There was some pretty powerful
thinking that went into this, so it might be worth looking at.
ISO 10303 is a pretty expensive standard, but a copy of the relevant
sections probably can be obtained from someone still at NIST, which I left
about 3 years ago.
John Rumble
Vice President
Information Inte
ulti-tasking of a prototype ontology that can be exercised and learned from. The diversity of approaches across science is just too large to get it right the first time.
John Rumble
p.s. Several weeks ago I mentioned some work on nomenclature and linguistic barriers to scientific data standar
An unwritten rule about higher level ontologies is
that they reflect our knowledge today, not tomorrow. As knowledge evolves, the
upper level ontologies, especially, must also evolve. The example of the concept
"protein" is very apropos here. We can view it from functional,
structural, inte
There has been some important work done on this
subject over the last 20 years. A. Shoshoni, F. Olken and others wrote some very
insightful papers about differentiating between different types of independent
variables in an experiment. I have given several talks in recent years about the
pro
