Leo, Fabian (01)
I agree with you in principle. Sadly, the experience in the medical community
is that this has not always been the case. (02)
The link between the applications and ontology development has often been week.
Ambitions for global "reference terminologies" lead to artefacts built by
committees some of whose originators - e.g. IHTSDO/SNOMED CT - even disclaim
responsibility for how they should be used - e.g. for the "interface
terminologies" necessary to make them accessible - and leave this to others. (03)
Large scale reference ontologies - or models of any kind - can also be caught
by conflicts of requirements from multiple potential users - clinical care,
statistical reporting, billing, speed of use, etc. (04)
The results have not always been happy. (05)
Hence my concern to emphasise on issues of scope. (06)
Regards (07)
Alan (08)
On 20 Dec 2012, at 02:07, John F Sowa wrote: (09)
> Leo, Fabian, et al.,
>
> Leo
>> application is always in mind, I think, when you develop an ontology.
>> What, after all, are requirements? Requirements for what? ...
>> The application may be very general or very specific: provide
>> a superstructure for mid-level and domain ontologies for semantic
>> interoperability (of systems)...
>
> Fabian
>> Yes, the development of reference ontologies are influenced
>> by the requirements of several existing or expected applications.
>> I completely agree. (010)
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