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Tue, Aug 05, 2003

OHS Launch Community: Experimenting with Ontologies    #

My review of The Semantic Web resulted in some very interesting comments. In particular, DannyAyers challenged my point about focusing on human-understandable ontologies rather than machine-understandable ones:    (5D)

But..."I think it would be significantly cheaper and more valuable to develop better ways of expressing human-understandable ontologies". I agree with your underlying point here, but think it's just the kind of the Semantic Web technologies can help with. The model used is basically very human-friendly - just saying stuff about things, using (triple) statements.    (5E)

Two years ago, I set out to test this very claim by creating an ad-hoc community -- the OHS Launch Community -- and by making the creation of a shared ontology one of our primary goals. I'll describe that experience here, and will address the comments in more detail later. (For now, see JayFienberg?'s blog entry, "Semantic web 2003: not unlike TRS-80 in the 1970's." Jay makes a point that I want to echo in a later post.)    (5F)

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