Re: SUO: Re: SUO Ballot with 2 Questions
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> Mike,
>
> Good question:
>
> > Eric, suppose that someone told you that they had an ontology
> > that Yahoo had just purchased or developed and a different
> > ontology (of course) that a number of computer scientists,
> > linguists, and philosophers had developed. They insisted that
> > you pick one, sight unseen, and implement it as a standard
> > ontology. Which would you pick?
>
> It depends on the purpose.
>
> If I wanted to publish a paper in a research journal,
> I'd pick the one by the academics.
>
> If I wanted to make a profit in business, I'd pick
> the one that the Yahoo programmers had chosen.
>
> John
If I wanted to make profit in business, I would build a registry for them both
without looking at them. Then I would hire a marketing dandy. I could spend the
rest of my life sitting on my glory and counting my stock options.
If was building an application and needed an ontology, I'd look at them both
first or I'd hire an academics nerd and a software enginer geek to tell me
which, if any, fits best my own system and needs, how I can improve my sytem
and if I need to modify anything from them (I could even use IFF to create
modules).
In any event, I wouldn't build a registry for them both first thing in the
morning!
Pierre