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> Are there any real success stories for "ontolgies" like this? It seems like a lot of them are made, but they're ultimately not that useful. Back in the dot-c

> Are there any real success stories for "ontolgies" like this? It seems like a lot of them are made, but they're ultimately not that useful. Back in the dot-com era I was marginally involved in a project proposal for a business spun-out of a logistics company. They had developed an ontology that supposedly captured their parent business's (admittedly extensive) knowledge of global logistics, and had then built a multi-layered process model on top of it. From what I recall, the business model was that you could buy vertical (logistics speciality) and horizontal (level of detail) slices through the model that would express a subset of the domain knowledge in a way that could be somehow implemented (or executed?). It seemed very clever, as did the people, and the one time I went to their offices the walls were pretty-much covered in diagrams and post-its defining their massive model. I heard later that they had shut-down due to lack of sales.

kbenson 5y ago
Sometimes it's hard to know if a business failed because the idea was bad, the market wasn't ready, they didn't execute well, they didn't advertise themselves effectively to let clients that could benefit know what they could offer, or some combination of multiple of those. What you described sounds really interesting and useful if I understand it correctly, and I can think of multiple times over the past decade plus that it would have been useful to use as a consultant for companies I've worked for, if it wasn't too costly.
- andyjohnson0 5y ago
  > What you described sounds really interesting and useful if I understand it correctly, and I can think of multiple times over the past decade plus that it would have been useful to use as a consultant for companies I've worked for, if it wasn't too costly. Yeah I think I was maybe unfair on them to end it that way. They were probably ahead of their time, and it was a hard sell. I hope the people there went on to do more good things.

kbenson 5y ago

Sometimes it's hard to know if a business failed because the idea was bad, the market wasn't ready, they didn't execute well, they didn't advertise themselves effectively to let clients that could benefit know what they could offer, or some combination of multiple of those. What you described sounds really interesting and useful if I understand it correctly, and I can think of multiple times over the past decade plus that it would have been useful to use as a consultant for companies I've worked for, if it wasn't too costly.

andyjohnson0 5y ago
> What you described sounds really interesting and useful if I understand it correctly, and I can think of multiple times over the past decade plus that it would have been useful to use as a consultant for companies I've worked for, if it wasn't too costly. Yeah I think I was maybe unfair on them to end it that way. They were probably ahead of their time, and it was a hard sell. I hope the people there went on to do more good things.