- From: David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:01:43 -0400
- To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com>, www-ws-arch@w3.org
At 02:15 PM 10/15/2002 -0600, Champion, Mike wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Booth [mailto:dbooth@w3.org] > > . . . > > What you have described is formally called an "ontology": > > http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0813-semweb-dbooth/slide37-0.html > >Uhh, Heather used the perfectly respectable and widely-understood term >"taxonomy." I'd suggest that the VERY LAST THING we need right now is >another terminology dispute :-) Goodness, I certainly wasn't trying to dispute Heather! And I sincerely apologize if she or anyone else took it that way. I just wanted to be sure that people knew we were talking about the same thing. My intent was no different than if she had described a mechanic's tool called a "wrench" and I pointed out that in the UK it is called a "spanner". Apologies again for any misunderstanding. >. . . >p.s. Hours after the telcon last week, I understood why David was stressing >the "two kinds of nouns and one verb" discipline. RDF predicates consist of >a subject-predicate-object triple ... two nouns and a verb :-) I appreciate the humor, but of course RDF had nothing to do with it. -- David Booth W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard Telephone: +1.617.253.1273
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