What’s Special About Ontologies?

• Don’t change during problem solving

  • Are particularly suited for “compiling” into tools

• Intended to support multiple tasks and methods

• Emphasis on properties that hold in all situations

• Emphasis on classes rather than individuals

• Need to satisfy a community of use

  • Emphasis on collaborative development
  • Emphasis on translation to multiple logical formalisms

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