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3 More C's Of Ontology Engineering In The Enterprise
Decouple your internal ontology from what you publish
The fact that your internal architecture has been built upon a rich cohesive ontology that fits your requirements, and provides for robust and easy to maintain enterprise software need not determine (or compromise!) what you want to publish to any given consumer. Marking up…
Description Logic - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The open world assumption
[referring to Description Logic] Not having CWA, or rather having the Open World Assumption (OWA) means that lack of knowledge of a fact does not immediately imply knowledge of the negation of a fact.
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
In Bacon classes of signs mean modes of signifying rather that sign vehicles
It has to be noticed that in Bacon's, as well as in any other medieval sign-typology, the classes of signs — even though this is not explicitly stated by the authors themselves — distinguish modes of signifying rather than signs in the sense of sign-vehicles. Therefore, one and…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Cosmic Idiot replaces God
Those who continued to believe in Someone-Up-There-Who-Cares were ridiculed as woolly-minded wishful thinkers, poor weaklings unable to face man’s grim predicament in a heartless universe where survival is the sole privilege of the tough guys. If the all-too-intelligent God was…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a curriculum
So, if the digital humanities is, neither in fact nor in principle, a discipline, then what is it? Surely, with its growing army of followers and plethora of concrete institutional manifestations, it must have some basis in a reality other than its own…
Xml And Semantic Transparency
Xml doesn't allow blind interoperability
[..] we must reckon with the cold fact that XML does not of itself enable blind interchange or information reuse. XML may help humans predict what information might lie "between the tags" in the case of , but XML can only help. For an XML processor, and and are all equally (and…