<nettime> internetontology

[brian carroll <human@architexturez.com>]

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>ShelfLife, No. 8 (28 June 2001)
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>ONTOLOGY GUIDE AVAILABLE ONLINE
>More and more organizations and disciplines of study are creating 
>their own ontologies for more efficient Web searches. Among other 
>benefits, ontologies -- explicit formal specifications of the terms 
>in the domain and relations among them -- allow users to share a 
>common understanding of the structure of information among people or 
>software agents. Ontologies may be highly specific, such as those in 
>the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and medicine, or 
>created for more general usage. For example, the United Nations 
>Development Program and Dun & Bradstreet combined efforts to develop 
>the UNSPSC ontology, which provides terminology for products and 
>services. To help sort out the whys and hows, two Stanford 
>University authors have published something of a beginner's guide to 
>creating a useful and usable ontology (available at the URL below). 
>The guide describes an ontology-development methodology for 
>declarative frame-based systems (they used Protege 2000), lists 
>steps in the development process and addresses the complex issues of 
>defining class hierarchies and properties of classes and instances. 
>The authors note there is no single correct ontology for any domain. 
>Ontology design is a creative process and no two ontologies designed 
>by different people would be the same. The potential applications 
>and a designer's understanding and view of the domain will 
>undoubtedly affect ontology design choices. (Ontology Development 
>101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology, Stanford University)
>http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology-tutorial-noy-mcguinne 
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