Many of the things JFS has been saying in this topic
thread relate to the separation of ontology from practice in IT. I just
read this Atlantic article on how imagined design is separated from practice in
production. It has a lot of analogous findings that may be more easily
understood by ontologists in factory terms than in IT terms:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/?single_page=true
HTH,
-Rich
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper
EnglishLogicKernel.com
Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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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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