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Re: ANN: White Paper - "Using OWL to Avoid SyntacticRigor Mor

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• Subject: Re: ANN: White Paper - "Using OWL to Avoid SyntacticRigor Mortis"
• From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:03:36 -0400
• Cc: "Costello,Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Organization: The MITRE Corporation
• References: <r01050400-1025-96441CAE710411D794E90003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

"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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