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From: Mike Bennett <mbennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:43:20 +0000
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Hi Cory,

I wondered if that was what you meant after I wrote my comment - which was perhaps more in reaction to those many people who don't recognize something as an ontology unless it is in OWL and don't think it has a purpose other than to run in a reasoner. Of which you are not one, as I should have known.

Cheers,

Mike

On 04/02/2012 20:14, Cory Casanave wrote:

I think “enact” may have been misunderstood to imply only automated reasoning, which was not my intent.  Part of enacting any description (which is what an ontology ultimately is) may be primarily a human enactment gained from the mutual understanding of the ontology.  What the formalism of ontology provides is the ability for the human and automated enactment to be more synchronized and reliable.

-Cory

 

From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Bennett
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:19 PM
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Cory, David,

Interjecting one small comment:

On 02/02/2012 02:36, David Price wrote:

On 2/2/2012 1:37 AM, Cory Casanave wrote:

... the entire point of ontologies is to be able to “enact” what the ontology implies. 


Hi Cory,

...the entire point of ontologies is actually the formal clarity of definition that other technologies lack.


Surely both of these is a point of an ontology. Neither of them is the entire point, they are just the entire point of an ontology that one or another person has created.

Part of knowing if an ontology does what it was intended to do, is to have some clarity of what it is intended to do.

To some, being able to reason over an ontology and carry out semantic technology applications is the only reason to do one, and so for that ontology, that is the reason for it and the reason against which one can determine if it is right or not. To others, being able to formally pin down the meanings of concepts in some domain (perhaps for formally specifying the terms that are to be designed for in a database or message application, or perhaps not), is the only reason for doing that ontology. So different verification and validation measures would apply. In both cases, it's wise to write down what you thought was obvious to everybody, because (a) nothing is ever as obvious as you think and (b) it might not have been the only reason to do a thing.

Mike



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