[Sigia-l] Ontologies

[John Fullerton]

There's an oft referenced paper - the title escapes me at the moment -
that 
has established Ontology (capital O) as the philosophical variety and 
ontology (lower case O) as the knowledge representation variety.

How about

Ontologies and Knowledge Bases
Towards a Terminological Clarification
Nicola Guarino

http://www.ladseb.pd.cnr.it/infor/Ontology/Papers/KBKS95.pdf 

or 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22capital+o%22+ontology+philosophy+%22knowledge+representation%22


Have a nice day
John Paul Fullerton
j-fullerton at tamu.edu