Re: Ontology icon???

Subject: Re: Ontology icon???
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:49:07 -0500


I wrote:
> Here is the first Google hit on 'ontology...'
> "An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization. ... "
>
> If that doesn't clear it up, there's this:
> "...an ontology is a specification used for making ontological
commitments.

OK, that was a little unfair of me to copy those definitions out of context,
but you get the drift. Clearly, if we as technical writers are tasked with
explaining how ontologies are useful to ordinary people, we have our work
cut out for us.

Mike O.



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