RE: remembering business data and taxonomy in description

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Booth [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:56 PM
> To: Heather Kreger; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: remembering business data and taxonomy in description
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> Heather,
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> What you have described is formally called an "ontology": 
> http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0813-semweb-dbooth/slide37-0.html

Uhh, Heather used the perfectly respectable and widely-understood term
"taxonomy."  I'd suggest that the VERY LAST THING we need right now is
another terminology dispute :-)

OTOH, if someone were to demonstrate how an OWL formalization of anything
that we are scratching our heads over would help clarify matters, I would be
most appreciative. 

p.s.  Hours after the telcon last week, I understood why David was stressing
the "two kinds of nouns and one verb" discipline.  RDF predicates consist of
a subject-predicate-object triple ... two nouns and a verb :-) 
If there are any intellectual tools we can use to make sense out of the
Choreography Chaos, I'm all for them.