Ray, (01)
You've definitely done some thinking about the needs to move forward.
These are part of "Go West Young Man, Go West" movement. Horace Greely's
statement was mostly about hand-waving, implying that all you have to do
is "Go West" and things will be better. It is also "Plastics". All of
these types of statements are satirical in that they are diagnostic but
not prescriptive. Those of us interested in useful ontologies need to
help others understand the uses of ontologies. This is one of the issues
with Linked Data. We are encouraged to make data available but it is
difficult to put metrics on the conversions. (02)
So, if you do decide to "Go West", the real questions relate to finding
a scout or guide, buying horse and wagon, deciding how you finance your
trip and what will you do once you get there. In marketing terms these
are generally covered by the rubric of defining the migration path. We
make light of IBM's Watson and MIT's Affective Robots, but we must
realize they each are part of the process in defining the migration
path. Commercial enterprises operate best when there is a viable
migration path and each step is self-funding with discretionary money or
O.P.M., Other People's Money. (03)
-John Bottoms
FirstStar Systems
Concord, MA USA (04)
On 1/14/2014 9:47 AM, Ray Martin wrote:
> Passing through your favorite little coffee shop, you see a RE-USER
> sipping coffee and scratching on a napkin. The napkin contains
> several use cases and a diagram like the attached.
>
> From your expert position and experience, what few words of wisdom
> would you provide to the re-user?
>
> There are decades of articles, ideas, and theories. There are
> examples coded for various pieces. There are great open source
> projects that have answers to parts of the attached diagram.
>
> (Note: this is NOT a funded project. it is merely a learning
> experience for the re-user.)
>
> How does one build quality integrable ontology utilizing excellent
> efforts that have gone before? where are the starting points? where
> are the pitfalls?
> (05)
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