In the early 2000s, ontology struck a chord with computer scientists. Veterans like Tim Berners-Lee started advocatingfor what they called linked data. The idea is that data shoul… See more

The common ground between ontology in philosophy and computer scienceis that it’s an attempt to describe everything that is — entities, ideas, events — and all the relations be… See more

There are many other ways to organize your data, including vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, topic maps, logical models and relational databases. These come with t… See more

Let’s say you have a data set of contracts. If you knew nothing about ontology, you might put all data points about your contracts in a table. This table might contain col… See more