Skip to content

ontology disambiguation. Technically the same as schema, different connotations#2

Open
kilojoules wants to merge 2 commits into
IEA-Task-43:mainfrom
kilojoules:patch-1
Open

ontology disambiguation. Technically the same as schema, different connotations#2
kilojoules wants to merge 2 commits into
IEA-Task-43:mainfrom
kilojoules:patch-1

Conversation

@kilojoules

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

No description provided.

@kilojoules kilojoules changed the title ontology disambiguation. Technically the same as syntax, different connotations ontology disambiguation. Technically the same as schema, different connotations Dec 15, 2022
@kilojoules

kilojoules commented Dec 15, 2022

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

taken from https://www.w3.org/wiki/SchemaVsOntology

Comment thread terms/ontology.md
Comment on lines +42 to +46
An ontology is technically equivalent to a schema. Both are formal specifications of some conceptualisation or abstract world model.

From its usage in the Semantic Web community and the broader knowledge-based systems community, the term 'schema' is used to refer to simple conceptualisations, as might be written using less expressive knowledge representation languages such as RDF Schema (so making explicit the relationship between ontologies and database schemas). Conversely, the term 'ontology' is taken to describe more complex models, written in more expressive languages (OWL, DAML+OIL, Ontolingua, KIF, etc).

There is a school of thought that considers ontologies to contain rule-based knowledge in addition to a relational characterisation, but this is far less prevalent in the SW community than elsewhere.

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

You say in a comment this is taken from https://www.w3.org/wiki/SchemaVsOntology but haven't referred to that anywhere - please include a hyperlink to this source reference.

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I'm not sure what the best way to link this is. Should I put all the text in quotes?

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

2 participants