Re: [xml-dev] Data vs. Process was Re: [xml-dev] Vocabulary Combination ...

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Re: [xml-dev] Data vs. Process was Re: [xml-dev] Vocabulary Combination ...
Jonathan Borden wrote,
> Miles Sabin wrote,
> > Perhaps when you're done with the Tractatus you could move on to
> > the Investigations ;-)
>
> This is hardly an esoteric philosophical argument.

And my reply was? ;-)

> My interest in ontologies originates in my interest in more precisely
> writing and classifying medical documents (which are at the moment
> largely handwritten) and allowing these documents to be better stored
> and retrieved and transmittent from one location to another (e.g. a
> family doctor to a specialist).

In other words, the use of the information contained in those documents 
(ie. the extended mechanical and social processes surrounding them) are 
what gives the markup it's point.

Cheers,


Miles