2. What is
Ontology? An ontology is a formal description of
knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain
and the relationships that hold between them.
To enable such a description, we need to
formally specify components such as individuals
(instances of objects), classes, attributes and
relations as well as restrictions, rules and
axioms. As a result, ontologies do not only
introduce a sharable and reusable knowledge
representation but can also add new knowledge
about the domain.
8. Ontology building Blocks
Object Properties
In object properties we are concerned with describing how classes can
relate to each other based on their instances.
9. Ontology building Blocks
Data Properties
Data properties are just like object properties except their domains are
typed literals.
14. Why ontology
More easily accessible to automated
information processing
Enhancing or modifying a data model
after the fact can be easily accomplished
by modifying the concept.
To analyze domain knowledge
To enable reuse of domain knowledge