Practical Application of Ontologies

A Practical Application of Ontologies for Knowledge Sharing and Trading

This paper describes why and how an ontology facilitates the sharing and trading of knowledge. It intoduces the underlying concept of a knowledge market place and how an ontology provides for the understanding of, and confidence and trust into knowledge products. Three case studies show real life examples of the approach. Additionally, the Information Ontology itself and the issues related to i...

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Starting from the ’90s, ontologies have emerged as an important research topic investigated by several research communities (including the database community) and used especially in defining standards for data exchange, information integration, and interoperability. The word “ontology” comes from medieval philosophy, where it was used to talk about the existence of beings in the world (Guarino ...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals

One Practical Algorithm of Creating Teaching Ontologies

The paper presents one practical approach aimed at developing teaching ontologies. The underlying research framework is pursuing a methodology that will scaffold the process of knowledge structuring and ontology design. Moreover, special stress should be placed on visual design as a powerful learning mind tool. For more comprehensible understanding the process of developing a practical ontology...

Generating Application Ontologies from Reference Ontologies

The semantic web provides the possiblity of linking together large numbers of biomedical ontologies. Unfortunately, many of the biomedical ontologies that have been developed are domain-specific and do not share a common structure that will allow them to be easily combined. Reference ontologies provide the necessary ontological framework for linking together these smaller, specialized ontologie...