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A Formal Ontology of Properties
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The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
The description logic handbook: theory, implementation, and applications
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Eventory -- An Event Based Media Repository
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Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives
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Reasoning Web
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A Core Ontology of Knowledge Acquisition
ESWC 2009 Heraklion Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference on The Semantic Web: Research and Applications
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A Reusable Ontology for Fluents in OWL
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Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
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COMM: designing a well-founded multimedia ontology for the web
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Ontology design patterns for semantic web content
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Semantic annotation of images and videos for multimedia analysis
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A core ontology on events for representing occurrences in the real world
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Integrated semantic-syntactic video modeling for search and browsing
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Is there beauty in ontologies?
Applied Ontology - Is there Beauty in Ontologies?
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Is there beauty in ontologies?
Applied Ontology - Is there Beauty in Ontologies?
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One of the key factors that hinders integration of distributed, heterogeneous information systems is the lack of a formal basis for modeling the complex, structured knowledge that is to be exchanged. To alleviate this situation, we present an approach based on core ontologies. Core ontologies are characterized by a high degree of axiomatization and formal precision. This is achieved by basing on a foundational ontology. In addition, core ontologies should follow a pattern-oriented design approach. By this, they are modular and extensible. Core ontologies allow for reusing the structured knowledge they define as well as integrating existing domain knowledge. The structured knowledge of the core ontologies is clearly separated from the domain-specific knowledge. Such core ontologies allow for both formally conceptualize their particular fields and to be flexibly combined to cover the needs of concrete, complex application domains. Over the last years, we have developed three independent core ontologies for events and objects, multimedia annotations and personal information management. In this paper, we present the simultaneous use and integration of our core ontologies at the example of a complex, distributed socio-technical system of emergency response. We describe our design approach for core ontologies and discuss the lessons learned in designing them. Finally, we elaborate on the beauty aspects of our core ontologies.