John, (01)
Thank you for asking: (02)
> What does ontology add? (03)
Here is a starting offer, hopefully not unduly compressed: (04)
Ontology the discipline helps discover real conceptual commonality with
greater ubiquity and permanence, and further helps invent deliverable
ontologies or sharable conceptual structures that information systems can
manipulate to help people create, cultivate and exploit ever more such
social capital. (05)
Yes, that is of course a biased version, implicitly culminating in the
notion of "Ontology Chemistry" which I am busy building up to in a
multi-part series of posts on "Ontology as the basis of The Mainstream of
Software Engineering and Social Apps". (The second and still the latest
published part, itself copying the first, is now archived at
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2014-11/msg00018.html.) (06)
Whereas Part II was merely a provisional survey of the internal or technical
aspects of the proposal, the coming parts of the series will expand on and
link the 2 occurrences of the word "social" above, and elaborate the
chemistry metaphor. (07)
You will see how that metaphor captures the spectacular outcomes envisioned.
For example, not only will the notion of Social Apps be transformed into the
constructive path to useable social capital, but search will be reshaped by
the thereby-enabled market to render it more demand-oriented, while yet
embodying the sort of privacy features that the IDESG, entrusted with the
NSTIC strategy, rather forlornly dreams of. (08)
And thereby, in answer to John's question, ontology, with the vital help of
the ontology community in future more in The Mainstream of Software
Engineering, will add a whole lot more than it does now! (09)
(I hasten to point out that it is implicit in that last paragraph that there
are significant areas in the full picture where the present skills of
ontologists will most usefully complement the work of this plain Software
Engineer in the unfolding evolution of Ontology Chemistry.) (010)
Christopher (011)
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On 11/7/2014 11:31 PM, Jack Ring wrote:
> It may be useful to note that the shift in focus is from what a system
> IS to what a system DOES. Net-centric emphasized the happenings among
> the things. (013)
I agree that some shift -- any shift -- away from "IS" would be useful.
The word 'ontology', by itself, just means the study of existence.
Formal ontology is just the use of formal notations and methods for doing
that study. Unless you have some other goal, that doesn't give you much
guidance. (014)
In addition to asking "What is it?", you can get somewhat more guidance if
you then ask "What does it do?" (015)
But I'd also like to cite the full line from Michael G's note:
> Internet of Everything: Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies (016)
That subtitle helps to give a bit more guidance. But I'd also like to ask
an embarrassing question: In the initial analysis stage, does formal
ontology give us any more help or guidance than the old 20th-century methods
of systems analysis? (017)
There was a huge amount of work on structured systems analysis.
Some notations and methods used logic, and others were more informal.
And some informal systems, such as UML, were later formalized. (018)
What does ontology add? (019)
John (020)
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