Re: SUO: SUO -- Technical Methodology
On the desirability of voting:
Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> First of all it is not necessary to vote,
> since a well designed Index should be able
> to keep track of all the orthodoxies and
> all the heresies in one easy-to-reverence
> and easy-to-purge form.
>
When irreconcilable differences are expressed
on an issue that needs to be decided in creating
the merged ontology, I do not believe that we
can determine what is orthodoxy and what is heresy
without a vote. In particular, it will be
useful to determine which minority preferences
are held by more than one participant. The number
of participants voicing opinions in the discussion
is not necessarily a good indicator of how
widespread a preference is.
I would also recommend that an "index" of some
form keep track of the variants. That is what I
presume the IFF and the registry-like structure
are for. Until those are available, some other
temporary simpler list of variants can be maintained.
Pat
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