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 Martin Bryan wrote: > Depends on your view of locally. Here in Europe we are trying to create a > Single Market. The problem is that this single market is multilingual and > multi-industry. CEN/ISSS has groups working on ontologies for engineering, > medical supplies, furniture manufacture, shoes, ... There are significant > amounts of overlap in these ontologies, but no knowledge of what each other > has done or is doing. Trying to get them to stop reinventing the wheel is a > real problem. > > Martin (The Opium Eater) Bryan At the risk--nay, the certainty--of sounding intractably (18th century?) American: re-inventing the wheel is the fundamental mechanism of entrepreneurship, free markets and, ultimately, self-definition and self-determination of a polity. The difference between a command economy and an entrepreneurial one can be swiftly ascertained with this simple test: are the producers implementing a pre-agreed common denominator, or have they uniquely internalized a nominal definition of their output, from which their actual product and its definition constantly refine and redefine one another. Whatever one's philosophical sympathies, the difference is inescapable to the honest observer, as is the answer of which is the more aware and solicitous of, and responsive to, the circumstances of its actual consumers. Respectfully, Walter Perry 
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