Liz Edols has written a great introductory article on what exactly are Taxonomies? …’structures that provide a way of classifying things – living organisms, products, books – into a series …
Differences between vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus, ontology & meta-model
A great article which discusses and looks at the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model. Contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company, …
W3C OWL becomes Candidate Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have issued a Candidate Recommendation for OWL, The Web Ontology Language. OWL is a language for defining structured Web-based ontologies that enables richer integration …
What is an Ontology?
A definition of What is an Ontology? www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html
A definition of Ontology
Ontology [1] is that department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and …