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From: | Chris Partridge <partridge.csj@xxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:49:44 +0100 |
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Hi Leo,
I'm caught in the middle - vis a vis Pat's queries about "Ontology development shares strong similarities with information systems development..." - if one is using ontologies in information systems development, one would expect a priori some link. However, as I have been noting for a while the existing information systems development methodologies are light (in some cases non-existent - RUP springs to mind) in the areas in which ontologies (and epistemologies) could be applied.
Also there seems a trend in IS development to increasingly ignore the areas in which ontology might contribute to development and focus on the physical implementation issues. So Pat's comment "We do not have enough experience with ontology design and deployment" seems right in the information systems area - and I'm not sure looking at Cyc (as Pat suggests) could really help, as this is not a typical information system - though maybe people will argue it is what will replace existing systems.
I would agree with you (Leo) that "an ontology lifecycle regimen is absolutely needed", the problem is what this should look like. And the whole issue of methodologies for legacy modernisation is a vexed one - there are next to none despite this being a growing requirement (for information systems rather than ontologies). As for "And it largely uses but expands on the software development cycle" this seems to me little disingenuous. In my experience, the easy option of feeding the ontology development into the software development cycle has been taken - and I suspect that questions about whether the whole process can be rationalised have not really been looked at. Regards, Chris On 22 April 2013 23:08, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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