- From: Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:36:27 +0100
- To: "webont" <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:owl+owl Gets 2110 hits as of today. Not sure how many distinct owl files that makes, but it figures ... Could be a good idea to see how it grows. Searching for some popular classes I found 92 hits for "person" http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:owl+person 49 hits for "event" http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:owl+event Again I did not check yet how many different definitions of "Person" and "Event" this really amounts to, but it would be interesting enough to investigate a bit more about the following questions. - How many classes http://foo#Person are already around there ? - What can be learnt from their mutual reference, equivalence, independence, consistency ? - Will people keep on re-defining "Person", or eventually cluster around a small number of reference ontologies ? I was thinking that such popular classes could be used to track the evolution of distributed ontologies, and the way authors will play the re-using game. In short, scalability of the SW dream ... Maybe food for some SW Ph.D :)) Bernard Vatant Senior Consultant Knowledge Engineering Mondeca - www.mondeca.com bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
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