Much better put than my verbal wanderings!
Ron
On 22/11/2012 9:01 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 12:05 PM, Peter Yim wrote:
>> just so we are clear ... ONTOLOG (a.k.a. Ontolog Forum)
>> is a community of practice...
>>
>> Therefore, we don't do standards here
> I'm *not* proposing a new standard. We already have lots of standards.
> What I am proposing is that we ask some fundamental questions. The
> basic question is "Why aren't practitioners using ontologies?"
>
> The WWW grew very rapidly without any standards. Tim B-L put together
> some good ideas in a very fruitful combination, and the growth curve
> for the WWW was exponential. There was no need to promote it --
> people jumped on the bandwagon as soon as they saw it.
>
> Instead of promoting anything or standardizing anything, I believe
> we should be asking some soul-searching questions:
>
> 1. Why aren't mainstream IT and web sites using ontologies?
>
> 2. Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other major corporations are
> well aware of the SW tools, but they don't use them. Why?
>
> 3. What is missing from our tools, techniques, and logics?
>
> 4. What methods work in mainstream development?
>
> 5. Instead of telling mainstream developers to adopt our methods,
> perhaps we should adapt our methods to theirs. But how?
>
> In addition to the questions, we should also discuss ideas about
> new directions and approaches that might lead to answers.
>
> John
>
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