December 6, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
à
[bead thread on curriculum
reform]
(new thread on Emergency Medical Ontology Project
planning à [home] )
Communication from a member of the Protégé/OWL e-forum,
Response
à [278]
Paul, I am reading the road map and have
read the comments on your web site referenced in another post.
It is always a difficulty in trying to raise broad subjects on
mailing lists that, as you know, seem to impose their own timbre and tone to
communications.
My understanding is that Protege is the most widely used tool in
the ontology field at the moment. It has a very active list and that along with
the nature of the questions, indicates the degree to which and where it is
being used.
It seems that largely those people are working in medical
informatics, more specifically in drug related and or ailment related research.
My impression could be completely wrong, but that is it.
So I believe there is a very busy core of users (how large??) who
do productive work using protege and, more importantly, ontology related
technologies.
It seems to me that out of this usage there is a spin off that may
find a firm footing in other avenues of computer science and IT.
If the point is that the ontology community as identified by W3C efforts
have the wrong basic assumptions then we need to think about that. Which
assumptions, which field of application, how can it be demonstrated that they
are incorrect and what is the remedy?
Adam