Oliver Ruebenacker <cur...@gmail.com> writes: > The challenge of building ontologies is not technical, but > socio-political.
I think this very much depends on the ontology that you are creating and what it's purpose is. When we created the karyotype ontology, there was no socio-political challenge at all; the knowledge was all there in the first place. The problem was to create a complex and repetitive ontology consistently, which behaved correctly. This is a technical challenge, which I think we solved. Another problem we are trying to address is linking the axiomatisation through to the documentation and provenance for that axiomatisation; again, a largely technical challenge. There are challenges associated with getting agreement and coming to an consensus, of course, but these are hardly unique to ontology building. Phil