eiif and ontology proper

Gary, and all

can you you please repeat the question that you had in commenting the
paragraph 'toward common ontology'?

When I first joined this group, the word *ontology* itself was avoided, to
avoid entering in the realm of the ' too abstract and complicated' to be
useful. Obviously members of this incubator have become more comfortable
using the term since we started and, inevitably now we have to become
semantically more precise.

So, if we have to talk about ontology in our draft framework document, this
would be a good time to start
doing so properly.

At the moment what we have is a schema, which in  itself it would be great
to have, because ultimately, in  a functinal sense,  that's what we need to
make the information flow a bit more coherent , functional and efficient.

To make sure that our schema is compatible with the grand scheme of things,
and universals and primitives, may require some additional refinement of our
conceptual model. This will result in our schema to be more versatile robust
and consistent and much more useful in time.

Please share your thoughts with us, and let's ponder what choices we have to
confront to move our work up to the metaphysical ladder (hehe, joking)

Guido Vetere who has recently joined this group said that he is going to
send some considerations and suggestions on how to model our schema to
comply with DOLCE,

http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/DOLCE2.1-FOL.pdf

which I very much look forward to seeing his contribution


Gary, which foundational ontology have you worked with before? What would be
your suggestions to
align our work with top level categories of sorts?

I think it is a challenge for bottom up schemas (what we are doing now) to
comply with foundational requirements,
as well as it is a chellenge for foundational ontologies to be
adopted/applied in bottom up schemas creation

So  starting thinking in terms of ontology proper is an interesting and
important exercise that we cannot longer postpone
and hopefully we'll learn what we need to learn along the way


pdm







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Paola Di Maio
School of IT
MFU.ac.th
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