Information Science

Ontology

Definition

A formal, machine-readable model of a domain: its classes of things, their properties, the relationships between them and the rules (axioms) that constrain how they combine, expressed in a language such as OWL.

How we use the term

An ontology includes a vocabulary and a hierarchy and adds logic that a reasoner can apply.

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Wikidata
HW-CON-041
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