What use the AstroOntology

[Andrea Preite Martinez]

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> I believe that this is the way to go: Develop a good ontology for
> astronomy, but leave the controversial issues to the communities.
> Then, develop tools that lets astronomers tag resources, but also
> declare clearly what they mean by those tags.
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Well, welcome back to the starting case! :-)

Just a few remarks: we don't want to build THE ontology of astronomy,  
but just AN ontology of the subset of astronomy that has to do with  
(observed) objects or phenomena.

Observational data are (in general!) not controversial: it is not  
controversial that LINER galaxies present a nucleus with spectral line  
emission from weakly ionized or neutral atoms, such as O, O+, N+, and  
S+, and weak line emission from strongly ionized atoms, such as O++,  
Ne++, and He+.
This is the information (the knowledge) that goes into the ontology.

Which is the origin of this emission (AGN or star formation region) is  
debated, until new observations will allow to better understand the  
problem. It is then not a question of "voting", tagging their pet  
hypothesis.

Fortunately enough we did'n solve the controversy "Is the Earth  
obiting the Sun or the other way round" by voting: our text-books  
today whould say that the Sun is orbiting the Earth!!!!

Cheers!

Andrea

PS: even today, I wouldn?t dare to expose that problem to a public vote....

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