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• Subject: Re: Ontolgies, Mappings and Transformations (was RE: WebServices/SOA)
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:23:38 -0800
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>  However the Semantic Web
> related mapping technologies don't allow for the kind of complex and
> messy mappings that occur in the real world. 

Then what's the point? I should have hoped that Semantic Web 
technologies (and ontologies in particular) would have allowed me to say:

1) Here's a general concept.

2) Here's how you get there from my particular expression of that concept.

Without this, we'll never be able to automatically exchange / integrate 
information, since we'll never agree on a single set of metadata for a 
particular concept.

-- Ron

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