[Sigia-l] Diagramming logical semantic statements

[Richard Wiggins]

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(specifically: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Cranefield/ )

Glancing at the article, I think it may actually relate to what you're
looking for!

/rich

On Sun, 9 May 2004 15:42:11 +1200, Conal Tuohy <conal.tuohy at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> 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
> Cc:
> 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!)
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