Here here, err on the side of saying things that are easy to argue or
demonstrate from actual experience. The ROI remarks fit this bill exactly. (01)
M. (02)
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From: West, Matthew R SIPC-DFD/321 [mailto:matthew.west@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:14 AM
To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
Subject: RE: [uos-convene] Other Approaches Too. (03)
Dear Bill, (04)
You say: (05)
> The point here is that the ROI from using ULO for both domain ontology
> construction and for integration is higher than similar attempts
> undertaken without ULO. (06)
I agree. (07)
I think this is what we really want to say, rather than whether it is essential
or indeispensible. It is a simple economic argument that ought to be listened
to by potential funders. (08)
Regards (09)
Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:uos-convene-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Bill Andersen
> Sent: 28 February 2006 23:47
> To: Upper Ontology Summit convention
> Subject: Re: [uos-convene] Other Approaches Too.
>
>
> Hey Mike,
>
> See below.
>
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 18:31 , Uschold, Michael F wrote:
>
> > To the extent that 'Indispensable' is a semantic dead-ringer for
> > 'essential', this suggestion amounts to changing 'essential' to
> > 'increasingly essential'.
> >
> > Also, indispensable and essential are pretty black and white
> > concepts, Either it is or it is not.
> >
> > It is not clear what 'increasingly essential's means. Nearer to a
> > state of being essential, crossing that b/w divide?
> >
> > The more I think about it, the more I'm ok with the other wording,
> > by I forget who.
> >
> > Something like "essential for affordable and ... semantic
> > interoperability"
> >
> > This is less controversial.
>
> I'm not certain that "less controversial" is something we
> ought to be
> shooting for. The very position that ULO brings something
> qualitatively different to building and successfully employing
> ontologies is what's being assumed in this forum by its
> participants. I don't know about the other "public" participants,
> but we at Ontology Works have had much success applying our ULO and
> Barry Smith documents similar success:
>
> Jonathan Simon, James Matthew Fielding and Barry Smith, "Using
> Philosophy to Improve the Coherence and Interoperability of
> Applications Ontologies: A Field Report on the Collaboration of
> IFOMIS and L&C", in Gregor Büchel, Bertin Klein and Thomas Roth-
> Berghofer (eds.), Proceedings of the First Workshop on
> Philosophy and
> Informatics. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz,
> Cologne: 2004, 65-72.
> http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/FOBKSI.pdf
>
> The point here is that the ROI from using ULO for both domain
> ontology construction and for integration is higher than similar
> attempts undertaken without ULO. Thus, I don't think Barry's
> wording
> is too strong at all. I would dare say that the onus is on
> those who
> advocate some other path to show that ULO does not have these
> differential ROI benefits. To do that, they would have to say how
> they, without ULO, would have reproduced all the same results - and
> at less cost. Such trade studies are sadly lacking.
>
> .bill
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