Creating ontological definitions for use in science
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Ontologies aim to represent the world in terms of uniquely defined classes and their properties which are expressed as relationships with other classes. They becoming widely used science improve clarity, searching, inference ability link data from different sources. Ontological definitions descriptions that essential entities (which include objects, object attributes processes) distinguish them Classes have unique IRIs (Internationalised Resource Identifiers) can be for searching; they also labels words phrases people use identify class passages text or tables. This article provides a brief guide help writing good ontological definitions. The standard format such definition class, A, is: ‘a B C’ its semantic equivalent, where A is being defined, parent C describes set it members B.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Qeios
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2632-3834']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32388/ygif9b.2