Tag Archives: ontology

From the ontological-hysterical archives

08-11-17 – 11:55:pm

WiReD 4.05 (May ’96), “Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe),” on Yahoo[!]:
Starting with the ad hoc categories she inherited from Yang and Filo, Srinivasan began slowly and deliberately steering Yahoo!’s ontology toward completeness. Mainly, it’s been a matter of adding new categories and reorganizing hierarchies as the Web evolves from containing only specialized, technical information [...]

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Monetary ontology

08-05-23 – 09:05:am

“Ontology” as such is supposed to incorporate really disparate things, but, still, this is a really curious list—a library of “OWL ontologies,” where the acronym OWL, according to the dyslexics at the World Wide Consortium Web (W2CW, a/k/a, the W3C), stands for “Web Ontology Language.” It’s easy to look at a list like that and [...]

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