University of Konstanz
Database & Information Systems Group
Prof. Marc H. Scholl

Web Services and Semantic Web

Data modelling versus Ontology engineering

Abstract

Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is their relative independence of particular applications, i.e. an ontology consists of relatively generic knowledge that can be reused by different kinds of applications/tasks. The first part of this talk concerns some aspects that help to understand the differences and similarities between ontologies and data models. In the second part an ontology engineering framework that supports and favours the genericity of an ontology is presented.

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