Wire Optional Web Site Main Page Ontology Ontology. This word will become rather fashionable in the coming months. For us, ontologies are the most useful when it is used for identification purposes. This perhaps is not one of the intended uses of ontologies.
Ontology is defined in various ways by different people.
Here, I define it as the representation of the relationship between entities we have previously classified. Therefore I don't care how concepts are defined or by who. The meanings of the entities are not important in the scheme of thing. For instance, if we want to write an ontology about office furniture, the meaning of the word 'chair' is irelevant. Its role, relative to the other kinds of office furniture, is.