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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;= [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]]: A Collection of Definitions - What do people mean when they use the term &amp;quot;Ontology&amp;quot;  =&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[ConferenceCall_2006_01_12|&amp;quot;What is an Ontology?&amp;quot; by LeoObrst]] - Ontolog invited Speaker - ConferenceCall_2006_01_12 - note that this is [[ConferenceCall_2006_01_12|the adopted set of defintions by this community]]. [posted by [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.01.18] &lt;br /&gt;
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* &amp;quot;[http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html What is an Ontology?]&amp;quot; - &amp;quot;An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization....the objects, concepts, and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them.&amp;quot; ... &amp;quot;in the context of AI, we can describe the ontology of a program by defining a set of representational terms.&amp;quot; ... (from &amp;quot;A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications&amp;quot; Tom Gruber / 1993) [posted by [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.01.18] &lt;br /&gt;
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* wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology &amp;amp; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29 Ontology (computer science)] [posted by [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.01.18] &lt;br /&gt;
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* from [[MichaelUschold|Michael Uschold]] - 2 slides on &amp;quot;[http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work/OntologySummit2007/reference/KindsOfOntologies--MichaelUschold_20070118.ppt Kinds of Ontology]&amp;quot; - excerpt from [http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/submissions/slides/1.2_Uschold.pdf his keynote presentation] at the  [http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2006/schedule.html 9th International Prot&amp;amp;eacute;g&amp;amp;eacute; Conference] (July 2006, Stanford, CA.)  [posted by [[PeterYim|Peter P. Yim]] / 2007.01.18] &lt;br /&gt;
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== For Discussion: see - [[OntologySummit2007_FrameworksForConsideration]]  ==&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Other community inputs:''' &lt;br /&gt;
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* see '''[[OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response]]''' &lt;br /&gt;
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* input posted by [[DeborahMacPherson]] / 2007.02.01 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Survey/DeborahMacPherson#nid104P &lt;br /&gt;
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* input posted by posted by [[PaolaDiMaio]] / 2007.02.08 - see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007_Survey/DeborahMacPherson#nid104R &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Our theme for [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] is: &amp;quot;Ontology, Taxonomy, Folksonomy: Understanding the Distinctions&amp;quot;  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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''(ref: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontology-summit/2007-03/msg00028.html)'' &lt;br /&gt;
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As [[SteveRay|Steve Ray]] said it during our [[ConferenceCall_2007_01_18|18-Jan-2007 Ontology Summit launch meeting]], rather than to &amp;quot;bludgeon the world into using a single definition&amp;quot;, we want to &amp;quot;provide a means of identifying what kind of &amp;quot;ontology&amp;quot; '''''you''''' are talking about. &lt;br /&gt;
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At our organizing committee conference call, when the above &amp;quot;tag line&amp;quot; was adopted, [[OlivierBodenreider|Olivier Bodenreider]] drew a rather appropriate analogy by saying, &amp;quot;we want to be USGS, and not the UN.&amp;quot; ... Yes, conveners of [[OntologySummit2007|Ontology Summit 2007]] should look at themselves as cartographers, not peace keepers! &lt;br /&gt;
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We don't plan to go around telling people how they should use the term &amp;quot;ontology&amp;quot;. Instead, we are planning to solicit input from people who could represent perspectives of different constituencies that are involved in developing or facilitating the evolution of &amp;quot;ontologies&amp;quot; and structures that help model semantics. We want these people (experts, practitioners and informed layman alike) to provide input from the perspectives of their constituencies. &lt;br /&gt;
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We have, below, an incomplete list of the &amp;quot;constituencies&amp;quot; that may be pertinent. Please feel free to make the addition to the list if you notice that a certain community (or sub-community) is conspicuously missing. &lt;br /&gt;
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== Various Communities (&amp;quot;constituencies&amp;quot;) and the way they define their &amp;quot;ontology&amp;quot; or ontology-related vocabulary  ==&lt;br /&gt;
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List of communities first enumerated at [http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologySummit2007/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_01_30#nidSZQ our 2007.01.30 organizing committee meeting] &lt;br /&gt;
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... ''(we'll be soliciting input on key ontology-related vocabulary, glossary and artifacts from the perspective of the various constituencies in a survey.)'' &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Formal ontology communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* upper ontology community &lt;br /&gt;
* domain ontology community &lt;br /&gt;
* AI R&amp;amp;D communities &lt;br /&gt;
* Logic Model vs. Probabilistic Model &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Semantic Web communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* RDF community &lt;br /&gt;
* OWL-DL (discription logic) community &lt;br /&gt;
* OWL full community &lt;br /&gt;
* Semantic Web Rules community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Linguistic communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Concept Map community  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Topic Map &amp;amp; Subject Map communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== SEARCH communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* statistical search community &lt;br /&gt;
* semantic search community &lt;br /&gt;
* [[UIMA]] community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web 2.0] communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* web-based semantic network communities &lt;br /&gt;
* folksonomy / social networking / social bookmarking community &lt;br /&gt;
* [[FOAF]] community &lt;br /&gt;
* wiki &amp;amp; semantic-wiki community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Thesauri community  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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=== Taxonomy communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* Classification system communities &lt;br /&gt;
* Indexing system communities &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Metadata communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* Dublin Core community &lt;br /&gt;
* [[SKOS]] community &lt;br /&gt;
* Librarians community &lt;br /&gt;
* Knowledge Management (KM) communities &lt;br /&gt;
* ISO-11179 community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== XML communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* OASIS community &lt;br /&gt;
* Microformats / [[GRDDL]] community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Applications Development, Software Engineering and Information Model communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* software engineering / developers / programmers community &lt;br /&gt;
* database community &lt;br /&gt;
* [[UML]] community &lt;br /&gt;
* legacy system re-engineering communities &lt;br /&gt;
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=== System Architecture Communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* System architecture community &lt;br /&gt;
* enterprise architecture community &lt;br /&gt;
* Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Biomedical communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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* bioinformatics community &lt;br /&gt;
* medical informatics community &lt;br /&gt;
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=== Standards Development communities  ===&lt;br /&gt;
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== Community Input: see - [[OntologySummit2007_Survey/Response]]  ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:OntologySummit]]    [[Category:OntologySummit2007]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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