Cultural factors. When you try to get a group of stakeholders to develop a schema you find many people feel the same way about visiting the ontologist that they do to the orthodontist.
It takes a huge amount of patience to spend 1 1/2 hours working out the ontology of an application with a customer and then get called back right away because the customer felt uncomfortable because the rigorous and correct model you just made doesn't fit their intuition about the situation.
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Cultural factors. When you try to get a group of stakeholders to develop a schema you find many people feel the same way about visiting the ontologist that they do to the orthodontist.
It takes a huge amount of patience to spend 1 1/2 hours working out the ontology of an application with a customer and then get called back right away because the customer felt uncomfortable because the rigorous and correct model you just made doesn't fit their intuition about the situation.