Hateful word of the day

[chickenfeet]

Can I just say that the word 'ontologizing' is vile and disgusting? It's bad enough that the IT world has hijacked 'ontology' to mean a controlled vocabulary crossed with an entity relationship diagram but to turn it into a verb is beyond unspeakable.

Comments

[metalana.livejournal.com]

Do tell how "ontologizing" was used... Forewarned is forearmed.
(Last week I wrote a blurb about what you might really need when someone has turned you on to ontologies: a thesaurus or a data model, most likely.)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

In this case it was, I think, a rules engine being applied to data coming in from different sources to determine what the possible valid uses for the data were. So a mother could be the parent of a diabetic child who takes insulin but a child could not be the parent of a diabetic insulin who takes mother.