Re: SUO: Re: REQUEST: survey of available ontologies, taxonomies,thesauri, lexicons?

[Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>]

Bill--

Why not interpret "higher in the diagram than" as meaning "guides the
use of" rather than as "less basic than" or "following after"?  It seems
to me you're sewing a vest onto an awfully small button.   

Earlier in this thread, you said

> This community had better stop playing academic one-upmanship and get busy
> producing something...

Is further in-depth analysis of TBL's layer-cake diagram SUO's kick-off
to this program? 

--Frank


Bill Andersen wrote:
> 
> On 4/1/02 13:33, "Frank van Harmelen" <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl> wrote:
> 
> > I would be happy if this clarification removes "your major complaint about
> > much of the work on the semantic web".
> 
> Frank,
> 
> This is a fine diagram, but notice that "Logic" is a little block on top of
> RDF-schema, for example.  This tells me that things like RDF-schema are seen
> as prior to logic by at least Berners-Lee and perhaps others.
> 
> John's point was precisely the opposite.  He would not disagree with you
> about the choice of establishing the lexicon first, which has been done by
> virtue of the fact that Unicode and URIs are at the bottom.  However, I
> think he would vehemently disagree, as do I, that "Logic" is somehow less
> basic that "RDF-schema" or "XML-schema".
> 

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