At 3:21 PM -0700 4/30/08, Duane Nickull wrote:
On 30/04/08 3:10 PM, "Pat Hayes"
<phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 11:35 AM -0700 4/30/08, Duane Nickull wrote:
>
>> Whether or not the thing you are expressing in
>> OWL is in fact an ontology or whether the OWL
>> _expression_ of it still meets the minimum
>> criteria for an ontology is a more complicated
>> question.
>
> What do you see as being the "minimal criteria" for an
ontology, Duane?
>
> <SNIP>
>
Hehehehe I thought that would bait someone ;-)
I doubt there is any one answer for that and it is like beauty in
the eye
of the beholder. I certainly could not answer such a question
and even if I
could, I highly suspect my answer would not work for
others.
Oh well, I thought I'd ask.
Did you have a more concrete
answer?
No. Well, yes: there isn't one (a minimal criterion). So lets
stop talking about it. Its not a complicated question, its a
meaningless question. Anything written in OWL counts as an
ontology. Some ontologies might not be much use, but they are
ontologies. I don't want OWL tools telling me that my OWL isn't
beautiful enough to count as an ontology, so they refuse to process
it.
Pat
Duane
"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't
know"
- Kansas, from the song "Carry on my Wayward
Son"
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