[Sigia-l] Diagramming logical semantic statements

[Conal Tuohy]

Tori, have you considered the Unified Modelling Language (UML)? There's a lot of tools for software modelling that support UML, and of course you can use any old drawing package if you want.
On the topic map list recently there was a related thread. Someone pointed out this page about diagramming Topic Maps, which may suit you.
http://www.techquila.com/tmsinia_4.html
Cheers
Con
-----Original Message-----
From:	Tori Orr [mailto:tw at orr.net]
Sent:	Sun 9/05/2004 9:41 a.m.
To:	sigia-l at asis.org
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Subject:	[Sigia-l] Diagramming logical semantic statements
There was an IEEE Intelligent Systems article that provided, as an example,
a coded ontology for HP products written back in 2000 and titled "FAQs on
OIL: The Ontology Inference Layer." (It discusses the relationship between
ontologies and XML/RDFs -- in the context of the Semantic Web,
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/Publications/publications.html)
 
Anyway, I'm trying to *visually* diagram some similar logical statements in
some form of flow chart with relationships indicated with arrows as a simple
example of an ontology as one might define it for computer use, but I keep
getting my fishing lines tangled between terms and my display is really not
any less confusing than the original list.
I'm ready to abandon the whole plan...unless...someone here has already
achieved what I'm finding so difficult. I'd be really interested if anyone
here had already developed a clear example of such a thing they'd be willing
to share with me rather than recreating yet another ontological wheel. I
feel like someone MUST have done something like this already at some point?
(thanks in advance!)