Saturday, November 19, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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ISO 15926 is in fact a general-purpose graphically mapped
set of concepts. This can be seen from:
http://www.tc184-sc4.org/wg3ndocs/wg3n1328/lifecycle_integration_schema.html
Many of the qualities needed by
the Basic Formal Ontology (as discussed at:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~akumar/JAIS.pdf
and elsewhere are available in the
ISO 15926 set of concepts.
(by the way: the distinctions discussed
in the JAIS pdf file:
universal and
particular
continuant and
occurrent
dependant and independent
formal and
material
are very similar (*) to what I think of as Sowa's primitives.
Why is his work not referenced in the JAIS pdf file?
*This introduces the notion of general framework theory.)
The problem I see with the BFO (Basic
Formal Ontology’s “SPAN” and “SNAP” sets of concepts) is that there is no
function/structure distinction and thus the observed degeneracy involved in
almost all emergence of aggregated structure (substructure) into wholes having
properties that depend on the environmental "set of affordances" There is no concept of “affordance”, “affinity”,
“path of least resistance” or “intention”, and related concepts (as required by
biological realities such as emergence of function from form).
Or did I miss this?
Linguists call this function/structure degeneracy "double
articulation"
http://www.ontologystream.com/aSLIP/files/stratification.htm
The work at:
http://www.tc184-sc4.org/wg3ndocs/wg3n1328/lifecycle_integration_schema.html
seems very complete and
satisfactory. Why is this not everything one needs to build
loosely held ontology and to support web services? My question here is
"why has this not been enough to end the constant development of poorly
developed (RDF/OWL) Protege ontology?"
What are the limiting constraints
on Protege in particular?
Again, my claim is that a larger
power has to step in to take control of the standardization (for the purpose of
avoiding the obvious) processes (particularly by the W3C). This is why
the White House has to be the power...?