My comment was that the broad goal of getting buy in from the community
that ontology technology and ontologies are good and wonderful and
valuable has nothing specific to do with upper ontologies, as opposed to
any other ontology or ontology technologies. (01)
Your comments, that I broadly agree with, are consistent with my above
remark, so I don't think we are disagreeing. (02)
Mike (03)
-----Original Message-----
From: Cassidy, Patrick J. [mailto:pcassidy@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:46 AM
To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
Subject: RE: [uos-convene] RE: Upper Ontology Summit (04)
UOS-conveners: (05)
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.
============== (06)
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. (07)
----------- (08)
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. (09)
Pat (010)
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