Re: SUO: Applications & ontology [was: Negotiation Instead of Legislation]
Bill,
Given the amount of trash that gets posted to this list, a repetition of
a good story that "some"
of the readers may have heard would hardly be unappreciated.
> All I can say is that the quality of the resulting ontologies is higher than
> that obtained by introspective hacking, especially when the models become
> large and manual checking of constraints becomes impossible. Actually, to
> back this up, I have an existence proof of an episode where, if I had
> applied the above axioms to a RDB schema design, I could have saved the US
> taxpayers about $500,000 on a project I once worked on. Since some of you
> have heard that story before and it's kind of detailed, I won't repeat it
> here online, but will do so on request from anyone interested.
In any case, the number in that "some" is undoubtedly much less than
the total subscribership (and the lurkers who read the archives).
So I suggest you post the story to the SUO list.
John