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Re: Data vs. Process was Re: Vocabulary Combination


content versus process
Bill de hÓra wrote:


> Jonathan Borden wrote:
>
> > The problem with this analysis is that the world isn't _only_ about
> > processes and processing -- there exists a declarative approach which
has a
> > fundamental fit with XML -- which fundamentally is, or describes, a data
> > format (not a process description).
> >
> > The ontologic approach is such a declarative approach -- for example,
> > nowhere in the OWL specifications is *any* writing about a "processing
> > model". You may consider such ontologic descriptions as specious
> > abstractions, but the whole point of this excercize is that much can be
done
> > *without specifying any processing*.
>
> Strong agreement. But let's remember that you cannot have a theory
> of content without a process model - something some luminaries
> involved now in the semantic web/ont efforts realized a long time ago.

Please elaborate on "theory of content" and its corresponding "process
model" -- I'm not sure what this means.

Jonathan


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