9 March 2020

Informal To Formal Ontology Terminology

  • building a model of some subject matter -> building an ontology
  • things -> individuals
  • kinds of things -> classes
  • generalizations/specializations -> subClassOf
  • some kind of thing -> instance or member of class
  • literal is of a certain kind -> has a datatype
  • relationships between things -> object properties
  • attributes of things -> data properties
  • kinds of literals -> datatypes
  • saying something -> asserting a triple
  • drawing conclusions -> inference