In metaphysics, ontology is the philosophical study of being. It investigates what types of entities exist, how they are grouped into categories, and how...

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

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

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

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 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...

ontology." The history of ontology in Western philosophy is, in Heidegger's terms, ontical, whereas ontology ought to designate fundamental ontology....

An ontological argument is a philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Applied ontology can involve the practical application of ontological resources to specific domains, such as management, relationships, biomedicine, information...

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

The notion of ontology modularization refers to a methodological principle in ontology engineering. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular...

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

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

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

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

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-...

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

Plant ontology (PO) is a collection of ontologies developed by the Plant Ontology Consortium. These ontologies describe anatomical structures and growth...

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...

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...

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

The Frege–Church ontology is an ontology, a theory of existence. Everything is considered as being in three categories, object (referent, denotation)...