Re: Any reason for ontology reuse?

Thank you all for the detailed comments, but in my initial message I
didn't mean a "formal list" from an organization like the W3C or other
standardization bodies as some of you mentioned. I was just looking
for an indexing service (API) where I can find properties and classes
based on popularity with conservation of the decentralized approach of
the Web. A concept is not popular due to standardization or applicable
in every language and every ___domain perspective, but is popular because
it simply works or because the popularity is caused by powerful
organizations like Facebook,Google,etc who accepted these
vocabularies/ontologies in their system.

I think the API I talk about should be included into eg. ontology
editors. I can imagine a simple string search possibility to find a
popular ontology/property/class and easily reuse it into your own
dataset?

Cheers,
Martijn


2010/12/8 Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>:
> In general, I think that the Semantic Web must use a decentralized approach
> for the definition and adoption of conceptual elements, same as the Web uses
> decentralized, fault-tolerant approaches as a fundamental principle. So
> calling for standardization bodies to maintain "authoritative" vocabularies
> will not work at Web Scale, IMO. At least, standards bodies may be to slow
> to provide ontologies and ontology updates (INCOTERMS, for instance, updates
> it's definition of trade terms only once per decade)
>
> A few related papers:
>
> 1. Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant
> Ontologies, in: IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 90-96, Jan-Feb
> 2007
> PDF: http://www.heppnetz.de/files/IEEE-IC-PossibleOntologies-published.pdf
>
> 2. E-Business Vocabularies as a Moving Target: Quantifying the Conceptual
> Dynamics in Domains, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
> Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2008), September 29 -
> October 3, 2008 (forthcoming), Acitrezza, Italy, Springer LNCS, Vol. 5268,
> pp. 388-403.
> PDF: http://www.heppnetz.de/files/ConceptualDynamics-EKAW2008-CRC-final6.pdf
>
> Best
> Martin
>
>

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