Re: [HCLS] Bridging Ontologies - with Foundational Ontologies

Personally I have seen/developed plenty of applications that use
domain specific/narrow ontologies but do not use any foundational/
top level ontologies.
Amit Sheth


Kashyap, Vipul wrote:
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>> Great to hear that! It really seems that most of the promises of semantic
>> web ontologies are only realised when top-level ontologies like DOLCE are
>> used. Maybe we should evaluate the potential use of DOLCE or BFO for the
>> BioRDF tasks?
>>     
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> [VK] Whereas I agree with the use of foundational ontologies, I may not agree
> with the sweeping generalization above. Significant potential can be realized by
> using not so formally organized resources such as the UMLS for instance.
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> ---Vipul
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