Ontology (information science)

Formal description of the concepts in a domain and the relations between them, which software can use to reason about data.

alternative to

• Folksonomy concept 2004 [src]
  bottom-up tagging instead of formal, top-down categories

subject of

• A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications writing 1993 [src]
• Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology writing 2001 [src]
• Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags writing 2005 [src]
• Ontology Matching writing 2007 [src]

influenced by

• Frames concept 1974 [src]
• Semantic network concept 1956 [src]
• Taxonomy concept [src]

built upon by

• BBC dynamic semantic publishing project 2010 [src]
• Cyc project 1984 [src]
• Entailment and inference concept [src]
• Gene Ontology project 1998 [src]
• OBO Foundry project 2007 [src]
• OWL standard 2004 [src]
• Upper ontology concept [src]