SUO: Commonwealth of Ontologies
All,
"She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little social
commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere
long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted
into. With the prospect of spending at least two months at ------, it was
highly incumbent on her to clothe her imagination, her memory, and all her
ideas in as much of ------ as possible."
Persuasion, Chapter 6, (1818). Jane Austen
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From the point of view that "every little social commonwealth should dictate
its own matters of discourse," would it not seem that the SUO should be
structured as a loose confederation of participating ontologies, or perhaps
better a league or commonwealth of ontologies? [See
http://ltsc.ieee.org/logs/suo/msg00405.html]
I believe others have expressed some possibly similar skeptical sentiments
along these same lines:
Pat Hayes [http://ltsc.ieee.org/logs/suo/msg02473.html]
Roberto Bordogna [http://ltsc.ieee.org/logs/suo/msg02619.html]
Soon I hope to discuss how an ontological framework suitable for a
commonwealth of ontologies might be structured using ideas from Barwise's
Information Flow and Wille's Formal Concept Analysis.
Robert E. Kent
rekent@ontologos.org