Andrea, John: One concern I have with this line of thinking is that it appears as if it considers that only an ontology can be used to characterize other ontologies for retrieval and reuse purposes. I’m not an ontology expert or a logician, and maybe one can capture all the salient attributes regarding the scope of applicability of any given ontology with such an ontology of/about ontologies, but I believe it would be smart to consider other/additional means of characterizing ontologies for retrieval and utilization decision purposes. Such means may well be grounded in ontologies of specific knowledge and human institutional domains, but could be expressed in simpler domain-specific attribute terms. I believe this would simplify initial searches for relevant ontologies for someone in a particular application or institutional domain. It could also broaden the potential audience for discovering relevant ontologies. Another concern I have is this notion that an integrating ontology should not be “open-ended”. What happens if someone develops an ontology that doesn’t fit into the integrating ontology in a way that makes it easy to discover for its intended purpose? What’s wrong with open-endedness for such a purpose? Do we already know all the possible domains for which we will have ontologies? Hans From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrea Westerinen
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontolog Ontology of Ontologies John and John, In as much as the "integrating" ontology is an "ontology about ontologies (and their concepts)" ... yes, it is a meta-ontology. However, I find that people handle the term, "integrating ontology", much better. And, it conveys the purpose (as opposed to being open-ended). Given that some of my customers view ontologies with some skepticism (they call ontology, the "o-word"), I much prefer avoiding adding scary modifiers onto a scary word. (That is just my experience.) |
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