Hello Peter, (01)
a very enlightening talk. (02)
"The degree of detail and expressiveness in an ontology is inversely correlated
to the achievable community size" (03)
I subscribe to this. At Web scale, OWL may be too expressive instead of too
restrictive. (04)
Regards, (05)
Michael Brunnbauer (06)
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:27:26PM -0700, Peter Yim wrote:
> I just had the chance to go through Martin Hepp's keynote talk[1] via
> vimeo which he gave a few days ago at EKAW 2012 (
> http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/ ).
>
> The talk is entitled: "From Ontologies to Web Ontologies: Lessons
> Learned from Conceptual Modeling for the WWW" where Martin discussed
> (among other things) whether there is a fundamental difference between
> traditional ontologies and Web ontologies, and analyze the the
> specific economic, social, and technical challenges of building,
> maintaining, and using socially agreed, global data structures that
> are suited for the WWW at large, also with respect to the skills,
> expectations, and particular needs of companies and Web developers.
> (The extended abstract of his talk is available at:
> http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org/node/39 )
>
> His argues that web ontologies are not the same as ontologies (the way
> formal ontologists), and talked of a "2nd passage" in ontology (the
> first being from Ontology as used in Philosophy, to Ontology as used
> by AI scientists; and then a 2nd passage from the "traditional"
> Ontologies to the Web Ontologies.)
>
> Personally, I think his identification of the intrinsic differences
> between "traditional" ontologies and web ontologies is a important
> insight, and am therefore, sharing the links to Martin's talk[1] in
> the hope that this may generate some discussion and, hopefully, help
> bridge the understanding between the communities that profess in them.
>
> [1] see: http://vimeo.com/51152934
>
>
> Regards. =ppy
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