[iaoa-education] Contributions to IAOA Edu Comm Wiki - report

[Maria Keet]

Hi Rob,

thank you for the input.

a few responses to some of your questions and suggestions:

There is indeed an inconsistency in representation, and we're aware of 
that. Some time earlier in the year, we decided on a format among 
several options (see [1]), but also that, in the interest of time, we 
would first try to fill it with content first and only if time permitted 
before ISAO'18, to fix the formatting of those entries that predated the 
formatting decision. We ran out of time, so harmonising the formatting 
of the earlier entries is still on the to-do list. That said, when one 
adds something now, it would be good to use that formatting style already.

On another note, I don't think that copying-and-pasting definitions from 
a plain dictionary is useful. they're more colloquial and the 
simplification may not be right and there are multiple dictionaries with 
different definitions. e.g., why mirriam webster but not, say, the 
oxford dictionary?

you do raise a point on scope. I think it is Applied Ontology. This also 
means that listing reference models is not the way to go: there are 
several ontology repositories that do a good job at that, and I don't 
think we should replicate that (in casu, I removed CIDOC from the term 
list).

Some terms are informally used interchangeably in the literature (even 
if they may not be so upon closer inspection by one philosopher or 
ontologist), and even considered synonyms (by another philosopher or 
ontologist).  E.g., endurant and continuant (though if you align 
dolce:endurant with bfo:continuant, you'll get an logical 
inconsistency), individual, particular, instance, and entity, and stuff, 
matter, mass, and substance. Most [do/plan to/should] have pointers to 
each other.

[1] the sandbox entry for that is 
http://iaoaedu.cs.uct.ac.za/pmwiki.php?n=IAOAEdu.Continuant and we 
decided on the first layout/formatting variant.

Regards,
Maria

On 16/11/2018 1:51, Rob Rovetto wrote:
> All, attached is another report outlining my subsequent work on the 
> Term List.
> It includes suggestions, some of which are repeated from my last 
> report and past conference discussion.
>
> Very respectfully,
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> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 5:54:54 PM EDT, <rrovetto at buffalo.edu> wrote:
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>
> Thanks for the feedback and information.
>
> You're right re:the disjunctive term I added. I've now corrected it by 
> separating them into two terms: 'Generic Ontology' and 'Foundational 
> Ontology'. I did likewise for the term, 'Upper or [...]', that was 
> below it.
>
> After thinking about the names and acronyms of particular applied 
> ontologies, my current recommendation is: #3 (question 2, page 3 in my 
> service report), use the full name, alone. We can state a synonym of 
> the acronym, but i don't suggest that because the acronym may be used 
> elsewhere in and outside of ontology.
>
> For term presentation and organization, consider web-based dynamic 
> term lists or online databases. An example is here 
> <https://www.topincs.com/DecentralizeEverything/.index>.
>
>
> ​Robert

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