Expectations for Ontologies
- many ontologies
- one size doesn't fit all
- different communities of interest will adopt their own
preferred ontologies
- motivates translation mechanisms between ontologies
- reusable ontologies
- few ontologies will be self-contained
- most ontologies will reference other ontologies
- small ontologies
- it's easier to gain consensus on smaller focused set of
terms
- but large, encompassing
"upper ontologies"
such as
OpenCyc
and
SUO
will still be useful,
particularly for translation
