[tdwg-tag] Re: [Tdwg-guid] (Fwd) Fwd: [TDWG] Announce: Proposal for "microformat" for mar

[Bob Morris]

Roger Hyam wrote:
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 > If some one has an alternative approach I would certainly like to 
hear it!

OGC has an alternative approach. It is the Ontology Definition Metamodel 
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ad/06-05-01.pdf which has a three year 
history of careful consideration of most of the complexities that arise 
in this discussion, clear explication of where they are tricky and what 
some workarounds are, and a ten year history behind it of how to move 
from Platform Independent to Platform Specific Models with eyes wide open.

At http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/EstablishingLsidVocabularies 
you succinctly and elegantly framed your concerns about UML, to which 
this morning I replied that I thought those concerns apply to any 
modeling paradigm one chooses and opened a new topic where I hope they 
will be discussed. 
http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/TAG/OntologyModelingWithUML

I omit below the combinatorial explosion to which this is a reply. Silly 
me, I thought these conversations were supposed to take place on the 
wiki, where you only have each expression in your face once.


Roger Hyam wrote:

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> If some one has an alternative approach I would certainly like to hear it!


> Steve Perry wrote:
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>> Roger Hyam wrote:
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>>> Sally Hinchcliffe wrote:
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>>>> From:               <M.Jackson at kew.org>

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>>>> Forwarded From: Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>

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Robert A. Morris
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