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Re: SUO: Ballot with 2 Questions




Chew-Hung Lee a écrit :
> 
> I don't think that the world doesn't need an ontology,
> it's just that we haven't seen a successful application
> of ontologies (ie. we can't say that an important application
> could not function without an ontology at its core).
> 
> Unfortunately, at least for me, sponsors are unwilling to
> fund an ontological project unless I could show some
> successful application of ontologies.
>
> Chew-Hung Lee

This is the famous chicken and egg problem!
Furthermore, the current economic "weather" is not very supportive of high-tech ventures, 
even more so when they have a speculative and "philosophical" flavor.
That's why only well entrenched academics could do anything about ontologies.
Unfortunately "entrenched academics" are not that much creative...

Best.
 
-- Jean-Luc Delatre
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