Ontologies and Urban Databases 1 – Definitions of Ontologies

Ontologies and Urban Databases

• 1 – Definitions of Ontologies

• 2 – Necessity of Ontologies for Urban Applications

• 3 – Why different!

• 4 – Towards Ontologies of Space

• 5 – My own vision of TOWNTOLOGY project

1 – Definition of Ontologies

• O = Being ;  = discourse

• Def1: theory of objects and of their relations

• Def2: theory concerning entities, and especially entities existing in languages

• Def3: An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization (Gruber)

Definition

• Ontology (capital “o”):

• a philosophical discipline.

• An ontology (lowercase “o”):

• a specific artifact designed with the purpose of expressing the intended meaning of a vocabulary

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