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Three roles: the developer, the designer and the community

Principle of Delineation:

We assert that Semantic Web technology falls into two major schools of thought

a) The First School of Semantic Science stipulates that ontology supports common sense reasoning with the imposition of constraint logics like OIL (Ontology Inference Layer for RDF – Resource Description Framework).

b) The Second School of Semantic Science stipulates that ontological models enable knowledge sharing, which can best occur with minimal dependency on constraint logics and inferences based completely on algorithms.

Simple Point of View:  Formal ontology is a means to form community consensus and to make explicit some “sufficient” set of constructions. Thus the description logics are to be loosely held and formative, in the sense that the logical entailments are constructed not at design time but in real time. What is left is a dictionary with the elements of a managed, or controlled, vocabulary whose definitions are encoded into a key-less hash table, and whose interchanges are build using an architecture such as described by Fielding (REST architecture).

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