Hello All, Hello Jenny,
I've this to be a useful discussion of Ontologies and the semantic
web: http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
If it helps anyone: ontology = taxonomy + inference rules (which
is explained futher in the article).
Phil.
Jenny Slater wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As noted in the minutes of the meeting on 30 November, I have written up
> the minutes of the small group discussion of the guide to metadata below.
>
> At one point the difference between a taxonomy, a vocabulary and an
> ontology was questioned, and the issue was never definitively resolved. I
> have come accross the following interesting article, which has definitions
> for ontology and taxonomy:
>
> http://www.transformmag.com/db_area/archs/2001/12/tfm0112f1.shtml
>
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