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Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontologies vs. Web Ontologies

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From: Deborah MacPherson <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:27:20 -0400
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Curious where this list of facilities came from and how they came to be 
organized this way. Thanks Deborah MacPherson    (01)

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On Oct 23, 2012, at 2:08 PM, "doug  foxvog" <doug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    (03)

> On Sun, October 14, 2012 21:32, John F Sowa wrote:
>> ...
>> There is more legacy software in the world than new software.  So the
>> most important axioms are the ones that describe the typical way that
>> people would interpret terms like 'AutoDealer', 'FireStation', 'Time',
>> 'GovernmentOrganization', or 'FoodEstablishment.CafeOrCoffeeShop'.
>> Those are typical terms from http://www.schema.org/docs/full.html
> 
>> Note that none of those terms have any definitions other than their
>> placement in the hierarchy.
> 
> However, they have lists of applicable properties due to their positions
> in the hierarchy.  This provides some semantics.  I note that 'AutoDealer',
> 'FireStation', 'FoodEstablishment', and 'CafeOrCoffeeShop' are all
> under both Place and Organization in the hierarchy.  As places, they have
> fixed spatial properties, while as organizations they have properties of
> agents and groups.
> 
> To be ontologically pure, one might distinguish the organization (which
> can relocate) from the physical premises (which can not).   However,
> in common speech people will use the same name for both the organization
> and the location, and anaphora to refer to one, even when the referenced
> term referred to the other.
> 
> -- doug foxvog
> 
>> ...
> 
>> John
> 
> 
> 
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