SUO: RE: Comment #7 - Reference Object''
Dear Colleagues,
I agree with the issue below. A single document as a standard is unlikely. I
think I have said before that in ISO TC184/SC4 we have developed standards
in this area that are single standards, but a series of parts for e.g.
languages, implementation methods, models (ontologies), reference data,
methods.
I will be surprised if we do not need most or all of these (or references to
existing ones).
Regards
Matthew
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schoening, James R CECOM DCSC4I
> [mailto:James.Schoening@mail1.monmouth.army.mil]
> Sent: 30 August 2000 04:33
> To: 'Standard-Upper-Ontology (E-mail) '
> Subject: SUO: Comment #7 - Reference Object''
>
>
>
> SUO,
> Let's now discuss the comment from Lee Austpitz
> lee@textwise.com on
> 'Reference Object'.
>
> Lee comments:
> >The vision of a single document, with or without an annex, raises the
> question of what exactly is being "standardized".
> >The distinction, crucial to this area, between a reference
> object and the
> standards that it exemplifies is absent
> >from the Statements of Scope and Purpose.
>
> Comments on this comment?
>
> Jim Schoening
>
>
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>
> The original Scope and Purpose is as follows:
>
> Scope of Proposed Project:
> (The Scope describes what is being done, including the
> technical boundaries
> of the project.)
> This standard will specify the syntax and semantics of a
> general-purpose
> upper level ontology. An ontology is a set of terms and
> formal definitions.
> This will be limited to the upper level, which provides definition for
> general-purpose terms and provides a structure for compliant
> lower level
> domain ontologies. It is estimated to contain between 1000
> and 2500 terms
> plus roughly ten definitional statements for each term. It is
> intended to
> provide the foundation for ontologies of much larger size and
> more specific
> scope.
>
> Purpose of Proposed Project:
> (The Purpose describes why the standard needs to be developed
> and who will
> benefit.)
> * The standard will be suitable for automated logical inference to
> support knowledge-based reasoning applications.
> * This standard will enable the development of a large (20,000+)
> general-purpose standard ontology of common concepts to be
> developed, which
> will provide the basis for middle-level domain ontologies and
> lower-level
> application ontologies.
> * The ontology will be suitable for "compilation" to more
> restricted
> forms such as XML or database schema. This will enable
> database developers
> to define new data elements in terms of a common ontology,
> and thereby gain
> some degree of interoperability with other compliant systems.
> * Owners of existing systems will be able to map existing data
> elements just once to a common ontology, and thereby gain a degree of
> interoperability with other representations that are
> compliant with the SUO.
>
> * Domain-specific ontologies which are compliant with the
> SUO will be
> able to interoperate (to some degree) by virtue of the shared
> common terms
> and definitions.
> * Applications of the ontology will include:
> * E-commerce applications from different domains
> which need to
> interoperate at both the data and semantic levels.
> * Educational applications in which students learn
> concepts and
> relationships directly from, or expressed in terms of, a
> common ontology.
> This will also enable a standard record of learning to be kept.
> * Natural language understanding tasks in which a
> knowledge based
> reasoning system uses the ontology to disambiguate among likely
> interpretations of natural language statements.
>
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