On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Uschold, Michael F wrote: (01)
>
> MIkeU said:
>
>> Oh, and by the way, the big elephant in the room is the fact that:
>>
>> It is the rarest of exceptions these days, that an application even
>> HAS an ontology, but hey, for the sake of this summit, shall we all
>> pretend that they do?
>>
>
> Nicola Replied:
>
> Either implicit or explicit, every application has it's own
> "conceptualization" of a domain of interest. Surely, only in few cases
> these conceptualizations are made explicit.
> --
>
> True. The difficulty is if there is no explicit ontology or schema
> for a
> given application, then there is nothing that can be mapped TO a
> common
> UO. Hence, what is the value of a UO in this case? (02)
Clearly almost zero, in this case. Maybe an UO can help "reverse
engineering" the implicit conceptualization, though. (03)
Cheers, (04)
Nicola (05)
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