+1 on ontological federation of existing (and not ontological) organizations
+and systems. This is the "killer application" for ontologies and necessitates
+"reverse engineering". (01)
John,
Physical formats can be handled -we know how to do this - the semantic
federation remains the harder problem, as you know. "human conventions for use"
are part of the federation ontology. (02)
-Cory (03)
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> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John F Sowa
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> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Architectural considerations in Ontology
> Development
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> On 2/22/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Bennett wrote:
> > The financial industry has lots of standards for messaging, and some
> > at the level of common logical data models, but the requirements for
> > integration within financial firms has led to an increasing
> > realisation that what's really needed is common semantics...
>
> Common ontology can certainly be a big help for enabling two firms, A and B,
>to
> interoperate. But independently developed systems that use the same ontology
> are likely to have different *physical* formats and different *human*
> conventions for the people who use and operate the computer systems.
>
> If bank A buys bank B, the merged bank continues to run the software and
> databases of bank A and B separately. Even when they say that they merged the
> two databases, they are really running them as if they were still separate.
>
> If and when they want to shut down the old programs, they persuade (or force)
> customers from bank B to close the old accounts, open new accounts in the
> formats of A, and transfer the funds from the old accounts to the new
>accounts.
>
> John
>
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