Ontology

Definitions

a logical theory accounting for the intended meaning of a formal vocabulary, i.e. its ontological commitment to a particular conceptualization of the world. The intended models of a logical language using such a vocabulary are constrained by its ontological commitment. An ontology indirectly reflects this commitment (and the underlying conceptualization) by approximating these intended models.

Thoughts

• "facts assumed to always be true by a community" is tricky
  • a-box assertions about a fictional setting could qualify as an ontology.

"Schools"

• Philosophy School
• Vocabulary and Taxonomy School
  • These taxonomies often model a domain as hierarchical structures without defining what a link in the hierarchy actually means. As a result, they often mix sub-component and sub-class hierarchies.
• Relational School
• Object-Oriented School
• Standards School
• Linked Data School
• NLP/LLM School
• Data-Centric School

Issues

Ontology Libraries

Romulus Ontohub Org Ontology Lookup Service ontologydesignpatterns.org https://github.com/iddi/sofia/tree/master/eu.sofia.adk.common/ontologies/foundational

Formal Upper Ontologies

Basic Formal Ontology GFO CIDOC-CRM UMBEL – Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer, a subset of OpenCyc DOLCE DNS Ultralite DOLCE Lite-Plus Lite Sumo has an associated open source Sigma knowledge engineering environment. Sigmakee

Mid-level Ontologies

Cognitive Characteristics Ontology

Solutions

Oxo / Ontology Lookup Service

Related

@quine's ontological relativity

Resources

• https://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html
• https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540709992
• [+][prdct.w3id]]
• The Ontology of Relations
• OntoJIT: Exploiting CLR Compiler Support for Performing Entailment Reasoning over Executable Ontologies
• https://tdan.com/the-data-centric-revolution-best-practices-and-schools-of-ontology-design/31412
• [Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your
• First Ontology](https://www.cs.upc.edu/~jvazquez/teaching/sma-upc/docs/ontology101.pdf)
• Foundational Ontologies in Action
• Developing and using ontologies in behavioural science: addressing issues raised
• An Introduction to Ontology Engineering Keet
• Ontology Development 101 a Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
• https://dgarijo.github.io/Widoco/doc/bestPractices/index-en.html

Resource List

Where to Publish and Find Ontologies a Survey of Ontology Libraries mentions: Cupboard (dead) Obo Foundry Ontology Lookup Service ontologydesignpatterns.org mentions: Cognitive Characteristics Ontology Ontohub Org

References

• Formal Ontologies and Information Systems
• https://web.njit.edu/~geller/what_is_an_ontology.html

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Children

1. Applied Ontology
2. Classonomies
3. Continuant Vs Occurrent
4. Event
5. Fictional
6. Foundational Ontology
7. Four Category
8. Information Bearing Entity
9. Information Content Entity
10. Metadata
11. Modular Ontologies
12. Multi-Level Theory
13. Powerclass
14. Processes
15. Publication
16. Upper Ontologies

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Backlinks

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