Dear Christina-Emile,
> Many cultural phenomena are better documented by free text essays.
Of course. Paraphrasing Borges ("Del rigor en la cienciaā€¯ 1946), the most
accurate ontology of the world is the world itself, including also this
ontology (as part of the world) in such world ontology.
Dear Franca,
The only answer may be 42. Based on my experience from studying 600 excavation
databases in depth and also from the Museum project 20 years ago where we
constructed artefact databases for the university museum, and converted data
into them, I have concluded that formal ontologies a
I agree.
I think there is still an open discussion how to document such things,
but the research questions could be formulated. I agree that we must not
fall in the trap to produce artificial discrimination by crisp classes
between things that are in constant flow and transition. I think a goo