- From: AzamatAbdoullaev <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:57:57 +0300
- To: "Chum, Frank Y" <FChum@chevron.com>
- Cc: <semantic-web@w3c.org>, "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net>, <rich@englishlogickernel.com>, "Pieter De Leenheer" <pdeleenh@vub.ac.be>, "Paola Di Maio" <paoladimaio10@googlemail.com>
FC: There WILL BE (some may say, already are) multiple O&G industry standards out there from the different standard organizations -- some open, some not so open. AA: Big science and technology are increasingly converging, while Big Industry is increasingly diverging. ISO announces that "ISO has developed over 17500 International Standards on a variety of subjects and some 1100 new ISO standards are published every year." http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue.htm Only on petroleum and related products, there are as many standards as: Extraction and processing of petroleum and natural gas; Crude petroleum; Natural gas; Petroleum products in general; Lubricants, industrial oils and related products; ., Equipment for petroleum and natural gas industries; Petroleum products and natural gas handling equipment; Including petroleum and natural gas storage devices, distribution systems, pipelines, petrol stations, dispensing devices, etc. That strikes as a standards anarchy, seemingly motivated by profit, as Rich suggested. The situation is in need of ontological structuring and ordering, and an industry master ontology is a real help :). Azamat Abdoullaev http://standardontology.org
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