Big science has a buzzword problem
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Ontology: buzzword or paradigm shift in GI science?
It is apparent that the term ontology is used recently more and more in the context of GI Science (e.g., Frank 1997; Smith and Varzi 1997; Kemp and Vckovski 1998; Smith and Mark 1998; Bittner and Winter 1999; Rodriguez et al. 1999; Fonseca et al. 2000; Timpf 2001). Is ontology then a buzzword, or a real paradigm shift? What is in it? Can ontology, for example, be the key to interoperability (Vc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/541450a