ontology
specification of a conceptualization
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Summary
ontology ranks in the top 10% of field of study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,408 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: knowledge base[2], data model[3], data schema[4], specification[5], knowledge organization system[6]
- Commons category: Ontology[7]
- Said to be the same as: knowledge graph[8]
- Has part(s): ABox[9], TBox[10], RBox[11], class[12], relation[13], attribute[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ontology (information science)[15]
- Described at URL: https://tomgruber.org/writing/onto-design.pdf[16], https://perso.liris.cnrs.fr/alain.mille/enseignements/Ecole_Centrale/What%20is%20an%20ontology%20and%20why%20we%20need%20it.htm[17]
- Facet of: knowledge representation[18], knowledge base[19], knowledge graph[20]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/ontology[21]
- Used by: frame-based expert system[22], Semantic Web[23]
- Has characteristic: similarity[24]
- Native label: computational ontology[25]
- Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OPMI_0000682[26], http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/juristic#Ontology[27], http://emmo.info/domain-mappings#Ontology[28]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C21270[29]
- Different from: ontology[30], thesaurus[31], taxonomy[32]
- ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011147[33]
- Uses: controlled vocabulary[34]
- Studied by: ontology engineering[35], computer science[36], information science[37], artificial intelligence[38], natural language processing[39], knowledge engineering[40]
- Exact match: http://w3id.org/nkos/nkostype#ontology[41], http://purl.org/spar/fabio/Ontology[42]
- Significant person: Tom Gruber[43], Barry Smith[44], Heinrich Herre[45], Nicola Guarino[46]
- Named by: artificial intelligence researcher[47]
Why It Matters
ontology has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] ontology is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]