Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials)

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Why ontologies are best left implicit (especially for credentials)
Doug Belshaw, Ambiguiti.es, 2016/08/02
This is exactly right: "the attempt to define what ‘exists’ within a given system is usually a conservative, essentialist move. It’s often concerned with retro-fitting new things into the current status quo, a kind of Kuhnian attempt to save what might be termed ‘normal science’." More...