John Sowa says:
> And by the way, I *detest* the word "folksonomy". First of all, the
word "folk" implies some derogatory or deprecating attitude. (01)
I don't see why this is so. A person may choose to view it that way, but
there is no implication. (02)
After all, 'folklore' does not imply a , unless perhaps you are a stuffy
academic historian. By analogy, a stuffy academic semantic web logician
might also view a folksomony that way, compared to a proper logically
based ontology. In neither case, do these attitudes detract from the
useful role these things play in their context. (03)
Mike (04)
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From: John F. Sowa [mailto:sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] PLEASE, PLEASE!! (07)
Steve, (08)
That is certainly true: (09)
> ... don't forget that the question is really "can we define > a
scale within which one can place true ontologies, thesauri, >
folksonomies, etc.?". To answer that, we MAY have to answer > "what is
an ontology". (010)
Not only "may", but "must". (011)
My answer to the question is that an ontology serves as a map between
natural languages and artificial languages. (012)
That puts type hierarchies at the center, with links to NL lexical
resources such as WordNet on one side and links to implementations such
as Cyc on the other side. (013)
And by the way, I *detest* the word "folksonomy". First of all, the
word "folk" implies some derogatory or deprecating attitude.
Yet some of those things embody more insight into the issues than some
of the things that use a formal notation. (014)
For any resources that we use or analyze, I suggest that we adopt the
terminology that their developers use to characterize them.
I don't know of anybody who calls their own work "a folksonomy". (015)
John (016)
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