On the serious side, addressing your first bullet below, has anyone ever taken steps to help others identify if an ontology exists that is suitable (perhaps from a global registry of ontologies)? In standards bodies we had the same problem. To many people producing competing standards. Some organizations introduced a litmus test that was unique to the organization and the establishment of a JTC liaison was introduced to help reduce overlap.
It might be worthy community endeavour to use something like CKAN to set up and run a registry of ontology work in the public domain. The cost savings of not duplicating others work would be enormous.
OK – now on the the sarcastic side of things:
+
I will vigorously argue my position on the Ontolog Forum until we all agree that the cause the the different points of views was once again a failure to clarify the meaning of a single term.
<duck>
;-)
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These are suggested principles for such a code which I defended at the 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology in Graz last year:
1. I hereby swear that I will reuse existing
ontology content wherever possible
2. I hereby swear that whenever I reuse
terms from an existing ontology, I will keep their original source IDs
3. I hereby swear that before releasing an ontology
I will aggressively
test it in
multiple independent real-world applications
4. I hereby swear that before committing a
new term and definition to an ontology I will always think
first
BS
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Gary Berg-Cross
<gbergcross@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Following the mortgage meltdown that prompted the current
crisis were those theoretical constructs known as financial models Emanuel
Derman and Paul Wlmott had an article that appeared in Bloomberg Business week
called “The
Modelers' Hippocratic Oath”
In the article they listed the oath and I thought it might
be of interest and amusing to the Ontolog community and adapted it slightly as:
An Ontologist's Hippocratic Oath
~ I will remember that I didn't make the world, and it doesn't exist
to make my formal ontology and its taxonomies look good.
~ Though I will use models boldly to enhance data and information
understanding, I will not be overly impressed by them.
~ I will never sacrifice reality for elegance without explaining
why I have done so.
~ Nor will I give the people who use my ontological models false
comfort about its accuracy. Instead, I will make explicit its assumptions and
oversights.
~ I understand (and hope) that if done well my work may eventually
have significant effects on information science, society and its economy, many
of them beyond my comprehension.
--
Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D.
NSF INTEROP Project
SOCoP Executive Secretary
Knowledge Strategies
Potomac, MD
240-426-0770
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