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Re: [ontolog-forum] Webby objects

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From: John F Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:30:08 -0500
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On 12/5/2012 10:52 AM, Rich Cooper wrote:
> 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    (01)

That's a good article.    (02)

Application to ontology:  You cannot separate the ontology of a system
from its design and implementation.    (03)

Imagine an IT department that had one group doing the architecture,
a second group doing the design, a third group doing the ontology,
and a fourth group doing the implementation.    (04)

There is only one way that department could produce a successful
system:  the chief implementer might have enough experience and
common sense to ignore the other three.    (05)

John    (06)



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