Jack,
You write below:
Patrick Durusau and I tackled the "who gets to
decide" issue in an
Ontolog conference call [1] in which we argued for a
mapping approach
that implies that virtually all choices are available,
the final
decision being left up to the user's particular needs.
That is a great goal - preserving all the possible options for the
final fitting of the ontology to the application.
How do you document the options so that the final fitter understands
the available choices? Given the open approach and its clear advantages
over a one-size-fits-all ontology, a secondary issue is managing the spectrum
of choices among multiple component ontologies.
One approach I've seen to that issue for software components is the
visual component library (VCL) originally from Borland, which comes with a
moderately documented help file system. A more productive approach would
be to match the application requirements and design statements to a suite of
components using automated means, a kind of ontology CAD system that helps the
user configure practical ontology components into operational application
prototypes very quickly. That makes a short generate-and-evaluate cycle,
leading to effectively leveraging the components while still in conceptual
design. Clearly that is a useful secondary issue for ontologies as
well.
How do you forsee configuring of component ontologies into
applications?
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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-----Original Message-----
From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jack Park
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 12:06 PM
To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Relating and Reconciling Ontologies
To Ron's "just not possible", I would argue "nothin's
impossible" but
rather, highly unlikely.
Patrick Durusau and I tackled the "who gets to decide" issue
in an
Ontolog conference call [1] in which we argued for a mapping approach
that implies that virtually all choices are available, the final
decision being left up to the user's particular needs.
Jack
[1] http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_04_27
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Ron Wheeler
<rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21/04/2011 1:36 PM, AzamatAbdoullaev wrote:
<snip>
>> Given that, I am convinced that to obtain the General Semantic
>> Interoperability standard, costing hundreds billions per year,
means to
>> develop a single world reference model, in the first place.
>> Azamat Abdoullaev
> Just not possible. Who gets to decide? There are too many
stakeholders.
> Each stakeholder will have trouble giving up a view of the
universe that
> has served their organization for years in order to fix someone
else's
> problem with this view.
> We have survived an Imperial vs Metric world for 2 centuries with
being
> able to agree on something so clear cut.
> We just make the conversions when we need to and the rest of the
time we
> pick one.
> In Canada,
we measure in metric but the frequently result is something
> that makes sense in inches (plywood comes in the metric equivalent
of
> 4x8 feet sheets and no one has any idea about how big that is in
metric).
>
> I have no expectation that the US
Justice Department and the US
> Treasury are ever going to agree on some definitions of financial
> transactions.
> The hierarchy of objects will probably never match and will be a
problem
> for the people who have to define the interoperability rules for
> companies who need to take their own internal view of the universe
and
> provide views for the external agencies that fit their
hierarchies.
> Try telling the EU or the Chinese that they have adopt the US
Treasury's
> view of the financial world.
>
> Ron
><snip>
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