Re: Ontology Working Group Proposal Draft

Hi Vipul and All --

This looks like a nice draft.

I do have a question please.  It's about:

"The current definition of an ontology as enunciated by the W3C needs to be 
examined and extended if required. Ontology as a model of use needs to be 
emphasized in contrast to ontology as a model of meaning."

In admittedly limited reading of the ontology literature, I have formed the 
impression that "ontology as a model of meaning" is what OWL is about, 
while "ontology as a model of use" often seems to require tools that are 
built on top of OWL.

Maybe I have this completely wrong.  But if not, perhaps the draft should 
be extended to say something like the above?

To try to ground this a bit in something that a healthcare practitioner or 
a clinical researcher
might in future find useful, there are some pointers below to some examples 
that one can run using a browser.

Hope this helps.

                                       -- Adrian

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RelBioOntDefn3.agent

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/TransitiveOver1.agent

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RDFQueryLangComparison1.agent

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OwlResearchOnt.agent

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/MergeOntologies1.agent

http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OntologyInterop2.agent



Internet Business Logic (R)
Executable open vocabulary English
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com
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Adrian Walker
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Received on Sunday, 5 February 2006 17:15:32 UTC