John,
Wonder what's "the bottom line".
Do we close to agree on the following "sound bites" of ontology (some as
modified by Doug):
I. "Ontology is a general theory about the world, its domain, entities and
relationships."
II. "An ontology is a general theory about some aspect of the world, its
subdomains, entities and relationships."
III. "A formal ontology is a formal theory of some aspect of world, its
subdomains, entities and relationships."
Re. your examples.
There happen the conflicts of state laws (domain ontologies) and federal
laws (global ontologies), which are resolved by the federal courts
(Federated Ontologies), mostly judging for the uniformity of law (commercial
laws inclusive).
Some comments below.
Azamat
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Terminologies and Ontologies (01)
> On 5/1/2011 2:01 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>> If you do business internationally, you will also have to map the views
>> of foreign governments into your own view of transactions and assets.
>> The odds of China, the US and EU agreeing on a common view of revenue,
>> expense classes and tax treatment of transactions is zero.
>
> That is true for many, many kinds of things.
>
> As I mentioned in my previous note, Louisiana has been part of the
> US for 208 years. But their legal structure still hasn't been fully
> assimilated to the other 49 states.
>
> For an example, use your favorite search engine for info about the
> "Uniform Commercial Code" for the states in the USA. The first draft
> was written in 1942. After ten years of discussion and revision,
> it was published in 1952.
AA: Your good example actually plays to the benefit of the Federated
Ontology (Global Ontology + Domain Ontologies).
Dealing mostly with personal property, the UCC is a member of uniform sets
of laws, responsibility of the Federal Government, and known as "Uniform
Acts", see its long listing,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Uniform_Acts_(United_States).
Its a must as a "global legal ontology" for all local states (as plenary
sovereigns). Louisiana just refers to the nine major subdivisions of the
UCC, like definitions, sales, or secured transactions, as "chapters" instead
of articles, and if they are inconsistent with the local civil code, or
regulated by non-uniform state laws (like mortgages, what causes the toxic
assets crises, by the way). (02)
>
> Various states adopted it one by one. Louisiana finally adopted it
> in 1990 -- but with some exceptions.
>
> How many people would like to bet on a target date for a world-wide
> "uniform commercial code"?
AA: Next step is a uniform commercial code, which covers all types of
commerce and transactions, as real property (some time ago, i've done
something on the Real Estate Ontology)
How about a world-wide ontology that covers everything?
AA: Look at the current tendency for unifying Science, Arts, and Technology.
Look at all sorts of technology convergence, the interlinking of information
technologies, computing, media technology and content, and telecommunication
networks, which is hardly possible wthout a common interoperability
framework, "a world-wide ICT ontology".
And please don't miss the most disruptive technology: the prospects of the
Internet as a Single Global Network, converging all the world's media, and
emerging as the Internet of Things, Knowledge, and People. (03)
> John
>
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