What does it mean for an organization “to exist”? Building upon the philosophical notion of ontologies as theories existence, I outline a theory organizational ontology supported by premise that organizations contain implicit existential conventions provide their members with understanding what joint existence is. This study aims to answer two questions. First, constitutes ontology? Second, how...

Semantic data integration provides the ability to interrelate and analyze information from multiple heterogeneous resources. With growing complexity of medical ontologies big generated different resources, there is a need for integrating finding relationships between distinct concepts where these have logical relationships. Standardized Medical Ontologies are explicit specifications shared conc...

BioPortal is a repository of biomedical ontologies-the largest such repository, with more than 300 ontologies to date. This set includes ontologies that were developed in OWL, OBO and other formats, as well as a large number of medical terminologies that the US National Library of Medicine distributes in its own proprietary format. We have published the RDF version of all these ontologies at ht...