Re: [xtm-wg] A Proposal (was Re: Knowledge management claims re XTM)

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Patrick Stickler wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> On 24 Aug, EXT Hans Holger Rath wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > My 5 cent (of a Euro :^) about this topic:
> > 
> > Bryan Thompson wrote:
> >> Yes, I agree.  However I feel we could address much of this
> >> continually re-emergent confusion if the XTM AG made specific
> >> recommendations concerning *how* the XTM (or the ISO standard)
> could
> >> be used, without modification to the specification, to encode
> >> knowledge modeling languages.
> > 
> > I already proposed such an approach a year ago at GCA's
> Metastructures 99,
> > Montreal. The ISO WG call them TM templates. A template (or
> application profile
> > or schema) contains all ontology declarations, transitivity
> information,
> > type hierarchy information, explicit inference rules, and validation
> > constraints.
> > 
> > Last week I presented the final results at GCA's Extreme Markup
> > Languages 2000, Montreal. The concept is based on PSIs (Public 
> > Subject Identifiers) which have to be publicly registered by ISO or 
> > OASIS or whoever. This registration is everything what is needed,
> > no standard has to be changed, but TM tools can refer to the PSIs
> and
> > support their semantic which is clearly defined together with the
> > registration. This method allows definiton of various
> > application dependent profiles (e.g. knowledge representation,
> > subject classification, and other use cases). 
> > 
> > My paper is in the Extreme ML proceedings and the appropriate
> > XTM WG should have access to it. If requested I can upload a 
> > PDF to the egroups server.
> > 
> > Having such technique at hand knowledge representation can be done
> > using TMs. Reading Sowa's book will convince you (he is talking
> about
> > conceptual graphs which could be expressed as TMs without any
> problems).
> > 
> > Regards,
> > --Holger

> (A lurker emerges ;-)

(Another lurker emerges...)

Just popped up to mention another interesting piece by John Sowa,
recently circulated to the RDF Interest Group:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0000.html
	[excerpted:]
	   http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/peirce/ontometa.htm

	"Ontology, Metadata, and Semiotics", and it addresses
	 issues of representing logic, ontology, and metalanguage about them
	 in various notations, including RDF and controlled natural languages.
	John Sowa
	

cheers,

Dan




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