SUO: RE: Re: IFF example?
Dear Robert,
Will an EXPRESS data model do?
Matthew West
Principal Consultant
Shell Information Technology International Limited
Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 20 7934 4490 Other Tel: +44 7796 336538
Email: matthew.west@shell.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert E. Kent [mailto:rekent@ontologos.org]
> Sent: 09 May 2003 22:56
> To: West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE
> Cc: Marco Schorlemmer; SUO
> Subject: 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
> Shell Centre, London SE1 7NA, United Kingdom
>
> Tel: +44 20 7934 4490 Other Tel: +44 7796 336538
> Email: matthew.west@shell.com
> Internet: http://www.shell.com
>
>
> > -----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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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