At 3:56 PM -0700 3/31/08, Natasha Noy wrote:
>Fabian,
>
>Thank you very much for the nice summary.
>
>> == Summary: Gatekeeping/ Minimal Requirements ==
>>
>> 1. Openness (see below)
>> 2. /The ontology is expressed in a formal language with a well-defined
>> syntax./
>> 3. /The authors of the ontology provide the required metadata. /
>> 4. /The ontology has a clearly specified and clearly delineated scope.
>> /5. /Successive versions of an ontology are clearly identified.
>> /6. /The ontology has passed certain dynamic tests. /
>> 7. /The ontology has unique IDs for its terms. /
>> 8. /The ontology is adequately labeled. /
>> 9. /The ontology has a plurality of users.
>> /
>
>I have a question about #7, in particular vis-a-vis #2. Are there
>formal languages that allow terms in an ontology not to have unique
>IDs? Or is this talking about uniqueness *across* ontologies in OOR.
>
>If it is the requirement of uniqueness across all ontologies, then I
>strongly disagree -- and I suspect many will to, for the same reason
>that the OBO Foundry orthogonality principle doesn't apply here. (01)
Seems to me that this condition is harmless, as
it is automatic for OWL and RDFS and other SWeb
formalisms; and it requires only some qname-style
prefixing with a unique ontology label to ensure
it holds for anything else. (02)
Pat (03)
>If it is within a single ontology, then it is already implied by #2,
>and is not needed.
>
>Natasha
>
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