
> sales, finance, buildings, services, shipping, human resources, etc.,
> have very different ways of talking about and dealing with them.
>
And if you start dealing with your other stakeholders, you will find
more differences. The banks and the various tax departments in the
countries that the company operates may have very different views about
financial transactions.
The EU Environment regulations and the Chinese environment regulations
might cause you to have very different definitions of your products'
environmental compliance and reporting information. (01)
Ron
> John
>
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