Re: [ontology-summit] A Powerpoint communique?

[My Coyne <mcoyne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

At my work, I provide both: powerpoint for presentation and a paper for much more details.  Recently, dues to difficulty of explaining ontology, I decided to pitch a prototype using powerpoint, concentrating in the flow of information and very little on ontology modeling and "how" I was able to query data using the underline ontology.  When "business" or subject domain experts are interested, they started talking about their own use cases; then more information about the ontology was revealed.  (Hence I totally understand "Blank stares" that someone said before in this forum)

My Coyne
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On Mon 21/03/11 11:47 PM , Michael F Uschold uschold@xxxxxxxxx sent:

It occurred to me that our target audience (business people who can make decisions) may be more likely to see a Powerpoint pitch than wade through 4-6 pages of text.  

Which would YOU be more inclined to look at?  

What are your thoughts?

For me, I personally prefer to read a good paper for a topic that interests me. Nevertheless,  it takes less than a minute to scan through a slide deck and get enough of the gist to decide to read more carefully.  If people wrote excellent abstracts, I could do the same for a text document, but you can never trust that they will.

Michael 

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