Kathy and All, (01)
Thank you, Kathy. (02)
I suppose any additional input that doesn't fit well into the form can
be entered into the "Final Comments" (free-form, catch-all) space. ...
I'd encourage anyone who has yet to tackle the survey to do so. (03)
(Given that you cannot get back into your survey response again ...)
Feel free to send us those additional input via email so we might
incorporate it into the final synthesis. (04)
Thanks & regards. =ppy
-- (05)
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Kathryn B Laskey <klaskey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On the education survey, it asked if my institution had an ontology
> program or ontology-related courses. The next question asked what
> academic program offered the ontology-related courses. It did not
> seem possible on that survey, to say that more than one department or
> academic program offered ontology-related courses. This seems to be a
> serious shortcoming of the survey.
>
> Kathy
>
> On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Peter Yim wrote:
>
>> Matthew,
>>
>>
>>> [MW] [The questions] seemed to me to have a somewhat grandiose and
>>> unrealistic view of what ontology is and its place in the wider
>>> world.
>>
>> [ppy] ... Not trying to be defensive here, but thanks for providing
>> the chance to explain why we had this 3rd set - the Real-Time Delphi
>> Study on the Future of Ontologists, their Education and the Field of
>> Ontology
>>
>> As described under:
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_Survey#nid28DS
>> In this set, "being practical" wasn't part of the intent. While no one
>> can really predict the future, a collective vision of "those who
>> should know better" might just help us get a glimpse of what is in
>> store for us in the future.
>>
>> As Alan Kay put it: "The best way to predict the future is to invent
>> it." ... we are hoping that each of us here (as members of the expert
>> panel in this RTDelphi study) can put our visionary hat on for a
>> little bit, and share what future they *are* trying to invent for this
>> field ... and, the collection of those thoughts may converge (or
>> polarized, or whatever, ... we don't know until we are able to collect
>> the thoughts) and should, at the least, be interesting to this
>> community.
>>
>>
>>> ... did not think the questions were particularly good.
>>
>> [ppy] they weren't supposed to be "questions" as much as they are
>> statements to elicit reactions to "developments" of significance. The
>> "developments" were essentially culled from an earlier community
>> session we had (OntologySummit2010: Panel Session-1) - see:
>>
>http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2010_FutureDevelopments_Synthesis#nid25HJ
>>
>> Please just treat them as the issues that are framing the discussion,
>> and the input boxes as the workspaces to which one may post their
>> comments (in lieu of making mailing list posts to specific threads.)
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your input. Really appreciate it. Do consider going in
>> again, to review your responses and others' as they start to
>> accumulate, and possibly tweak your opinion (as you deem fit) any time
>> before the close of the study.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & regards. =ppy
>>
>> P.S. apologies for the user interface (which, recognizably, has room
>> for improvement) ... but it's the content (and not the form) that is
>> important. =ppy
>> --
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Matthew West <dr.matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well I’ve had a go at the Delphi Questionnaire. I’m glad I waited
>>> for others
>>> to find and point out the issues filling it in.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I also have to say that I did not think the questions were
>>> particularly
>>> good. They seemed to me to have a somewhat grandiose and
>>> unrealistic view of
>>> what ontology is and its place in the wider world.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew West
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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