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| Name: | ontology |
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| Description: | A reference tool containing an explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them.NOTE: The subject of ontology is the study of the categories of things that exist or may exist in some domain. The product of such a study, called an ontology, is a catalog of the types of things that are assumed to exist in a domain of interest D from the perspective of a person who uses a language L for the purpose of talking about D. The types in the ontology represent the predicates, word senses, or concept and relation types of the language L when used to discuss topics in the domain D. (John Sowa cofounder of VivoMind Intelligence, Inc.)URR-Comment:In the URR, we are not defining the GEOSS ontology. However, at a latter stage, ontologies defined by others will be mapped onto the URR Lexicon. |
| Type: | Noun |
| Term is: | Glossary, Keyword | | Term has: | | |
