On Jun 20, 2004, at 1:52 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote: In the field of digital libraries, there is a subculture that likes to discuss "thesauri and ontologies", especially bordering on the "semantic web" subculture. It seems to me that most people in the thesauri and ontologies subculture are from Germany and have some kind of German library science background. I'm talking about stuff like http://www.ecdl2003.org/ecdl.tutorials.html#tutorial4 and http://www.jcdl2004.org/tutorials.htm#t2a
I checked those links and am not any further ahead. I think that I can understand how thesauri might be relevant; however, I'm puzzled by how they have imported a term from metaphysics to serve their purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29
-Bop