[Wikipedia-l] Categories considered harmful

[Ronald Chmara]

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