The word ``ontology'' is used with different senses in different communities. The most radical difference is perhaps between the philosophical sense, which has of course a well-established tradition, and the computational sense, which emerged in the recent years in the knowledge engineering community, starting from an early informal definition of (computational) ontologies as ``explicit specifications of conceptualizations''. In this paper we shall revisit the previous attempts to clarify and formalize such original definition, providing a detailed account of the notions of conceptualization and explicit specification, while discussing at the same time the importance of shared explicit specifications.
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%A Guarino, Nicola
%A Oberle, Daniel
%A Staab, Steffen
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%C Berlin, Heidelberg
%D 2009
%E Staab, Steffen
%E Studer, Rudi
%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%K metadata ontologie
%P 1--17
%R 10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_0
%T What Is an Ontology?
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%X The word ``ontology'' is used with different senses in different communities. The most radical difference is perhaps between the philosophical sense, which has of course a well-established tradition, and the computational sense, which emerged in the recent years in the knowledge engineering community, starting from an early informal definition of (computational) ontologies as ``explicit specifications of conceptualizations''. In this paper we shall revisit the previous attempts to clarify and formalize such original definition, providing a detailed account of the notions of conceptualization and explicit specification, while discussing at the same time the importance of shared explicit specifications.
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