From Ontology to Data

• Reference ontology (development time)

  • establishes consensus about meaning of terms

• Application ontology (development time)

  • Focuses on a particular application
  • limited by relevance choices related to a certain application

• Conceptual model (run time)

  • implements an ontology (Tbox)
  • Describes constraints between terms to be checked at run time (terminological services)
  • limited by expressive power of implementation medium

• Database (Abox) (run time)

  • Describes a specific (epistemic) state of affairs

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version

This slide not in handouts