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...

In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the...

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...

The Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species. More specifically...

Social ontology is a branch of ontology. Ontology is the philosophical study of being and existence; social ontology, specifically, examines the social...

and systems engineering, ontology engineering is a field which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, which encompasses a representation...

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies...

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-...

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...

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...

In the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support...

In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence...

Applied ontology is the application of Ontology for practical purposes. This can involve employing ontological methods or resources to specific domains...

Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology developed by Barry Smith and his associates for the purposes of promoting interoperability among domain...

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...

the distinction between ontical and ontological, or between beings and being as such. He labeled this the "ontological difference." It is from this distinction...

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...

Contemporary ontologies share many structural similarities, regardless of the ontology language in which they are expressed. Most ontologies describe individuals...

computer science and artificial intelligence, ontology languages are formal languages used to construct ontologies. They allow the encoding of knowledge about...

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...

Political ontology is an approach within anthropology to understand the process of how practices, entities (human and non-human), and concepts come into...

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...

The ontological turn is an increased interest in ontology within a number of philosophical and academic disciplines during the early 2000s. The ontological...

process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies, in contrast...

Ontology learning (ontology extraction, ontology generation, or ontology acquisition) is the automatic or semi-automatic creation of ontologies, including...

Ontology alignment, or ontology matching, is the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies. A set of correspondences is also...

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)...

Ontology mapping may refer to: Ontology alignment, the process of determining correspondences between concepts in ontologies Semantic integration, the...

The FAO geopolitical ontology is an ontology developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to describe, manage and exchange...

The Function-Behaviour-Structure ontology – or short, the FBS ontology – is an ontology of design objects, i.e. things that have been or can be designed...