What is an ontology?
There’s a good definition at the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=ontologyAn excerpt:”An explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them.
There’s a good definition at the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=ontology An excerpt: “An explicit formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them.