- From: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:35:31 -0700
- To: "'David Booth'" <dbooth@w3.org>, "'Champion, Mike'" <Mike.Champion@softwareag-usa.com>, <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
harumph. Seemed like YAATCWS2SW ( another attempt to couple web services to semantic web) to me. Especially claims like "What you have described is formally called an "ontology" .... if we do define a WS ontology for this purpose, then either RDF or W3C's emerging Web Ontology Language (known as "OWL") should be used". It also seemed more like Heather was describing a US measured wrench and you pointed out it was a spanner and said btw, we should use spanners as they have the correct standard for measurement (metric). Let's call it a D-Taxonomy for now. please. Cheers, Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: www-ws-arch-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-arch-request@w3.org]On > Behalf Of David Booth > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 2:02 PM > To: Champion, Mike; www-ws-arch@w3.org > Subject: RE: remembering business data and taxonomy in description > > > > 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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