John, (01)
Might suggest a tangential introduction, Interoperability.
The use of ontologies helps to make the semantics of a
system explicit. Explicitness is a core net-centric principle. (02)
Todd (03)
> On 4/7/2011 1:20 AM, Michael F Uschold wrote:
>> Did you get a chance to put together the introduction paragraphs?
>
> I'm still working on it.
>
> As you may have noticed, I can write 3 paragraphs very quickly in
> response to an email note. But trying to think of a good "hook"
> for a title of an article or an opening paragraph of the article
> is extremely difficult.
>
> I'll sleep on it. If I can think of anything when I wake up, I'll
> type it up. But right now, I can't think of what to say.
>
> Exercise for the readers:
>
> 1. Can anybody think of some idea that would really grab the readers'
> attention -- i.e., the readers we want to reach.
>
> 2. It's not necessary to phrase that idea in a catchy way. The first
> thing that comes to mind is rarely a good hook, but it can be a
> starting point to start the thinking process.
>
> 3. The second paragraph should be the "anecdote", which develops the
> idea. That could consist of one or more examples of promising
> applications for ontology, along the lines we discussed in our
> previous telecon.
>
> 4. Then the third paragraph generalizes the examples into a principle
> that could be applied to many things similar to the ones given
> in the anecdote(s).
>
> Notice that I just wrote up the material in this note very quickly.
> That is because I was talking about something that I had thought
> about years ago.
>
> But as I said in earlier telecons, my mind is a blank when it comes
> to selling ontology. I can write pages and pages *about* ontology,
> but I don't really know how to sell it.
>
> John
>
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