SUO: Web-based ontology browsers
Robert Kent wrote:
> It would be nice to get the IFF Foundation Ontology into a more browsable
> format, whether hosted in the Teknowledge browser or other, and I am
> definitely open to such a development. But right now I am very
> busy working
> on version 2.0 of the IFF Foundation Ontology (concept lattices).
> If anyone
> could help accomplish this (perhaps you Seth), I would very much
> appreciate
> it. I have put a small bit of the IFF ontologies into Philip Jackson's
> Common Ontology Development Architecture (Coda)
> [https://www.quickbase.com/db/6urbwpxk] and SUO Coda Ontology Modules
> [https://www.quickbase.com/db/6ztfq6sg]. Given that rather labor-intensive
> effort which was done by hand, I would strongly recommend some more
> automated method.
It might be possible to automate the addition of information to Coda, though
I do not have the bandwidth to work on this. If anyone else has bandwidth,
I'd be glad to correspond with them about it.
That said, if Coda remains too labor-intensive then it should probably go
into the experimental dustbin, though people working on other ontologies may
wish to judge its ease of use for themselves. Coda can also be used simply
as a way of maintaining definitions of terms like perdurantist and
endurantist -- something that could still be a good idea...
The Coda data structures are oriented toward support of IFF, including
representation of ontology modules. If a different web-enabled framework is
used for IFF and/or any other modular ontology, then perhaps that framework
could benefit from using data structures similar to Coda's...
Phil Jackson