Ontology Treatment
Ontologies have a wide range of applications. These include horizontal ontologies and vertical ontologies. Horizontal ontologies are general in nature, such as space-time relationships. These are common ontologies that span multiple domains, are not applicable to any single vertical space, and provide a mechanism to organize and standardize information content. We've employed this type of ontology for years in the form of object models, hierarchies, taxonomies, and, in many cases, XML vocabularies.
Vertical ontologies, which also incorporate features from horizontal ontologies, are domain specific, such as natural languages for health care or financial services. Vertical ontologies not only define data in terms of semantics ...
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