UOS-conveners: (01)
Mike Uschold is concerned about the seeming overly broad wording of
the announcement sent to UOS panelists and key participants (lines
added for segmentation):
[MU] >> Everything you said, Pat, is as if the goal I was troubled
with was
worded:
>> ---------
to increase public awareness of the maturity and capabilities of
UPPER ONTOLOGIES,
in the broader context of maturing ontology technology for
automating information
analysis and exploitation.
>> -------
>> I have no trouble with this. But that is not how it was worded. I
was
objecting to the overly broad goal that had nothing to do with UO, per
se.
============== (02)
If no one has objections to Mike's rewording, that is satisfactory to
me as a more specific statement of the public-education goals (broad
goal # 2) of the UOS. (03)
----------- (04)
I would, however quibble with Mike's appended notion that the "broad
goal that had nothing to do with UO, per se". I think that use of an
upper ontology in some form has everything to do with achieving the
broad goals of semantic interoperability and effective reuse of
semantic information over the web. Inasmuch as there are more than a
few people who think that semantic interoperability and the "Semantic
Web" can be achieved without use of an upper ontology (whatever it is
called - "interlingua" is one alternative), I think that the panelists
might very well want to help inform those people about why they
actually need an upper ontology or its equivalent to formally specify
the meanings they want to add to their information. How to handle the
task technically and how to make use of the UOs easy enough to be
widely accepted are important details that would have to be resolved
after the meeting if the panelists decide to pursue those issues. (05)
Pat (06)
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