On 01/02/2011 4:07 AM, Matthew West wrote:
> Dear Ron,
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>> Until there are production quality tools and a production quality
>> framework that allows a developer to build applications faster and more
>> reliably using ontologies, I just don't see how ontology gets out of the
>> academic world.
>> It is a nice way to unambiguously describe a section of the universe
>> (provided you don't try to bring it here for validation:-) ) but how
>> much value does it have, if I have to translate the whole thing back
>> into a schema or data dictionary or set of Hibernate configuration files
>> and UML models to actually build something.
> MW: Seems to me that UML may be the tool you are looking for, and that you
> are presuming an ontology has to exist in some particular environment to be
> an ontology. I would want to challenge that assumption.
That is not my claim at all. (01)
In order to be useful for building systems that use ontologies at
runtime to drive the processing, it has to be part of an application
development framework. (02)
To be a reference doc that programmers interpret and turn into code, it
can be handwritten in English but the verification of the ontology has
no bearing on the correctness of the code. (03)
>> I think that I am looking for a framework that lets me specify a lattice
>> of ontologies with their interfaces and a description of the SOA in
>> terms of inputs and desired flows and outputs and have the engine make
>> it fly.
> MW: I agree those tools do not exist and they would be useful.
>
I would like this to be part of the repository design. The repo should
include the metadata required to support a robust tool set. (04)
> Regards
>
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>> My time would be spent defining the local ontology (what is a "received
>> invoice" and what is an "approved invoice" and what is a "paid invoice"
>> or "partially paid" in our company) and validating that the rest of the
>> lattice's components from external sources match or can be interfaced.
>>
>> Ron
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