SUO: Re: Missing Ingredients
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MI. Note 4
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TJ = Tom Johnston
TJ: Murray's seems to be: tie-in to
implementation technologies like
Java and XML.
TJ: My own is: start working bottom-up, and start talking
in terms intelligible to serious database professionals.
TJ: Several of my earlier emails to this
forum expand on these suggestions.
To summarize them:
TJ: 1. Start working bottom-up.
TJ: 1.1. Our goal, I take it, is to increase the semantic interoperability
of databases. This means, I take it, (although I have found no
description of any such thing on the SUO website) is to create
a registration framework for real world databases.
Tom,
There's about 20 years worth of research on "deductive databases"
that I can remember just since the first standard textbooks began
to appear. But you said bottoms-up, and I'm all for that, well,
let me check -- yes, it's an odd-numbered day where I am, so OK.
Let us try to approach the question
of "semantic inter-operability" (SIO)
by way of the following sub-questions:
1. What is the "meaning" of a "set of sentences" (SOS)?
2. What is the "meaning" of a "table of tuples" (TOT)?
3. How shall we compare the "meanings" of these two?
I will give you and me both time to think and then get back to you.
Jon Awbrey
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