Todd
Yes - Find is more appropriate as Search is the sub process of finding.
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Ravi (01)
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Todd J Schneider
<todd.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like to suggest a small change to the (first)
> proposed method of the OOR specification.
>
> Instead of 'searchOntologyMetadata' I suggest
> 'findOntologies'. Of course, as agreed, to execute
> or actualize this method the system would need to
> search the metadata. But the intent, from a user's
> perspective, is to find the ontology/ontologies
> that meet their criteria (the arguments of the
> method): the what.
>
> Searching is a 'how'.
>
> Finding is a 'what'.
>
> And yes, I'm also appealing to the semantic
> differences between these two words. From
> WordNet 2.0,
>
> Search - the activity of looking thoroughly in
> order to find something
>
> Find - discover or determine the existence
>
> Again from a users perspective, and the one I
> think best used to understand the intent of any
> system, they want to find something. Searching
> is just one way to accomplish this.
>
> Todd
>
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