Ontology of Astronomical Object Types Use Cases Version 1.1
S. Derrière, A. Preite‐Martinez, A Bauder Richard, Laurent Cambrésy, P. Padovani · 2010
The Semantic Web and ontologies are emerging technologies which enable advanced knowledge management and sharing. Their application to Astronomy can offer new ways of sharing information between astronomers, but also between machines or software components and allow inference engines to perform reasoning on an astronomical knowledge base. This document presents several use-cases exploiting an ontology of astronomical object types. This strongly constrained ontology allows formal reasoning including similarity measurements, concept classification and consistency checking.