Via Seb’s Open Research comes a thoughtful piece from Eugene Eric Kim about ontologies in general and specifically whether Ontologists eat their own dogfood that led him to conclude
“I believe, more than ever, that developing shared ontology needs to be an explicit activity when collaborating in any domain. I’ll discuss where or whether Semantic Web technologies fit in, in a later post.”We are still at that early stage where ontologies are most interesting in theory than in practice, but the barriers to collaborative ontology development becoming standard practice in knowledge sharing within and between domains are not huge. It is not difficult to imagine a time when we can easily exchange/merge ontologies as manifestations of our different perspectives on knowledge and the world at large.