Re: [pedantic-web] Ontology Wars? Concerned

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> Nathan wrote:
>> Perhaps I'm missing something, but the primary focus for me is to use
>> ontologies that people will be using in SPARQL (or alternative language)
>> queries. Anything else appears to be a waste of time.
>>
>> Multiple properties in multiple languages that appear to describe the
>> same thing make no logical sense to me whatsoever, and questioning my
>> own programming capabilities here, I don't see how they will to a
>> machine either.
>>   
> Ah! Now your going to the next stage, and this is where UMBEL [1] gets
> interesting :-) It provides you with a framework meshing
> ontologies to reflect your particular world view i.e., you can use UMBEL
> (as is), or your adaptation (i.e. you additional mappings) as an
> inference rules context.
> 
> 1. http://umbel.org
> 

thanks again kingsley :)

Received on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 19:56:54 UTC