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December 6, 2005

 

 The BCNGroup Beadgames

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[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