Upper and Lightweight Ontologies, What's the Difference?
Channel: Ashleigh Faith
Date: 2020-10-15

Not as well-known, but just as important to understand, is the difference between an upper ontology and a lightweight ontology. Not often tagged as such, knowing what you are looking at "in the wild," and what each is best suited for, will help you along the way.

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Great infographic on this topic:
https://www.openlinksw.com/data/turtle/general/knowledge-graph-manifestation-turtle-jsonld.html

Schema: 
Upper ontology: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/SCHEMA/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2FMovie
Lightweight ontology: https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/DOID/?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FDOID_11044#mappings

Research: MODELING A SUPPLY CHAIN REFERENCE ONTOLOGY BASED ON A TOP-LEVEL
ONTOLOGY: https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=928051