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1 Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating YourFirst OntologyNatalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinnessStanford University, Stanford, CA, and Why develop an Ontology ?In recent years the Development of ontologies explicit formal specifications of the terms inthe domain and relations among them (Gruber 1993) has been moving from the realm ofArtificial-Intelligence laboratories to the desktops of domain experts. Ontologies havebecome common on the World-Wide Web. The ontologies on the Web range from largetaxonomies categorizing Web sites (such as on Yahoo!) to categorizations of products forsale and their features (such as on ). The WWW Consortium (W3C) isdeveloping the Resource Description Framework (Brickley and Guha 1999), a language forencoding knowledge on Web pages to make it understandable to electronic agents searchingfor information.
An ontology together with a set of individual instances of classes constitutes a knowledge base. In reality, there is a fine line where the ontology ends and the knowledge base begins. Classes are the focus of most ontologies. Classes describe concepts in the domain. For example, a class of wines represents all wines.
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