RE: Antwort: RE: Semantic web article in Nature Biotechnology

>It may sound strange at first, but when you create c:foo, you make an
>ontological commitment to certain reality.  People may like your
"foo", but
>not necessarily your "conceptualization" that your c:D is the same as
a:D.
>To make it this way, you give others a chance to use your c:foo
without
>subscribe your view to others.  If they like your "binding", they just
use
>your profile.  This extra work maximize ontology reuse, and the key of
SW's
>success is ontology reuse.
>

I've decided I like the notion of separating an ontology into local
assertions, and assertions that relate the ontology to "neighboring"
ontologies.  This mirrors closely the distinction between models and
mappings (in model management) or between schemata and mappings (in a
peer data management system).

The 'profile' can even contain additional coordination axioms, such as
src1:classA is equivalent to the union of src2:classB and src2:classC.
The authors of src1 can provide their intended coordination with src2,
but others can introduce other ways of coordinating src1 and src2.

Peter

Received on Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:22:47 UTC