[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 9/11/2003 5:05 pm wrote: You need a better ref ;-) and yet another sowa reference: http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/ontoshar.htm
about the time I was doing some of the system/r (original relational) support infrastructure and tech. transfer to endicott for sql/ds http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr i was also helping with some of the support infrastructure for a semantic network database done as part of a VLSI chip tools effort (at VLSI lab several miles away). Some of it was influenced by Sowa who worked for the company at the time. in another lifetime ... did some work on NLM's UMLS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#26 Misc. more on bidirectional links http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/ http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umlssemn.html Since then we re-created (privately) some of it from scratch and we use it for the RFC index and the merged glossaries: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#glossary total random trivia ... Mockapetris did some work for CSC at about the same time that "G", "M", & "L" were creating "GML" (aka their initials; which has since begot SGML, HTML, XML, FSML, SAML, et. al. ("G", "M", & "L" were all at CSC, 4th floor, 545 tech sq). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/sgmlhist0.html http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/ http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/G320-2094/G320-2094.htm Some of the "ML" history thread was that CERN was a large VM/CMS shop (virtual machines and CMS ... originally cambridge monitor system and now conversational monitor system ... also originating from 4th floor, 545 tech. sq). -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
