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Ontologies


The Role of Ontologies in Teaching and Learning by Ruth Wilson is a white paper on the topic.
Ontologies are currently a buzzword in many communities, hailed as a mechanism for making better use of the Web. They offer a shared definition of a domain that can be understood by computers, enabling them to complete more meaningful tasks. Although ontologies of different descriptions have been in development and use for some time, it is their potential as a key technology in the Semantic Web which is responsible for the current wave of interest. Communities have different expectations of the Semantic Web and how it will be realised, but it is generally believed that ontologies will play a major role.

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This Technology and Standards Watch report discusses ontologies and their role in the Semantic Web, with a special focus on their implications for teaching and learning.

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- Lc's Linked Data Service
Exciting news from LC. We are experimenting with a new feature of LC's Linked Data Service designed to more easily make use of the available data by providing a simple way to import the data into OWL ontologies, especially via OWL editors such as...

- Ontologies And The Web
Martinez Usero, Jose Angel and Beltran Orenes, Maria Pilar (2005) Ontologies in the context of knowledge organization and interoperability in e-government services. In Proceedings IRFD World Forum on Information Society 2005, Tunis (Tunisia).A philosophical...

- Ontologies And The Semantic Web
Order from Chaos by Natalya Noy appears in ACM Queue v. 3, no. 8 - October 2005.Just as anyone can put up his or her own page on the Web and anyone can point to it (and say either good or bad things about it), on the Semantic Web anyone can post an ontology,...

- Semantic Web
The latest issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, is devoted to the Semantic Web. Articles include:The Semantic Web: More than a Vision by Jane GreenbergAn Overview of W3C Semantic Web Activity by Eric Miller...

- Ontologies
The latest issue of Information Research has the article "A literature-based approach to annotation and browsing of Web resources" by Miguel A. Sicilia, Elena Garcia, Ignacio Aedo, and Paloma Diaz.The emerging Semantic Web technologies critically depend...



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