Dear Matthew West and Colleagues,
I agree with what is said below !
All right, Technical Rules and Tools are better than "Genius" to implement
Objects in Databases !
Team work, even in the most ancient times when prominent individuals had
opportunities to make spectacular progress, is absolutely required by
Scientific Procedures, and even, Methods as i consider they should be Heuristic
exploration of new ways !
Here, we need Tools, Tools, and more Tools !
I sent a mail to <<www.ifomis.com>> quoted by one of the speakers.
Even if OWL doesn't give Graph tools others than Trees,
it is a way to build "shared" representations, and not only for deseases or
medical equipments !
So, why from this Summit we couldn't Build a "Common Reference" of What an
Ontology should be ?
Eventually with the Tools associated, as, in Medecine, Equipments are
nowadays as important as Nosology juste to take this example !
Happy to share these research with you all !
Eric Beaussart.
> Message du 10/02/13 12:16
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> Objet : [ontology-summit] {quality-methodology} Why an Ontology Development Methodology?
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> Dear Colleagues,
> This is the first of a series of emails I intend to write to reflect on the
> excellent session we had last Thursday. If you haven't were unable to attend
> and haven't had the chance to catch up, the archive is here:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2013_02_07
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> The session was particularly focussed on methodologies for integrating
> ontologies. These tend to be large, but relatively light weight ontologies
> aimed at providing a common language across a number of applications so that
> information can be shared among them and gathered from them and compared
> sensibly. Integrating ontologies typically have large and distributed
> development teams, which makes the consistency that is necessary for success
> a particular challenge.
>
> I was particularly struck by one slide in Mike Bennett's presentation that
> made the point about the balance between genius and methodology.
> Essentially, two approaches to a range of problems are that you can hire
> lots of very bright people ad ruthlessly reinvent when you have problems, or
> you can apply a methodology and an improvement process and grind your way to
> a better place.
>
> One thing that is for sure is that in the general development and extension
> of a large integrating ontology, the last thing you want is lots of bright
> people inventing new ways to do the same thing. What you want are relatively
> tight controls so that when something new is added, it ends up being done
> the same way with the same result, no matter who in the development team
> does it. At least one reason for this is that if two different people do
> identify the same requirement, and try to add something to meet that
> requirement, they will then discover what each other is doing, thus avoiding
> duplication.
>
> That is not to say that there is no room for bright people being creative in
> the development of integrating ontologies, the methodology itself needs to
> be developed and adjusted as weaknesses are found, but you do not want
> people being creative about how they add another type of pump or another
> disease of the lung to the ontology.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew West
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