- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@clarkparsia.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:39:55 -0500
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:55 +0000, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > Kendall Clark wrote: > > > Thus, while I think Jeremy's line of inquiry is interesting enough to > > pursue, and I did actually do some work on it back in 2000, it's not > > something that computer scientists, qua computer scientists, are > > especially well prepared to work on. It's a question of the politics of > > technology or social informatics more broadly construed, and should be > > approached w/ the tools, methods, and background knowledge of the > > practitioners of *those* disciplines. > > > >> > Any pointers appreciated. > >> > > >> > Jeremy > > > > Thanks to both Kendall and Dan for the links .... No problem. > One thing that is different with computer science ontologies, and > perhaps Web ontologies is simply that they are typically more rigorously > defined. More rigorously defined than what? > Thus, a hypothesis such as "excessive use of owl:complentOf may indicate > some specific social phenonemenon" can be investigated somewhat more > cleanly than when dealing with classifications defined only with natural > langauge text. I suppose; but that still seems like a hypothesis from some field other than computer science. Cheers, Kendall
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