[Sigia-l] Re:Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools

[mahons1 at eircom.net]

08/11/2002 17:01:03, sigia-l-request at asis.org wrote:

>   1. Article: Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools (Melissa Riesland)
>
>
>Explanation of what ontologies are and how to
>build them, their relation to XML, and a survey
>of available tools. 
>
>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/06/ontologies.html

I thought it was a little naive to say the least. The five part process that is 
suggested for creating an ontology hides at least a personyear of effort under 
each of the five!!

Apropos, the discussion recently here on scaling up (from an ontology on wine...) 
is hightly relevant ot the material in this XML item. 

I think, as an Information Proferssional, we need to explain/illustrate  ot non 
InfoPros that taxonomy/ontology/wordlist/thesaurus building and the like is not 
trivial.

Barry Mahon