Ontologies don't do things though, right? An ontology's "infrastructure" is really just a human being with a certain kind of understanding about things coupled with his or her rules, vocabularies, and technological means of achieving certain kinds of change.
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Well, yes, many people, and it can be that no single person has the whole story. In fact that’s typical.
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Did I ever send you this http://www.ai.sri.com/~travers/onto-revised.pdf … (a rambly paper on the social processes involved in ontology construction)?
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According to the acknowledgments, yes, you did! I am less embarrassed not to remember it since you don’t remember either :) Great paper, from which I will probably borrow and cite!
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The marketing book /Crossing the Chasm/ is relevant, including a discussion of what happens after the niche. Also Lakatos's /Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes/ for both the development from a "hard core" and also what counts as confirmation.
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Thanks! Yes, I think I had both of those in mind when I wrote that.
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An absence of some of these support structures is evident in the many failed ontology projects I have seen.
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