[Person-ontology] Let's get started

[Pat Hayes]

>  > Let's start with self-introductions (for those who wish to speak
>  > up at this point).

My name is Pat Hayes, a senior scientist (meaningless title) at 
Florida IHMC, which is a smallish research center on the Gulf coast. 
My background is in AI/KR with a focus on logical techniques, and Ive 
been interested in ontologies since before they were being called 
'ontologies'. Ive been active in the W3C Semantic Web activity, 
helping develop some of the basic specs (DAML, RDF, RDFS, OWL and 
SPARQL; but not RIF or OWL 1.1, as I now have 
standardization-burnout.) I also co-authored the ISO Common Logic 
standard (to-be; its now in final committee review) and led the group 
that developed IKL, a self-describing CL extension. Current activity 
includes collaborating with visual artists to apply semantic 
techniques to the descriptions of artwork. I was a member of Jim's 
SUO group for a while, and was probably one reason it never got to 
consensus. IMO, the goal of a trying to create a single definitive 
'upper ontology' is mistaken, and leads inevitably to interminable 
and unresolvable philosophical arguments; so I am delighted to see 
that energy is now being applied to more useful work on real topics, 
like Persons.

Pat Hayes

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