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What are Ontologies ?

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What are Ontologies ?

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These represent formal descriptions of terms, concepts, behaviour etc. Creating and using useful ontologies is an extremely challenging task for those exchanging and re-using data. In some cases – such as or it is likely that we can identify existing standards (ISO, IEEE, IETF, etc.) which encapsulate what we wish to describe and provide enough power to do it precisely. If the concepts are independent of human language then a global consensus may be possible, as the task is primarily to alert the electronic community to adopt a common approach. In many cases more than one ontology may be in common use for a particular concept. In an ideal case the curators of the ontologies will have provided equivalences between different ontologies. Thus ISO standards often reference each other or other standards bodies. For an ontology to be valuable it must be widely used and provided by a curatorial process, which is widely accepted. An example is the CIF dictionaries from the Inter