Key questions on Common Upper Ontology
4/20/2004 10:17
AM
Structural ontology directed at allowing optimal transmission, control and use of data structure and structural context has been discussed as part of our conversations:
Graph representation of
knowledge bead thread
Two Macromedia presentations (one for Macs and one for Windows) develop a competitive alternative for almost all of the semantic interoperable standards that are being discussed. Many of the problems that are address at great length are simply by-passed by changing the statement of the problem. The adoption of CoreSystem would allow the various community to move on to the next step.
Sandy Klausner is a unique individual who has worked, in relative isolation, on the notion that Iconic programming should replace ASCII-text based programming languages. His work is informed by some basic science and social theory supplied by other members of the circle of scientists whom we talk.
His work extended back over a period of 17 years, and is currently positioned for investment. CoreSystem can become the infrastructure for emerging Net-centric operating environments.
But, the work is not adopted and is still in a pre-adoption stage. The general theory of innovation transformation into adopted practice is considered in the BCNGroup bead thread:
Technological Innovation as an
Evolutionary Process
The thread on innovation adoption is a side discussion on which we invite comment.
Objective C and the NeXTStep’s interface builder design principles influenced Sandy’s Cubicon iconic programming language. He studied the semantic intent of a wide range of languages and toolsets and integrated many approaches into a comprehensive language environment expressed in a novel iconic syntax. But more exciting to me has been his recognition of the empirical observation that structural invariance in context is actually far less diverse than one would expect given many commonly accepted notions.
The notions
1) Data regularity in context provides a means to produce situational knowledge representations using natural language or some other type of “semiotic sign system”.
2) The abandonment of ASCII text based programming languages
3) The balancing of language expression to the iconic realm that better utilizes human capability to perform pattern recognition.
4) Community based reconciliation processes based on open and protected intellectual property
As these notions bring pressure to change directly to the Semantic Web community, I will simply close this note with a diagram that Sandy just sent to me to post to the SICoP group discussion.