Call for vote on SUO Scope and Purpose
[I sent this message yesterday July 26, but it seems that it did not arrive
at its destination.]
A qualified YES. My preference would be for a less monolithic
onto-structure, with ontologies connected by ontomorphisms (morphisms of
ontologies) - a preliminary study, a very simple entified version, occurs in
my ISKO6 paper at http://www.ontologos.org/Papers/ISKO6/ISKO6.pdf). This
less monolithic onto-structure would consist of a top level ontology that
only defines the structure of ontologies, an improved version of the Cyc
Kernel DB http://www.cyc.com/cycl.html#appendixa if you will, with many
upper level building block ontologies just "below" it in an extension
hierarchy. Then the "large (20,000+) general-purpose standard ontology of
common concepts" could be assembled from the building blocks using
structural summation and structural quotienting.
Robert E. Kent
rekent@ontologos.org