TY  - BOOK
AU  - Munn,Katherine
AU  - Smith,Barry
TI  - Applied ontology: an introduction 
T2  - Metaphysical research
SN  - 9783110324860
AV  - BD311 .A87 2008
U1  - 111 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Frankfurt, Piscataway, NJ
PB  - Ontos Verlag, [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Bioinformatics
KW  - Ontologies (Information retrieval)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ontologie (filosofie)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ontologie
KW  - Wissensverarbeitung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 25, 2013); Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index; Introduction; What is ontology for?; Katherine Munn --; Bioinformatics and philosophy; Barry Smith and Bert Klagges --; What is formal ontology; Boris Hennig --; A primer on knowledge management and ontological engineering; Pierre Grenon --; New desiderata for biomedical terminologies; Barry Smith --; The benefits of realism: A Realist Logic with Applications; Barry Smith --; A theory of granular partitions; Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith --; Classifications; Ludger Jansen --; Categories: The Top-Level Ontology; Ludger Jansen --; The classification of living beings; Peter Heuer and Boris Hennig --; Ontological relations; Ulf Schwarz and Barry Smith --; Four kinds of "Is_A" relation; Ingvar Johansson --; Occurrents; Boris Hennig --; Bioinformatics and biological reality; Ingvar Johansson; Open Access
N2  - Ontology is the philosophical discipline which aims to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related together. This is exactly what information scientists aim for in creating structured, automated representations, called 'ontologies, ' for managing information in fields such as science, government, industry, and healthcare. Currently, these systems are designed in a variety of different ways, so they cannot share data with one another. They are often idiosyncratically structured, accessible only to those who created them, and unable to serve
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