- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:56:15 -0500 (EST)
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- cc: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Jim Hendler wrote: > 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. All fair comment, and over academifying W3C specs would I agree be a mistake. That said, I've often wished Working Groups had to do literature reviews... Dan
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