SUO: Re: W3C ontology requirements
The field of requirements engineering has contributed excellent GUIs that allow efficient traversals tracing documents back to their root requirements. The Teknowledge browser could support such links, but
unfortunately, SUMO did not follow a logical process of development.
It is kept current merely by adding the 'flavor of the month' concerns on top, whatever they may be this month who knows - there's no plan.
There are no experiments or tests to choose which options better support requirements. Once again, it would be nice to have a GUI that supported traceability from the tests to the specs to the requirements, a simple link would do. The content is just not there.
Enough of GUIs! What's needed is the will to interoperate, and that is clearly absent, dead, gone and DOA.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:00:27 -0800
seth@robustai.net wrote
>
From: "murray j bent" <murrayb@imailbox.com>
> about web ontology requirements is at
> http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/owl/
I think there is another lesson that SUO could learn from OWL.
Quoting from the above document:
"Clean interface to other standards including (but not only)
XML-standards. This is a standards-based industry, and
the clear relationship of OWL to RDF/RDFS/DAML etc.
is important. "
I mean SUMO is making absolutely no effort to Webize the ontology constants.
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