Re: SUO: Fw: (SeWeb) EU-NSF Semantic web strategic workshop report
Amen.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
To: <jim.s3@juno.com>
Cc: <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 22:12
Subject: Re: SUO: Fw: (SeWeb) EU-NSF Semantic web strategic workshop report
Jim,
That sounds like a very reasonable recommendation:
> "What we envision, in this respect, is not so much a monolithic
> top-level ontology to be used by all applications (an unrealistic
> and naïve perspective), but rather the possibility of making
> explicit the nature and the content of ontological choices simply
> by committing to specific foundational modules, whose characteristics
> and implications are already well understood (although not necessarily
> agreed upon) by a large community."
As they always say, "Great minds run in the same gutter."
John Sowa