The Ontology Differs from Database Schema or Class Model

An ontology differs from a database schema or object-oriented class model in at least three important ways: objective, scope and content.  First, the objective of an ontology is to represent a conceptualization that is neutral in terms of technology, representation, and application. In other words, an  ontology is not the same as, say, a UML software design, although it could be used to guide software designs. Second, the scope of an ontology is all applications in the domain, not just one. And finally, an ontology contains knowledge specifications where the meaning of the concepts represented is explicitly specified and constrained and where the rules to infer further knowledge are explicitly defined.

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