Amanda --
As an outsider, I heartily endorse any effort by the Ontolog
community to create a shared understanding of its work in Knowledge
Representation and I volunteer to assist in that process.
I see substantial overlap of KR with -- or support for -- the
following disciplines, practices, standards, and technologies ...
some of which go under many different names, but all of which would
benefit from a shared understanding of the foundational role of
semantics in communication among people as well as in development of
methods and tools for supporting common "semantic" activities.
-- Representation of individual, discipline-based, and
organizational knowledge
-- Integration of individual and organizational knowledge, often
associated with "Knowledge Management"
-- Online research, in general
-- Pragmatics
-- Computer-supported brainstorming and "mind-mapping"
-- Computer-supported argumentation
-- Concept-mapping (less formal ontologies)
-- Formal representation of non-fictional narratives (Gian Pierro
Zarri’s NKRL and ?)
-- Discourse Analysis
-- Specification languages
-- Personal Information Management tools
-- Knowledge Organization (in Library and Information Science)
-- "Corporate taxonomies"
... and many others, because communications among people and
machines about the real world are all essentially "semantic." Posts
to the Ontolog forum have mentioned these and other domains over the
past 8 years or so that I have been following the discussions.
I don't see such an effort as establishing prescriptive positions on
KR topics, although it would be helpful to differentiate widely
shared positions from those with limited support ... without passing
judgment on their validity. But it is very difficult for an outsider
to differentiate commonly held positions in the KR community from
those which are held by few.
And, without tons of research, it is equally difficult for an
outsider to distinguish foundational KR principles from minor
quibbles about terminology.
For these reasons, I believe, again from an outsider's perspective,
that the KR community is missing big opportunities.
Many pointless re-inventions of work already done by the KR
community might also be averted.
Many repetitive discussions on the forum might be shortened by being
able to reference resolutions of previous topics, too.
Perhaps there are existing resources that serve this purpose well,
but I have not found them.
Some of my evolving thoughts on the subject are available at:
Meaning and the New Economy, http://semanticmarketplace.com/
Thanks,
Phil Murray
Amanda Vizedom wrote:
Gary, I've been trying to get that going for the
last few Ontology Summits, but so far others aren't joining in.
It really needs to be collectively built and curated (for
quality and effeciency, IMHO. I am not a librarian, but I came
to applied ontology through social epistemology, and I very much
believe in this). I thought the Zotero tool would work
reasonably well for that, but it hasn't taken. I haven't tried
setting one up for Ontolog, or for the applied ontology
community more broadly, but if there were general interest I
could set that up and import the libraries (such as they are)
from the Summits).
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