- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:10:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Pat Hayes wrote: > >> The term ontology may be unfamiliar to many readers of > >> this document. > >> > >> That seems superfluous. I suggest striking it. > >> > >> This notion of ontologies comes from Artificial Intelligence, > >> where ontologies are used to allow heterogeneous systems to > >> exchange and reason with information. > >> > >> I'd suggest either citing specific work in this area > >> or striking the reference to Artificial Intelligence. > > I agree. In any case, you could equally well cite data modelling > languages, say; and the basic ideas go back way before AI if you want > to get historical, at least to the 1940s and maybe the 1880s. On the prior art front, it wouldn't do any harm to chuck in a nod to http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/categories.html ...though wouldn't want to overstretch the historical parallel or we'll find ourselves listing everyone who has every thought about cateogies, taxonomies and formal models. Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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