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Len Bullart wrote:: > > To provide some thoughtMunchies for the first of the > two questions I posed, here is an extract from > > "Conceptual Modeling for Distributed Ontology Environments" > http://www.ontology.org/main/papers/iccs-dlm.html > > by Deborah L. McGuinness, Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist, > Stanford University, Knowledge Systems Laboratory Great list Len. Here are some I would suggest modification to: > Specify mappings between multiple standard controlled vocabularies if > multiple > vocabularies are standard in the domain(s) of interest. Specify mappings between multiple standard controlled vocabularies wherever their domains of interest overlap. (This helps vocabularies to grow) > Specify semantics of terms. Provide multilingual mappings for terms and definitions > Specify domains and ranges of roles (for example, the domain of > "leader-of-country" > is "person" and the range is "country"). Specify region and timeframe over which domains and roles apply. (What dates will George Bush be leader-of-country? Which country? How does this differ from being leader of Texas?) > Specify active inferences to infer constraints between role values (for > example, > "shipping-weight" is greater or equal to the "actual-weight"). Domain dependent mappings are required to understand the relationship between equivalences (US lbs and metric kg being a case in point, not to bring up the subject of the speed of Mars landers!) Martin Bryan Chair, CEN/ISSS EC Workshop working group on Defining and Managing Semantics and Datatypes (Just to let you know where these thoughts are coming from!)
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