Ontologies: a contribution to the DL/DB debate
Nadine Cullot, Christine E. Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christelle Vangenot · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 2003
The move to global economy has emphasized the need for intelligent information sharing, and turned ontologies into a kernel issue for the next generation of semantic information services. The push towards an e#ective use of ontologies as a means to achieve semantic interoperability is, in our opinion, shifting the focus from purely taxonomic ontologies to more descriptive ontologies. These would namely provide agreed descriptions of the data structures representing the complex organization of objects and links of interest within the targeted domain.