[seek-kr-sms] ontology management

Joseph Goguen goguen at cs.ucsd.edu
Tue Nov 8 11:08:52 PST 2005


I got some more comments, and so added more details and 
explanation to the webnote at

    http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~goguen/papers/onto-intgn.html

Further comments are of course still very welcome,

    joseph



Serguei Krivov wrote:

>In our discussions on "owlification" of Taxon I also have been advocating
>this kind of architecture:
>1. One very general ontology acceptable to everybody -call it top or kernel.
>
>2. Large number of small additions made by different people (authorities) --
>these are extensions
>Interestingly, the axioms of equivalence for concepts and individuals and
>other owl constructs would allow to establish local synonyms within an
>extension and do similar things as extension maps: " these maps do not need
>to be inclusions: they might change names, or define new concepts in terms
>of core concepts, possibly even by explicitly denying the validity of
>certain concepts in C...."
>
>Yet, conceptualizing those local ontologies (extensions) as   maps  seems
>new to me and I wonder about possible ramifications of this point of view.
>
>serguei
>


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