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The paper defines a schema in which to describe the cornucopia applied ontologies. In contradistinction to the main trend in engineering meta-ontology the main ideas that support this schema are inspired by philosophy. Namely, we look at the domain of applied ontologies from the point of view of a certain metaphilosophical tradition. In a nutshell, we identify an applied ontology by means of i a description of its language, ii the employed methodology if any, iii a description of sources of ontological knowledge used in its development if any, iv a description of its domain, v the list of its categories if any, and vi a description of its use if any. The final result of our considerations is an engineering artefact, i.e., an OWL ontology. For the sake of validation we employ it to describe several applied ontologies of diverse kinds.