Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Patrick Cassidy
Should we have more than one ontology? It depends on what you want to do with your ontology(s). Multiple logically incompatible ontologies are now built and used by different groups that have no need to communicate with each other. But when they do want to communicate, the incompatibility

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Patrick, Op 8-5-2013 17:19, Patrick Cassidy schreef: Should we have more than one ontology? Back in 2001 when I was doing some artificial intelligence courses, the semantic web was the next big thing. What I remember about ontology is that an ontology of all is next to impossible. Most

Re: [Wikidata-l] Question about wikipedia categories.

2013-05-09 Thread Jane Darnell
I think it is a perfectly good and noble ambition to strive for a logically sound ontology as contrasted with a controlled terminology. I just don't believe it is attainable. Perhaps you could build it by including all existing non-compatible ontologies. I had an interesting conversation about