Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development

Authors:
Barry Smith
Affiliations:
Department of Philosophy and National Center for Ontological Research, University at Buffalo, USA and Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The world of ontology development is full of mysteries. Recently, ISO Standard 15926 (“Lifecycle Integration of Process Plant Data Including Oil and Gas Production Facilities”), a data model initially designed to support the integration and handover of large engineering artefacts, has been proposed by its principal custodian for general use as an upper level ontology. As we shall discover, ISO 15926 is, when examined in light of this proposal, marked by a series of quite astonishing defects, which may however provide general lessons for the developers of ontologies in the future.