SUO: STEP as an Ontology -- RE: RE: RE: Re: Re: A,A,E,I,M,M,M,P,P,S.......

["Philip Jackson" <phil.jackson@computer.org>]

Dear Matthew,

You wrote:
>
> My origins are in engineering (Chemical Engineering to be precise) and the
> community I "represent" here is ISO TC184/SC4 Industrial Data, where I am
> Deputy Convenor of WG10 - Technical Architecture.
>
> The focus of TC184/SC4 is technical data exchange and
> integration. This can
> be from property data to CAD data to product catalogues.
>
> There is quite a lot that has gone on in the area (I think) you
> are talking
> about. ISO 10303-50 (mathematical representation) and ISO10303-45
> (material
> properties) come to mind.

Thanks very much for your letter and these references. Coincidentally, a few
years back I participated in STEP, working on representation of sheet metal
product information.

My recollection (now a bit hazy) is that STEP does link together
representations of different domains, and use constructs in one domain to
help represent another. Perhaps this is the same kind of thing I was
describing relative to metaphoric application of scientific concepts from
one domain to another, but I'm not sure.... If you could give some examples
along these lines, it would be very interesting...

Best Regards,

Phil Jackson
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philip Jackson [mailto:phil.jackson@computer.org]
> > Sent: 31 October 2000 11:41
> > To: Jack Park; Jon Awbrey
> > Cc: Stand Up Ontology
> > Subject: SUO: RE: Re: Re: Abstraction, Analogy, Example,
> > Icon, Metaphor,
> > Model, Morphism, Paradigm, Prototype, Simulation
> >
> >
> >
> > Jack and Jon,
> >
> > I'm especially interested in ontology and epistemology of
> > physics, and think
> > these topics could be relevant to SUO....What I find very
> > interesting is how
> > we are able to extend our concept base for scientific
> > knowledge, e.g. via
> > metaphoric application of concepts from one domain to
> > another.... Which
> > relates to linguistics, semiotics, etc... So I'd like to
> > participate, or at
> > least lurk, in a discussion of such topics....
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Phil Jackson
> >
> > >
> > > Jon,
> > > I would be very interested to persue a discussion of
> > qualitative physics.
> > > Would that need to be conducted on a different venue?
> > > Jack Park
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
> > > <snippage>
> > > OK, this part I think I get, as I did spend some time studying
> > > the "Qualitative Physics" of Ken Forbus, Ben Kuipers, and others.
> > > But that was a long time ago, and my present approach to these
> > > issues has evolved quite a bit since then.  Let me know if you
> > > want to talk about that.
> > >
> >
> >