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- Knowledge Representation workshop @ CCH
Last month or so I started a Knowledge Representation workshop with my colleagues at CCH. The basic idea is to take a broad perspective on the various topics related to KR, and then focus on the digital humanities so to see how these approaches and technologies can be best applied to our domain. What is […]
- Getting back to the ontological work..
I’ll be working in Osaka for three months on ontologizing a couple of datasets with the help of Riichiro Mizoguchi. This means that I’ll have enough time to revise various notions about ontology engineering during this period. Here’s a first and fundamental one, regarding the difference between ontologies and data models: The difference between ontologies […]
- Logic and Ontology
I found an interesting article on the SEP this morning, it seemed to me well written and clearly argumented. ‘Logic and ontology‘, by Thomas Hofweber. Defining logic and ontology is not an easy thing – maybe because it is just a truism to say that there is one unifying view of what they they are. […]
- Modeling Representations (take 2)
I wrote something in the last weeks about the difficulties related to the modeling of representations and their contents. So today I just read this article by Stefano Mazzocchi, which basically hints at the same issue, but from an ‘RDF perspective’. It’s a very interesting article, so I just wanted to quote and comment a […]
- Ontology of Representations
It’s been three days that I’m struggling with concepts of content, form, representation and so on.. I wonder whether there’s a well-formalized theory of representations out there.. the one in DOLCE is a useful design pattern, but I’m still reluctant to say that it is complete (I hope I’ll find out to be wrong). Another […]