Modern structured analysis
An Ontological Model of an Information System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Computing: a human activity
Object-oriented modeling and design
Object-oriented modeling and design
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: the role of formal ontology in the information technology
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
Ontology: its transformation from philosophy to information systems
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
IEEE Intelligent Systems
OIL: An Ontology Infrastructure for the Semantic Web
IEEE Intelligent Systems
EKAW '02 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL
DCW '02 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
The added value of task and ontology-based markup for information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Bioinformatics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
Building ontological relationships: A new approach
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Approach and tool to evolve ontology and maintain its coherence
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
A four stage approach for ontology-based health information system design
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Ontology goes postmodern in ICT
SAICSIT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Research Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists
An emergent culture model for discerning tag semantics in folksonomies
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Towards electronic health record support for collaborative processes
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care
Interoperable support for collaborative, mobile, and accessible health care
Information Systems Frontiers
Conceptual syntagmatic associations in user tagging
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
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In philosophy, Ontology is the basic description of things in the world. In information science, an ontology refers to an engineering artifact, constituted by a specific vocabulary used to describe a certain reality. Ontologies have been proposed for validating both conceptual models and conceptual schemas; however, these roles are quite dissimilar. In this article, we show that ontologies can be better understood if we classify the different uses of the term as it appears in the literature. First, we explain Ontology (upper case O) as used in Philosophy. Then, we propose a differentiation between ontologies of information systems and ontologies for information systems. All three concepts have an important role in information science. We clarify the different meanings and uses of Ontology and ontologies through a comparison of research by Wand and Weber and by Guarino in ontology-driven information systems. The contributions of this article are twofold: (a) It provides a better understanding of what ontologies are, and (b) it explains the double role of ontologies in information science research. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.