What is an ontology and why we need it
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology
Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305
Why would someone want to develop an ontology? Some of the reasons are:
· To share common understanding of the structure of information among people or software agents
· To enable reuse of domain knowledge
· To make domain assumptions explicit
· To separate domain knowledge from the operational knowledge
· To analyze domain knowledge
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