- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 17:36:15 +0100
- To: Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com>
- Cc: Matthias Samwald <matthias.samwald@meduniwien.ac.at>, w3c semweb HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli@gmail.com> writes: > The challenge of building ontologies is not technical, but > socio-political. I think this very much depends on the ontology that you are creating and what it's purpose is. When we created the karyotype ontology, there was no socio-political challenge at all; the knowledge was all there in the first place. The problem was to create a complex and repetitive ontology consistently, which behaved correctly. This is a technical challenge, which I think we solved. Another problem we are trying to address is linking the axiomatisation through to the documentation and provenance for that axiomatisation; again, a largely technical challenge. There are challenges associated with getting agreement and coming to an consensus, of course, but these are hardly unique to ontology building. Phil
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