Call for contributions

[Brian Thomas]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 12:42 pm, Rob Seaman wrote:
> Yes and no.  Yes this is the correct path to follow.  No, I am skeptical that a single 
> universe-girdling ontology will emerge at the end of the day.  If the VO semantic 
> efforts fail, it will be due to over-reaching and over-generalization.  We need to 
> define a process for building separate, project and purpose specific, ontologies (plural).   
> 

	I largely agree with this approach. There is no reason that user-ontologies cannot
	pick and choose whom they wish to inherit from. The downside is that some
	data that are semantically described in an ontology that the user does not use
	will not be discoverable.

	=b.t.

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