Let the ontology fun begin: (01)
Will we break our efforts down into categories? (02)
1. E-Text
2. E-Music
3. E-Graphics (03)
I am translating Curtis Roads, Computer Music Tutorial into Chinese.
This is the basis for a computer music vocabulary. (04)
What is the approach to multiple languages in the XML, RDF, OWL world?
I think it's just a matter of having slots for alternative class names
in other languages. (05)
This is potentially very interesting. Chinese and Hindi for example,
should prove to be very rich in sensory / perception vocabulary -
which may uncover black holes in the Western ontology. While cognitive
science will certainly learn a great deal from Buddhist, Taoist and
Sanskrit sources. Scope is relevant here; acoustics and optics go into
these areas. (06)
There is a very interesting literature on Chinese Ontology that goes
back to the YiJing (I Ching). The ontology should be in multiple
languages (which the KIF browser does support - or maybe just the
interface is in multiple languages). The point is that ontology has
much to learn from comparing systems of categorization. Look at Western
and Eastern Medicine. The Western ontology is based on systems theory
while Chinese ontology is based on a different frame of reference and
dynamics regarding change, morphology, and even existence. (07)
ken (08)
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