RE: Avoiding the pitfalls of ontology development
I agree with this suggestion as a good start.
Regards,
Peter Eirich
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John F. Sowa
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Subject: Re: Avoiding the pitfalls of ontology development
Dear Matthew,
Those two documents contain a lot of useful
information about some successes and failures
and suggestions for how to promote the former
while avoiding the latter.
There are many other documents available
on the web that contain examples, principles,
analyses, and recommendations for how to and
how not to develop and use ontologies. And
of course, there are also the web sites that
contain ontologies, taxonomies, lexicons, and
other resources. Some of them are already on
the SUO web site, but many more are not.
As a first step, I suggest that we compile
an annotated bibliography of such resources.
For each one, there should be a brief comment
that summarizes what it contains and how it
relates to the other documents and resources.
Whether or not the SUO as a whole adopts a
project to boil that down into more concise
technical report, the bibliography itself
should become a valuable resource.
John