Responding to Roy: (01)
>Excellent! I've reviewed the material Gary cites, and agree that an
>"ontology library" capability would be very useful in the COSMO,
>ONTAC, SICOP, and Web-Service collaborations. I also submit that a
>"natural" outline of ontologies (i.e., packages of functions,
>processes, and process input/control/output/mechanism resources such
>as metadata, data, funds, skills) as services could be organized
>using the General Ontology (GO) as outlined below:
>
>1. Location Ontologies/Services (i.e., location-specific for:
>physical/geospatial/geodetic and postal locations; virtual locations
>such as URI, URL, Phone/Fax Numbers, IP Addresses, and UNC; and
>conceptual locations such as "region", "area", "placename".) (02)
A place name is not a location.
A "placename" is also not a location.
If we are to have a natural ontology -- an ontology people will feel
comfortable with using and trust to be rigorous, we have to be very
careful with distinctions such as this. (03)
>2. Organization Ontologies/Services (i.e., organization-specific for
>government, commercial, and private organization entities) (04)
And we should avoid use of '/', unless it is very clearly defined
what it means. (05)
>3. Organization Unit Ontologies/Services (i.e.,
>organization-unit-specific for staff offices, program offices,
>project offices, teams, positions, roles) (06)
There is a problem if we have as a top-level organizing principle for
a general ontology a very specific distinction between organizations
on the one hand and organization units on the other. (07)
>4. Function Ontologies/Services (i.e., function-specific "what is
>done" models for executive, production, and support functions, into
>which most published ontologies and business-component services
>would be categorized) (08)
And there is the same problem here: the distinctions between
executive functions, production functions, etc. do not belong in the
top level of a general ontology. (09)
>4.3 Support Function Ontologies
>4.3.1 Human Capital Management Ontologies (010)
Reminds me, again, of HL7: (011)
Animal =def animal-of-interest to the Personnel Management Domain (012)
BS (013)
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