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20050408 Friday April 08, 2005

Word of the Day

ontology

noun - a branch of study concerned with the nature and relations of being

In IT, an ontology is the explicit specification of a conceptualization in a particular domain. An ontology includes entities, relationships, and rules relevant to the domain of interest.
( Apr 08 2005, 08:32:25 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [2]

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Your definition is used mainly in philosophy. In IT, ontology is a set of expressions and relations to define a semantic for a given context. Real world is described so that a machine can understand it and decide what statement is true or false.

Ontology is mostly used in semantic web -- an initiative to describe a meaning or context of WWW pages.

See wikipedia.org for more information.

Posted by Petr Tomasek on April 08, 2005 at 09:24 AM PDT #

I provided the definition used in philosophy since it is the definition on which the IT definition is based. I went ahead and added an IT-oriented definition as well. Thanks, Petr.

Posted by BrandonETaylor on April 11, 2005 at 01:32 AM PDT #

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