Ontology is the philosophical study of being. As one of the most fundamental concepts, being encompasses all of reality and every entity within it. To...
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In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the...
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information science, an upper ontology (also known as a top-level ontology, upper model, or foundation ontology) is an ontology (in the sense used in information...
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The Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species. More specifically...
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The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies...
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In philosophy, the term formal ontology is used to refer to an ontology defined by axioms in a formal language with the goal to provide an unbiased (domain-...
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and systems engineering, ontology engineering is a field which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, which encompasses a representation...
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Social ontology is a branch of ontology. Ontology is the philosophical study of being and existence; social ontology, specifically, examines the social...
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Metaontology or meta-ontology is the study of the field of inquiry known as ontology. The goal of meta-ontology is to clarify what ontology is about and how...
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In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence...
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The notion of ontology modularization refers to a methodological principle in ontology engineering. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular...
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Guerrilla ontology is a practice described by author Robert Anton Wilson in his 1980 book The Illuminati Papers as "the basic technique of all my books...
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the distinction between ontical and ontological, or between beings and being as such. He labeled this the "ontological difference." It is from this distinction...
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Applied ontology is the application of Ontology for practical purposes. This can involve employing ontological methods or resources to specific domains...
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The Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) is an ontology for the Semantic Web to describe bibliographic things like books or magazines. It is written in RDF and...
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Foundational Model of Anatomy (redirect from Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology)
The Foundational Model of Anatomy Ontology (FMA) is a reference ontology for the domain of human anatomy. It is a symbolic representation of the canonical...
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In philosophy, a core ontology is a basic and minimal ontology consisting only of the minimal concepts required to understand the other concepts. It must...
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In the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support...
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Political ontology is an approach within anthropology to understand the process of how practices, entities (human and non-human), and concepts come into...
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Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain...
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computer science and artificial intelligence, ontology languages are formal languages used to construct ontologies. They allow the encoding of knowledge about...
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The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is a formal ontology of human phenotypes. Developed as part of the Monarch Initiative in collaboration with members...
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Cell Ontology is an ontology that aims at capturing the diversity of cell types in animals. It is part of the Open Biomedical and Biological Ontologies (OBO)...
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Ontology learning (ontology extraction,ontology augmentation generation, ontology generation, or ontology acquisition) is the automatic or semi-automatic...
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Contemporary ontologies share many structural similarities, regardless of the ontology language in which they are expressed. Most ontologies describe individuals...
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The ontological turn is an increased interest in ontology within a number of philosophical and academic disciplines during the early 2000s. The ontological...
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Ontology mapping may refer to: Ontology alignment, the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies Semantic integration, the...
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process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies, in contrast...
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The Disease Ontology (DO) is a formal ontology of human disease. The Disease Ontology project is hosted at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University...
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The General Formal Ontology (GFO) is an upper ontology integrating processes and objects. GFO has been developed by Heinrich Herre, Barbara Heller and...
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