Subject: RE: recommended reading From: "Marwan Sabbouh" Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:24:56 -0500 To: "'Leo Obrst'" CC: "'Ontology List MITRE'" , "'semantic-web-list - Semantic Web Activit'" I will read it. This is what I concluded so far. In our MOIE, We use "ontology" as defined by Gruber (1995) or Ontology as a "specification of a conceptualization" (I think those are the same exact thing) Then domain ontology is the specification of a conceptualization in a particular domain. Information systems ontology is comprised of domain ontology plus the modeling of the processes in a domain. Marwan -----Original Message----- From: owner-semantic-web-list@lists.mitre.org [mailto:owner-semantic-web-list@lists.mitre.org] On Behalf Of Leo Obrst Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:50 PM To: Marwan Sabbouh Cc: 'Ontology List MITRE'; 'semantic-web-list - Semantic Web Activit' Subject: Re: recommended reading Marwan, I'd also recommend Guarino's seminal paper, Ontologies and Knowledge Bases: Towards a Terminological Clarification. http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/KBKS95.pdf. Originally published as: Guarino, N.; Giaretta, P. 1995. Ontologies and Knowledge Bases: Towards a Terminological Clarification. In: N. Mars, ed. Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing. IOS Press, Amsterdam: 25-32. Probably the first attempt to more formally describe the possible meanings beyond the 1993 Tom Gruber "specification of a conceptualization" (during the development of Ontolingua, funded by the DARPA Knowledge Sharing Effort/Initiative in the early 90s, which also defined KIF and KQML), which of course begs many questions. I think the discipline of ontological engineering owes a large debt to Guarino, who was one of the first to bring formal rigor to our engineering effort. He identifies 7 meanings and then discusses/differentiates them: 1. Ontology as a philosophical discipline 2. Ontology as a an informal conceptual system 3. Ontology as a formal semantic account 4. Ontology as a "specification of a conceptualization" 5. Ontology as a representation of a conceptual system via a logical theory 5.1 characterized by specific formal properties 5.2 characterized only by its specific purposes 6. Ontology as the vocabulary used by a logical theory 7. Ontology as a (meta-level) specification of a logical theory Leo Marwan Sabbouh wrote: >> >> http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/ontology_PIC.pdf >> >> My quest to define ontology (correctly) has led me to the above link. >> It is a write up by Barry Smith. >> >> Highly recommended! >> >> Marwan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-ontology-list@lists.mitre.org