- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:05:26 -0400
- To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 04:11:43PM +1000, Luke Steller wrote: > On ontologies, to clarify, if two web services use two different > ontologies they cannot understand one another. However if someone > defines a 3rd ontology, that maps the parts of the seperate ontologies > together, or if these two seperate ontologies reference other ontologies > which in turn reference the same ontology, then they can understand one > another. Wouldn't that be a whole lot easier (tractable?) if there were a pervasively deployed set of methods that could serve as a grounding? So instead of an agent sending up a hail Mary "getStockQuote" message with very little chance of it being understood, it could describe getStockQuotein relation to that ground, ala; <http://agent-a.org/process/getStockQuote> rdfs:subClassOf http:GET . Mark.
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