[Sigia-l] Question about the use of the term 'ontology'

[ruth at ruthkaufman.com]

Quoting Peter Van Dijck <peter at poorbuthappy.com>:

> Ontology is a pretty good term if you're gonna be using topicmaps. I'd
> focus more on people in your company understanding and accepting the
> term than on anyone in the general public :)

Yes, that's what I meant -- acceptance within the company. We have a good
handful of library scientists within IBM :-), but our various subject-based
classification schemes (also plentiful) are not yet interoperable in a 
way that
meets the needs of ibm.com web site and its users.

Ruth