Monday, November 22, 2004
Interview with Tom Gruber
Interview with Tom Gruber
"Every ontology is a treaty – a social agreement – among people with some common motive in sharing."
"In fact, the World Wide Web is based on a semiformal ontology, and it shows how ontological commitment works in software interoperability. At its core, the concept of the hyperlink is based on an ontological commitment to object identity. In order to hyperlink to an object requires that there be a stable notion of object and that its identity doesn’t depend on context (which page I am on now, or time, or who I am). Most of the machinery of the early Web standards are specifications of what can be an object with identity, and how to identify it independently of context. These standards documents serve as ontologies – specifications of the concepts that you need to commit to if you want to play fairly on the Web."
"I was impressed by how far users of Intraspect could go by sharing a collective memory of unstructured and semistructured content. Thousands of people were able to learn from each other every day, without having to know who needed to know or whom to ask. A key insight to why it works so well is the role of context. With Intraspect, information was captured in the work context of its creation (projects, sales deals, customer relationships). The context itself provides a powerful semantic label on the content, even if the content is largely unstructured."
"Every ontology is a treaty – a social agreement – among people with some common motive in sharing."
"In fact, the World Wide Web is based on a semiformal ontology, and it shows how ontological commitment works in software interoperability. At its core, the concept of the hyperlink is based on an ontological commitment to object identity. In order to hyperlink to an object requires that there be a stable notion of object and that its identity doesn’t depend on context (which page I am on now, or time, or who I am). Most of the machinery of the early Web standards are specifications of what can be an object with identity, and how to identify it independently of context. These standards documents serve as ontologies – specifications of the concepts that you need to commit to if you want to play fairly on the Web."
"I was impressed by how far users of Intraspect could go by sharing a collective memory of unstructured and semistructured content. Thousands of people were able to learn from each other every day, without having to know who needed to know or whom to ask. A key insight to why it works so well is the role of context. With Intraspect, information was captured in the work context of its creation (projects, sales deals, customer relationships). The context itself provides a powerful semantic label on the content, even if the content is largely unstructured."
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