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Back to the Future with Description Logics
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content: Have Linked Data, Microformats Stumbled into an Adaptive Design?; Benefits from Keeping the TBox and ABox Separate I was glad to see Kendall Clark pick up on parts of my earlier piece on Thinking 'Inside the Box' with Description Logics. He took one point of view in his posting -- that I mostly agree with -- but I'd also like to reinforce some other thoughts. And, those thoughts are: description logics (DL) provides earlier lessons and insights that our current zeal for linked data should not overlook, and the lessons we can gain from DL are really fundamental and architectural. For those of you who have not read Kendall's piece -- which I heartily recommend -- let me give you my Cliffs Note's summary: there are those within the semantic Web community that want to capture the conceptual relationships within knowledge and domains, the Maximum Fidelity tribe, and then those that want to link and describe as many things as possible, the Maximum Scalability tribe, with those (like Kendall's firm, Clark & Parsia) residing in the middle and following the precepts of DL. The theme is that extremes exist and need to be bridged. [1] Posing these contrasts is an effective way to describe different ideas and approaches, but, like all straw men, perhaps it hides nuances and complexity. And, as I note below, it may also pose the wrong straw man dichotomy. We Are All Tribes of One Jim Hendler, for one, took exception to Kendall's characterization to make the obvious point that different use cases demand different approaches. What was interesting, however, in these interchanges was that a nerve was seemingly struck about differences in viewpoints and approaches. Indeed, the very reference to "tribes" seemed to bring out the (ahem) tribal response. So, just so we are clear, in what I say below I take on the position of a tribe of one; that is, my own opinion. Of course, this is what all of us do. By positing tribes and viewpoints we simplify what is nuanced and subtly convey that o…
encoded: Have Linked Data, Microformats Stumbled into an Adaptive Design?; Benefits from Keeping the TBox and ABox Separate I was glad to see Kendall Clark pick up on parts of my earlier piece on Thinking ‘Inside the Box’ with Description Logics. He took one point of view in his posting — that I mostly agree with — but I’d also like to reinforce some other thoughts. And, those thoughts are: description logics (DL) provides earlier lessons and insights that our current zeal for linked data should not overlook, and the lessons we can gain from DL are really fundamental and architectural. For those of you who have not read Kendall’s piece — which I heartily recommend — let me give you my Cliffs Note’s summary: there are those within the semantic Web community that want to capture the conceptual relationships within knowledge and domains, the Maximum Fidelity tribe, and then those that want to link and describe as many things as possible, the Maximum Scalability tribe, with those (like Kendall’s firm, Clark & Parsia) residing in the middle and following the precepts of DL. The theme is that extremes exist and need to be bridged. [1] Posing these contrasts is an effective way to describe different ideas and approaches, but, like all straw men, perhaps it hides nuances and complexity. And, as I note below, it may also pose the wrong straw man dichotomy. We Are All Tribes of One Jim Hendler, for one, took exception to Kendall’s characterization to make the obvious point that different use cases demand different approaches. What was interesting, however, in these interchanges was that a nerve was seemingly struck about differences in viewpoints and approaches. Indeed, the very reference to “tribes” seemed to bring out the (ahem) tribal response. So, just so we are clear, in what I say below I take on the position of a tribe of one; that is, my own opinion. Of course, this is what all of us do. By positing tribes and viewpoints we simplify what is nuanced and subtly convey that opini…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Description Logics
topic: Linked Data
topic: Semantic Web
topic: Structured Web
topic: UMBEL
links to: Thinking 'Inside the Box' with Description Logics
links to: his posting
links to: description logics
links to: linked data
links to: Cliffs Note's
links to: semantic Web
links to: Clark & Parsia
links to: [1]
links to: straw men
links to: took exception
links to: [2]
links to: [3]
links to: DBpedia
links to: linked open data
links to: microformats
links to: TBox
links to: ABox
links to: First-order logic
links to: set theory
links to: Description logics (DL)
links to: Axiom
links to: Intensional
links to: Extensional
links to: Ontology
links to: Vocabulary
links to: Knowledge base
links to: [5]
links to: [6]
links to: [7]
links to: [8]
links to: [9]
links to: FOAF
links to: SIOC
links to: UMBEL
links to: OWL
links to: RDFS
links to: RDFizers
links to: GRDDL
links to: 'LOD cloud
links to: infoboxes
links to: [10]
links to: VoCamps
links to: voiD
links to: Cyc
links to: [11]
links to: [12]
links to: [13]
links to: 14
links to: 15
links to: [16]
links to: ISWC '08
links to: Peter F. Patel-Schneider
links to: Stefan Decker
links to: Michel Dumontier
links to: Tim Finin
links to: Ian Horrocks
links to: iswc08 panel schneider owl
links to: course
links to: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm
links to: ontolingua-kaj-1993.pdf
links to: med-iswc08.pdf
links to: Kershenbaum2006qo.pdf
links to: W03-1022.pdf
links to: guo06c.pdf

Mike Bergman
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Mike Bergman
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his posting
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[1]
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15
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