August 10, 2005
Center of Excellence Proposal
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ONTAC stands for Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working Group
It is a working group of
Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP)
A focused position statement
on the notions that has been briefly discussed here regarding the artificiality
of semantic web ontologies is at [bead 188]
Given the repeated non-success of machine ontologies to demonstrate implied promises; one might expect a re-visiting of the, we think proper, notion that logically defined concepts are artificial in nature and do not map to natural reality in the way that the W3C assumes.