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Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology (Paperback)
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Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples
derived particularly from biomedicine, covering theoretical
components, design practices, and practical applications. In the
era of "big data," science is increasingly information driven, and
the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive
amounts of data has given rise to such new disciplinary fields as
biomedical informatics. Applied ontology offers a strategy for the
organization of scientific information in computer-tractable form,
drawing on concepts not only from computer and information science
but also from linguistics, logic, and philosophy. This book
provides an introduction to the field of applied ontology that is
of particular relevance to biomedicine, covering theoretical
components of ontologies, best practices for ontology design, and
examples of biomedical ontologies in use. After defining an
ontology as a representation of the types of entities in a given
domain, the book distinguishes between different kinds of
ontologies and taxonomies, and shows how applied ontology draws on
more traditional ideas from metaphysics. It presents the core
features of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), now used by over one
hundred ontology projects around the world, and offers examples of
domain ontologies that utilize BFO. The book also describes Web
Ontology Language (OWL), a common framework for Semantic Web
technologies. Throughout, the book provides concrete
recommendations for the design and construction of domain
ontologies.
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