Hi Claude I think formally any construct of entities and relationships of this kind of complexity and scale is an ontology, however it is arrived at. The...
On good thing is an ontology can expand both its intent (schema) and its extent (individuals and assertions) as it grows. Of course, it is more common to...
I have problems opening that link: http://csc.media.mit.edu/ Perhaps you meant this one: http://csc.media.mit.edu/docs/conceptnet/webapi_client.html ??? M....
Perhaps you could elaborate, then, on the phrase: "...this kind of complexity and scale is an ontology, however it is arrived at." Thanks. ... From: Patrick...
... Oops. You're right, the link I gave times out. The MIT Media Lab has a proverbial inability to keep its various links functioning. Projects keep changing...
It would make more sense to focus on the whole sentence rather than a phrase from it. What's not clear to you about it? P Patrick Lambe Partner Tel: +65...
Ok...here's the complete sentence: "I think formally any construct of entities and relationships of this kind of complexity and scale is an ontology, however...
Don't many ontologies have a directed graph structure? I suspect Patrick is right just from looking at the Freebase wiki (Freebase is part of the technology...
I don't know how you reached that conclusion John. It's the construct of entities and relationships I'm referring to. It sounds complex to me because of the...
I have recently been looking at OWL2. I find OWL2 to be very coherent, simple, powerful and approachable. In this sense, I think an ontology is composed of the...
Jim, SKOS is a W3C standard OWL ontology for thesauruses, taxonomies, and other controlled vocabularies; why not use that? It (like all OWL ontologies) is ...
Hi Jim, Would love to hear more about your experiences using OWL2 to manage your thesaurus. Are you starting with SKOS? Are you linking multiple vocabularies...
I'm changing the subject, at the risk of breaking some thread readers, because Stephanie's honeymoon does seem to be over indeed. I find Jim Tivy's message...
Yes, good point - I looked at SKOS. We are thinking this should be extensible as well for implementation purposes it is more useful for us to say childOfTerm...
Hi Jim We sell an XML/DITA Content management system www.bluestream.com. As you know, a CMS is about managing content and the content is stored in Files. Our...
My Assertion is that OWL2 is revolutionary and is a general purpose data model just like the relational database model was revolutionary back in the 70s....
Jim, I'm curious, have you looked at Topic Maps at all? I'd be interested in your opinion of them. ... Jim, I'm curious, have you looked at Topic Maps at...
Marijane I go by the "simple as possible but no simpler" I am not expert on ontologies or descriptive logic. I do have some expertise in data models (data...
I don't know if they're quite as simple as that. The Topic Maps family of standards have many similarities to the Semantic Web standards, as well as some very...
Yes I hear you I am probably not the guy to ask - I did a quick inspection of Topic Maps and do not find them as fundamentally interesting as OWL2. I guess my...
I am still a student of these subjects, too -- I guess that's why I'm still looking for answers! I know one reason why we end up with multiple approaches to...
Sure My advice for everyone is to start with OWL2 then describe where it is lacking. I still have some unsettling thoughts when I think about whether a class ...
If you declare childOfTerm as a subproperty of skos:broader, then an OWL engine (or technically, an RDFS engine, which requires a lot less computing power than...
John is not the only one who has Dog issues. If Dog is a class in OWL2 how can you say that Jim likes Dogs if Jim is an individual? These are some edges I am...
Yes, exactly From: TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob DuCharme Sent: May-25-12 2:32 PM To: TaxoCoP@yahoogroups.com ...
