- From: Amit Sheth <amit@cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:36:14 -0400
- To: "Kashyap, Vipul" <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- CC: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, ogbujic@bio.ri.ccf.org, Donald Doherty <donald.doherty@brainstage.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
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: > >> 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? >> > > [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. > > ---Vipul > >
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