Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontologies and individuals

[William Frank <williamf.frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

I believed that the point was that, 

a domain ontology would, for most domains, especially scientific ones, need  to include references to special individuals, like zero,  like the chemical elements, as individuals, like the earth,  ..., like the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (the source of many of the definitions in the ontology), and might likely also find it useful to include special representative individuals, like certain rock samples. 

not that the ontology would be indistinquishable from a knowlege base for the domain, containing all the known facts about all the known individuals.
 
I agree with Hassan and probably most that calling these things TBox etc. was probably just a convenience for an email, not a standard.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Hassan Aït-Kaci <hassanaitkaci@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12/11/2012 8:25 AM, Nicola Guarino wrote:

Alex,

there is already a term for (2): *knowledge base*.

I agree. Why has a specific formalism terminology (namely OWL's TBox, ABox, ...) become standard? There have been generic names (Schema, Database, Knowledge Base, ...) independent of any specific formalism - as it should be. Especially when the formalism in question has evolved out of a yet unproven fad when it concerns "real-life" scalable apps.

My (CDN) $0.02 ...

-hak

Nicola

On 11 Dec 2012, at 17:10, Alex Shkotin <alex.shkotin@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:alex.shkotin@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

John,

Nicola reminds me 2 different definitions of ontology:
1. *> 2. *> I prefer (2) as it keeps all knowledge together:-)
And it looks like Sandro keeps in mind (1).

Alex

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