- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:38:52 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: Azamat <abdoul@cytanet.com.cy>, 'SW-forum' <semantic-web@w3.org>, public-lod@w3.org, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, dbpedia-announcements@lists.sourceforge.net
On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > > Azamat wrote: >> Monday, November 17, 2008 2:11 PM, Chris Bizer wrote: >> 'We are happy to announce the release of DBpedia version 3.2. ... >> More information about the ontology is found at: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Ontology' >> While opening, we see the following types of Resource, seemingly >> Entity or Thing: >> Resource (Person, Ethnic group, Organization, Infrastructure, >> Planet, Work, Event, Means of Transportation, Anatomic structure, >> Olympic record, Language, Chemical compound, Species, Weapon, >> Protein, Disease, Supreme Court of the US, Grape, Website, Music >> Genre, Currency, Beverage, Place). >> I am of opinion to support the developers even when they misdirect. >> But this 'classification' meant to be used for 'wikipedia's infobox- >> to-ontology mappings' is a complete disorder, having a chance for >> the URL http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Mess. >> Ontology is designed to put all things in their natural places, not >> to make mess of the real world; if you deal with chemical compound >> and protein, it requests an arrangement like as protein < >> macromolecule < organic compound < chemical compound < matter, >> substance < physical entity < entity. The same with other things, >> however hard, rocky and trying it may be. >> This test and trial proves again that any web ontology language >> projects, programming applications or semantic systems, are >> foredoomed without fundamental ontological schema. > > Is Wikipedia foredoomed also? > > Dan It may very well be, if your ontological commitment is that all things have "natural places", and the real world is not actually a mess. However, at least for the kind of ontology being discussed here, it seems to me that the ontology may not be so much *making* a mess of the real world as reflecting it. --Frank > > >> azamat abdoullaev > >
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