SUO: Re: Re: IFF example?
Dear Matthew,
OK. We look forward to your sample EPISTLE material.
Robert E. Kent
rekent@ontologos.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE" <matthew.west@shell.com>
To: "Robert E. Kent" <rekent@ontologos.org>; "Patrick Cassidy"
<pcassidy@bellatlantic.net>
Cc: "SUO" <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>; "John F. Sowa"
<sowa@bestweb.net>; "Leo Obrst" <lobrst@mitre.org>; "Jim Farrugia"
<jim@spatial.maine.edu>; "Marco Schorlemmer" <marco@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:43 AM
Subject: RE: Re: IFF example?
Dear Robert,
Count me in as prepared to put some sample EPISTLE material in the
pot and support the analysis to map to some other ontology.
Matthew West
Principal Consultant
Shell Information Technology International Limited
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Kent [mailto:rekent@ontologos.org]
> Sent: 06 May 2003 17:50
> To: Patrick Cassidy
> Cc: SUO; John F. Sowa; Leo Obrst; Jim Farrugia; Marco Schorlemmer
> Subject: SUO: Re: IFF example?
>
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>
> Patrick and others,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Cassidy" <pcassidy@bellatlantic.net>
> Cc: <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 8:41 AM
> Subject: SUO: IFF example?
>
> [snip]
>
> > The
> > task of organizing logically inconsistent ontologies --
> > or John's lattice of theories -- is also important, but
> > I would like to first focus on the task of finding
> > translations ("mappings"?) between logically consistent
> > ontologies (or portions of them).
> > Is it possible for someone working with IFF to
> > prepare a very simple ("as simple as possible, but
> > no simpler") example of how IFF could be used to
> > translate between a small fragment of two ontologies,
> > say between OpenCyc and SUMO? If an IFF-er is
> > willing to try, I would be happy to make suggestions
> > as to what areas to try to translate.
>
> Marco Schorlemmer www.dai.ed.ac.uk/~marco and I would be
> happy to work with
> you and other interested people on the issue of how the IFF
> can serve as a
> framework for relating the modules of SUMO, OpenCyc and other
> object-level
> ontologies, and for organizing their modules and microtheories into a
> lattice of theories. Neither of us are experts on either SUMO
> or OpenCyc,
> but we are certainly interested in the issue of ontology
> mapping. We are
> particularly interested in using the application of
> Information Flow-based
> ontology mapping methodology to convince the SUO WG of the potentially
> practical value of the approach taken in the IFF.
>
> Robert E. Kent
> rekent@ontologos.org
>
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