RE: "information resource"

I pulled the Gruber reference from an article I wrote for the defunct MIT
Markup Languages magazine.  It referenced the following articles:

[Gruber 1993] Gruber, Thomas. "Toward Principles for the Design 
of Ontologies Used in Knowledge Sharing".
http://ksl-web.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/papers/onto-design.rtf

[Gruber 1997] Gruber, Tom. "What is an Ontology?"
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html


From: www-tag-request@w3.org [mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of
Stuart Williams

>I think of it in the traditional sense of "ontological 
>commitment" per Thomas Gruber.
>
>"An ontology should require the minimal ontological 
>commitment sufficient to support the intended knowledge 
>sharing activities... Since ontological commitment is based 
>on consistent use of vocabulary, ontological commitment can 
>be minimized by specifying the weakest theory (allowing 
>the most models) and defining only those terms which are 
>essential to the communication of knowledge consistent 
>with that theory."
>  
>

Cool... I should read some more of him.