Ontology, Ontologies, and Science

ontology and epistemology in political science

this paper is a farsi translation of the first chapter of thesecond edition of “theory and methods in politicalscience” edited by david marsh and gerry stoker. thischapter was not included in the first edition of the bookpreviously translated by haj yoosefi. the new edition hasmajor differences with the previous one and the otherchapters in the book are written on the basis of the approachexpla...

Ontology construction from online ontologies

One of the main hurdles towards a wide endorsement of ontologies is the high cost of constructing them. Reuse of existing ontologies offers a much cheaper alternative than building new ones from scratch, yet tools to support such reuse are still in their infancy. However, more ontologies are becoming available on the web, and online libraries for storing and indexing ontologies are increasing i...

Ontology (Science)

Increasingly, in data-intensive areas of the life sciences, experimental results are being described in algorithmically useful ways with the help of ontologies. Such ontologies are authored and maintained by scientists to support the retrieval, integration and analysis of their data. The proposition to be defended here is that ontologies of this type – the Gene Ontology (GO) being the most cons...

From Ontology-enabled Services to Service-enabled Ontologies Making Ontologies Work in e-Science with Onto⇔SOA

Making Biomedical Ontologies and Ontology Libraries Work

Today, it is impossible to contemplate successful biomedical research in the absence of canonical data structures. From primary databases (such as those found in GenBank and MEDLINE) to meta-data that describe the primary data (such as those in caBIO) or representable in languages such as DICOM and MAGE-ML (Spellman et al. 2002) to knowledge bases that codify biomedical concepts (such as the Ge...