Re: [ontology-summit] Proposed draft wording for opening part of communi

[Deborah MacPherson <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Couple suggestions for shorter sentences and getting tenses to agree. Original text is below with highlights at changes: red highlight is removed, yellow is modified, green is added.

 

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Deborah

 

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Practical ontology development is becoming increasingly important - as witnessed for example by growing interest in the Semantic Web. Ontologies that are properly developed can significantly contribute to better understanding of diverse problem domains. Formal ontologies provide processes and methodologies to model information in ways that go beyond more limited scopes often encountered when modelling specific applications or functions.

 

As a result, trained ontologists (whether that be a formal job title, a functional role, or implicit in the work of an organisation) are in ever greater demand.

 

Our concern therefore, is to recognise that the role of 'ontologist' is a unique discipline that requires a distinct set of interdisciplinary skills. As the demand for trained ontologists increases, we need to examine and define the role of formal education and training in providing the ontologists of tomorrow."

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On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Peter F Brown (Pensive) <Peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As promised, here is a first cut of a possible introduction text for the communiqué.
This is the strawman, not me - please beat appropriately.

"Practical ontology development is of increasing importance - as witnessed for example by the growing interest in the Semantic Web - and contributes a better understanding of particular problem domains. It also provides formal processes and methodologies to address information modelling in a way that goes beyond the more limited scopes often encountered when modelling for specific applications or functions.

"As a result, ontologists (whether that be a formal job title, a functional role or implicit in the work of an organisation) are in ever greater demand.

Our concern therefore, it to recognise that the role of 'ontologist' ss a specific discipline that requires, as does any discipline, a distinct set of skills. As these skills are in more demand, we need therefore to examine the role of formal education and training in providing us with the ontologists of tomorrow."

Peter


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