Self-Annotating Identifiers       INDEX -- SPECS -- EDITOR -- USES

We all know 20 QUESTIONS let one model something well enough to SEMANTICALLY distinguish it from most other things.  This one-page "upper ontology" begins such a process, by asking you general questions about the meaning of one NOUN in your Namespace.

Your answers will mutate into a unique URI for it, custom-made to publicly model its nature and axioms as you envision them. Try it. See if you don't agree this form can build a URI which loosely models the noun meaning you have in mind:


   <= symbol

 What meaning do you assign it?

  1. Make 6 binary choices in blue area
     
  2. Is it Composite or a Characteristic
     
  3. Submit via best-fit sub-Type option
     

Individual

Collective
Specific Indefinite
Real Imaginary
Natural Artificial
Concrete Information
Basic Mediating
Thing
------Entity
------------      Substance
------------Object
------Occurrent
------------Situation
------------Process
Aspect
------Identifier
------------Name
------------Locator
------Property
------------      DataType
------------Associate


This upper ontology registry can define words, phrases and sentences so that software "understands" what they denote. In June 2011, it won U.S. patent 7,962,328.

SAIDs can add speed and accuracy to many semantic applications - ours or yours. For more about using them, write Dan Corwin