Thank you for your very gracious comments. I am very impressed with the Ontolog Tax-Thesaurus project and look forward to helping in whatever way I can.

As for my next blog topics, I plan to continue with some on ontology, but then very much focused on the importance of structure and structure extraction. It is in this regard that the Ontolog efforts are of such interest.

Let’s do chat offline!

@Liam,

This is not an academic publication, just my attempts as a past academic to masquerade as such. These ontology pieces are related to an initiative called UMBEL that will be publicly released in the next week or two. Per my earlier comments, I recommend you look into the Ontolog community-of-practice (COP). That is where the real ontology experts hang out. I was merely acting as a sort of journalist on the topic.

Thanks, Mike

Thanks for the insightful discussions of the Ontology Summit and the broader context. Denise Bedford, Peter Yim, Ken Baclawski and others who attended the Summit are involved with an Ontolog Project we call the Taxo-Thesaurus Project. We are meeting this morning at the website identified above to take some practical next steps. Your “Intrepid Guide” was on my Agenda as “must reading”.

On my own separate agenda as a member of a large city’s Environmental Board concerned with energy, water, food, and security infrastructures, I plan on inserting your Intrepid Guide webpage into several other local decision points involving large infrastructure planning (AES, Poseidon, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, etc.), but it would be especially useful to make pragmatic linkages between Architectural, Engineering and Construction domains and regulatory domains.

Given your long history of involvement with US Infrastructure and its evolution to today’s disastrous state (for example Steve Flynn’s recent “Edge of Disaster” and Joe Brewer’s re-alignment of Security Semantics from military actions to infrastructure/climate change at http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/shifting-the-climate-of-security )

Will you be addressing these messy issues in a future blog????

If so, please let me know (or perhaps we can chat).

Cheers,

Bob
Tall Tree Labs
Co-Chair, Ontolog Forum Taxo-Thesaurus Project