- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:26:40 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
At 4:10 PM -0500 2/18/02, Dan Brickley wrote: >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 > I'd like to suggest we have no specific references (and thus strike the AI one), I'm open to some sort of on-line repository for citations where we point the reader in this document, but I think we want to make it clear that there is a long history to this, and if we start trying to cite all relevant work we will never finish. A note that there is much work we are not citing, and a pointer to web space where that list is/grows is fine. Most W3C documents don't have much in the way of citations, and this document seems to me a particularly inappropriate place to start. -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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