Time Is Ripe To Embrace the Scientific Approach in Applied Ontology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
In the 1990s, there has been a rich discussion about how to best understand the term ontology in information science in particular concerning the fact that ontological artifacts should be built and motivated by philosophical principles as defended by Guarino and Giaretta (1995). Today we know that that effort failed to impact the community, as it is widespread habit to use the term ontology to indicate any logical theory that: (a) includes a taxonomy, and (b) is written in a computational (and often decidable) language, such as OWL, the Web Ontology Language (Hitzler et al., 2012). The philosophical view behind the ontology and its actual content have lost centrality except in areas like formal ontology and venues like the FOIS conference series1 and the Applied Ontology journal.
Repository Citation
Borgo, S.,
Hitzler, P.,
& Shimizu, C.
(2020). Time Is Ripe To Embrace the Scientific Approach in Applied Ontology. Applied Ontology, 15 (3), 245-249.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cse/746
DOI
10.3233/AO-200237
