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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote: > > costello@m... (Roger L. Costello) writes: > >Thus, without a-priori agreement my application is able to process a > >trading partner's document! > > Provided you picked the same ontological framework as the sender, > sure. All this does is kick the a priori agreement up a level, usually > to supposed experts. The namespace of the elements indicates the Ontology. As I mentioned earlier, an Ontology can evolve in a distributed fashion. There need not be a centralized committee of experts. Besides, even if there was, I would argue that creating a centralized committee to create a logical design (i.e., an Ontology), and then allowing (encouraging!) diversity of physical expressions ain't a bad way to go! Naturally, you will most likely want to involve domain experts in deciding what are the fundamental terms and their relationships. /Roger
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