Friday, April 07, 2006
The Second School of Semantic Science
ontologyMapping Glass Bead Games
Focus on the Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP)
and
related discussion about views, viewpoints and community centric
Continuing
discussion on the SOS CoP forum
Communication from Paul
Jay,
The communication you sent is indeed very relevant to the issue of how IT standards treat the phenomenon of community, or enterprise (or social network).
I have posted your communication at: [39]
noting for others that your (25 years of) work on telecommunications and large distributed computing systems (needing control) has focused on the machine side of the anticipatory web. Now, government and industry is more and more focused (or trying to focus) on the human side of the web. Even with this focus, the novelty of emergent phenomenon (in switching networks - see the work at Santa Fe Institute and by Stu Kauffman).
I again mention (our opinion) that the BioPAX work (using OWL Full) is the leading edge in the attempted application of description logic based ontology (www.bioPAX.org) and the issues related to (1) data integration from data sources that already assume/assert a strong deterministic nature to cell and gene expression and 2) response degeneracy (as the term is used by Nobel prize winner Gerald Edelman). #2 is related to the technical specification of "n-ary" and "n-articulated ontology" to be developed in a new technical specification (see below).
Google with only two hits (smiles)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22n-articulated+ontology%22&btnG=Search
The second school asserts that "semantic" is overused and not centric to the social/cognitive aspects of human interaction, and thus suggests that "anticipatory” web is a better phrase for what is "next" in mankind's flirting with distributed collaboration and distributed intelligence.
But the so called "second school" does not have very much of the problem/solution figured out. So we are considering/attempting the formation of a OASIS Technical Committee focused on :
Community Centric Service Methodology.
Here is a summary of the discussion up to now:
Re-expression and unification of some standards
We suggest that the following standards (mostly OASIS) be synthesized and re-expressed in the (possible) OASIS CCSM standard.
WSDL
ebXML
BCM
Topic Maps
OWL Full
BPEL
BPMN
UML
SOA=IM
SOA-CS
FERA
(Cory and others are also pointing to the RM-ODP as discussed at [38] )
We feel that three phrases are important so as to make distinctions
services web-services service webs
and we will use this language in the CCSM.