Re: [ontology-summit] [Making the Case] Elevator Pitch

[Ron Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/01/2011 1:37 PM, Anders Tell wrote:

On Jan 29, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Pavithra wrote:

I have two thing for sound bites.. a not so formal one, and  formal one..

"With Ontology say the same thing, mean the same thing, process the same thing, everywhere"

I wonder do we really need this? If we examine the situation a little closer then reasons for variability appears.

A few examples: 

  Legislation forces different point of views across border and inside countries.

  Product: there a quite a few work perspective that view Product differently from different point-of-view and so it is likely to be. The need for specialization of work perspectives seems to be inevitable in larger organizations.

 ... more than 10+ major reasons for large scale variability can easily be found.

/anders

Anders W. Tell

+1
An organization will have to deal with and mediate many different ontologies - industry standards, military specs, banks, different government departments from different national and local governments, insurance, payroll companies, etc. not to mention different departments within the organization.

It is not realistic to think that these will all be compatible or based on the same low-level concepts. The organization will have to build or buy adapters and interfaces to make these work together.
It would be nice if they came with meta-data that made this process easier and more reliable.

Ron
 

 
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