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• InitialLastName 5y ago
  The movie and film production process currently involves a large web of organizations, including both traditional movie production studios and software development firms. These firms have to be able to communicate effectively and work together, so they need a common language that they can use to describe concepts. Since (to paraphrase) the second hardest thing about software development is naming things, and software developers/filmmakers are likely to be unfamiliar with the other field's terminology, this guide is an attempt to provide suggested names of things such that everyone understands one another.
• karaterobot 5y ago
  An ontology describes the things in a system and the relationships between them. By relationships, I don't just mean A is related in some way to B, I mean (for example) A modifies B, or A requires B, or even A eats lunch with B. In short, they relate things to each other using whatever the verbs in that domain are. Imagine a database schema, but with richer information. In theory, if you have a good ontology, you can translate an expert human's understanding of a system to something a computer can also understand. So if, for example, you were going to write software to orchestrate the production of a massive film, or a commercial production studio, you might benefit from a common ontology for film production. In practice, ontologies in the wild have had limited success, historically, compared to expectations in the academic world around the end of the last century.