Why is ontology important in computing?
Ontology shows enormous potential in making software more efficient, adaptive, and intelligent. It is recognized as one of the areas which will bring the next breakthrough in software development. The idea of ontology has been welcomed by visionaries and early adopters. For example, ontology has been used in medical informatics studies, and the community produced popular tools such as Protg ontology editor. However, it has failed to appeal to the majority users of the mainstream, at least until recently. It is said that the idea was too arcane for ordinary folks to understand. There is no standard way to do things with ontology, but so many different proprietary ways. There were not enough tools for programming ontologies and managing various aspects of the life cycle of ontologies. Recently, however, the semantic Web initiative lead by W3C has changed the ontology landscape completely. Through the initiative, researchers and developers join forces to provide standard semantics markup
