Ontologies

Books

Fensel, Dieter. Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001. Brief but informative.

Magazine and Web Articles

Economic Classification Policy Committee. 8-Feb-93. Aggregation Structures and Hierarchies Issues. Paper No. 2. Web article: http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics/issues2. Motivation for shifting from SIC to NAICS codes.

Gruber, Tom. 9-Oct-01. What Is an Ontology? Web article: http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.htm. Classic article on ontologies.

Heflin, Jeff. Fall 2001. The Semantic Web Syllabus. Web article: http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/courses/se-fall01/.

Heflin, Jeff. 4-Oct-00. General Ontology (Draft). Web article: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/onts/commerce1.0.html. SHOE.

Heflin, Jeff. 28-Apr-00. Commerce Ontology (Draft). Web article: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projets/plus/SHOE/onts/commerce1.0.html. SHOE.

Hever, Boo. 5-Oct-02. Testing Vocabulary. Web article: http://www.forumeducation.net/servelet/pages/vi/mat/vocarticle.htm.

Hillmann, Diane. 14-Jun-01. Using Dublin Core. Web article: http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/. SHOE.

Jeflin, Jeff, et al. 7-Mar-02. Requirements for a Web Ontology Language. Web article: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webont-reg-20020307/.

Kingston, John. 1-Sep-02. Ontologies, Multi-Perspective Modeling and Knowledge Auditing Information Research Report. Web article: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/publications/report/0053.html.

Lagoze, Carl. 1-Jan-01. Keeping Dublin Core Simple. D-Lib Magazine 7(1), Jan 2001. Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/lagoze/01lagoze.html. Dublin Core is a widely used ontology for authored documents.

Luke, Sean. 6-Dec-01. Adding Semantic Knowledge to an HTML Page Using SHOE. Web article: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/html-pages.html. SHOE is an early ontology language.

McGuinness, Deborah L. 14-18-Aug-01. Conceptual Modeling for Distributed Ontology Environments. Web article: http://www.ontology.org/main/papers/iccs-dlm.html.

Noy, Natalya F., McGuinness, Deborah L. 3-Jul-02. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. Web article: http://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development_ontology101-noy-mcguiness.html.

Phytila, Chris. 2-Jul-03. SUMO Ontology Language. Web article: http://onotology.teknowledge.com/.

Poli, Roberto. 5-Jul-03. Proposals about the Structure of Ontology. Web article: http://www.formalontology.it/section_5.htm.

Ruedinger, Klein. 3-Dec-01. Daimler Chrysler Use Cases. Web article: http://list.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2001Dec/002.htm.

Taxonomy and Content Classification. Verity Web site: http://www.verity.com.

How Verity sets up and uses taxonomies to interpret unstructured data. Trippe, Bill. 1-Aug-01. Taxonomies and Topic Maps: Categorization Steps Forward. Econtent Web site: http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=1070&CategoryID=21. Topic maps are a way of associating content with topics.

Wolff, Christian. 8-Dec-01. What Is Ontology? Ontologia sue Philosophia Prima. Web article: http://www.formalontology.it/section_4.htm. Good definition.

9-Dec-01. Some Ongoing KBS/Ontology Projects and Groups. Web article: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mfkb/related.html.

5-Oct-02. Does Size Matter? Web article: http://216.239.53.100/search?q+cache:vFfosHVsMzUC:www.english.uiuc.edu/baron/302/…

24-Dec-02. Basics: Classification, Nomenclature, and Key Making. Web article: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfplab/lab1a.htm.

18-Aug-02. Participants and Their Position Papers/Talks. Web page: http://Isdis.cs.uga.edu/SemNSF/SemWebWorkshopParticipants.htm.

13-Jun-01. Markup Languages and Ontologies. Web page: http://www.semanticweb.org/knowmarkup.html.

12-Feb-03. DCMI Type Vocabulary. Web page: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/.

23-Nov-02. Model-Theoretic Semantics. Web page: http://www.xrefer.com/entry/572261.

23-Nov-02. Truth Conditions. Web page: http://www.xrefer.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=573583.

9-Dec-01. TOVE Ontologies. Web page: http://www.eil.utoronto.ca/tove/toveont.html.

21-Dec-01. Ontologies by Keyword. Web article: http://www.daml.org/ontologies/keyword.html.

15-Jun-02. About the TGN. Web article: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/about.html.

25-Nov-02. Plant and Animal Species Evolution Cruncher. Chapter 11. Web article: http://evolution-facts.org/c11.htm. One of many sources for species and genus examples.

4-Nov-02. Inxight Declared "Winner" among Categorization, Taxonomy Generation and Data Visualization Companies by the 451. Insight Press Releases. Web article: http://inxight.com/news/021104_the451.html. Hyperbolic trees and unstructured data interpretation.

5-Oct-02. Measuring the Size of Your Vocabulary. Vocabulary Testing. Web article: http://www.geocities.com/rnseitz/Vocabulary_Testing.html. Source of vocabulary size statistics.

7-Feb-99. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description. Web article: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces. Dublin Core.

7-Nov-00. Dublin Core Qualifiers. Web article: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-qualifiers. Dublin Core.

6-Dec-01. SHOE Base Ontology. Web article: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/onts/base1.0.html. SHOE.

2-Jul-99. Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, Version 1.1: Reference Description. Web article: http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. SHOE.

March-98. The Need for Shared Ontology. Web article: http://www.ontology.org. Sets up the need for shared meaning as a basis for B2B eCommerce.

9-Oct-01. Taxonomy of Life. Web article: http://www.bartleby.com/61/charts/T00654000.html. One version of the biologic taxonomy.

5-Oct-02. How Many Words? World Wide Words. Web article: http://www.quinion.com/words/articles/howmany.htm. Another take on how many words have been made up.