[Sigia-l] Ontologies

[Victor Lombardi]

At 1/22/2003 -0500 09:57 AM, Peter Cook wrote:
>Would anyone like to comment on the relevance of 'ontologies' to IA?

I wrote an article not long ago illustrating how I've been using them:
http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2002-08.shtml

One of my colleagues is also presenting his work with ontologies at the IA 
Summit:
http://www.asist-events.org/IASummit2003/cs27.shtml

>RE>I do have a quibble about using a hallowed term from metaphysics/philosophy
>to describe something else.

There's an oft referenced paper - the title escapes me at the moment - that 
has established Ontology (capital O) as the philosophical variety and 
ontology (lower case O) as the knowledge representation variety.



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