SUO: Re: Web-based ontology browsers
Phil,
I certainly appreciate the effort you have put into organizing the Coda. I
am currently writing IFF using MS-Word (mea culpa -- I am actually a LaTeX
devotee) and then translating it to PDF using Adobe Acrobat. I am willing to
use any word processing software, but would like to write it just *once*,
and then have some extracting software put it into a Coda format and a
browsable format. Is this possible?
Robert E. Kent
rekent@ontologos.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Jackson" <phil.jackson@computer.org>
To: "Robert E. Kent" <rekent@ontologos.org>; "Seth Russell"
<seth@robustai.net>; "Adam Pease" <apease@ks.teknowledge.com>
Cc: "SUO" <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 5:12 AM
Subject: 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
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