SUO: Starter KB V2 Question #8
Adam Pease suggested:
> One style comment I might make is that I'd prefer an InterCaps style
> for names but that's purely personal preference.
> We should get the consensus of the group.
>
John A. Thompson stated:
By the way, I prefer hyphens between the words of our terms, instead of
these internal capitals that Cyc uses, so that spell checkers can deal with
them, and word wrapping would go more smoothly.
John Sowa said
> It is important to adopt some standard convention and enforce
> it consistently.
Mike Uschold suggested:
>1. Use capital letters to highlight terms proposed as technical terms being
> for the SUO.
>
>4. Err on the side of using long descriptive names
I've sent this message to the group to allow for a thread of discussion.
I'm willing to modify my document to any naming convention we
agree to.
Since we have the NAME-OF relation, we could just use non descriptive names
like RELATION-015 and have the NAME-OF relation provide both an InterCaps
style and a hyphen style name for the terms. Or we could have an "approved"
name in each style.
My preference is that whatever names we use DO NOT have text name as any
other readily available ontology. I suspect that if we use the same names
as is used elsewhere that there will be an assumption that the semantics
is the same. Unless we have a complete logical definition in our system
that matches that of the other ontology, we are asking for confusion.
David (whitten@lynx.eaze.net) (713) 791-1414 ext 6116