[Sigia-l] Question about the use of the term 'ontology'

[Peter Van Dijck]

Fun. Here's mine (simplified), and it's faceted ;)

Facet: overall structure
- list
- tree
- web

Facet: detailed structure (relationships)
- polyhierarchy
- synonym
- ...

Facet: usage
- search
- browse
- abstract organization

Facet: origin
- Library science
- Computer science
-- semantic web community
- Artificial intelligence community

mm... gotta think this through.

PeterV

> I think I can summarize this with a taxonomy as follows:
> 
>   subject-based classification
>     controlled vocabulary
>     taxonomy
>       thesaurus
>     faceted classification
>     ontology (in an IA context, anyway)
>       topic map
> 
> So it may be useful to say that what you need is a "subject-based
> classification", and that the approach you propose is a "topic map".
> 
> Or maybe not. :-)
> 

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