Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating YourFirst Ontology/本体论摘录(1)

1.Why develop an ontology?

An ontology defines a common vocabulary for researchers who need to share information in

a domain. It includes machine-interpretable definitions of basic concepts in the domain and

relations among them.

本体为需要共享信息的研究人员定义了通用词汇表 一个域。 它包括领域中基本概念的机器可解释定义和 他们之间的关系。

Why would someone want to develop an ontology? Some of the reasons are:

        To share common understanding of the structure of information among people or

        software agents

        To enable reuse of domain knowledge

        To make domain assumptions explicit

        To separate domain knowledge from the operational knowledge

        To analyze domain knowledge

Sharing common understanding of the structure of information among people or software

agents is one of the more common goals in developing ontologies .

在人或软件之间共享对信息结构的共同理解是开发本体的更常见目标之一。

Enabling reuse of domain knowledge was one of the driving forces behind recent surge in

ontology research.

实现领域知识的重用是最近激增的驱动力之一 本体研究。

Making explicit domain assumptions underlying an implementation makes it possible to

change these assumptions easily if our knowledge about the domain changes.

实现的基础上进行明确的域假设，这样的话，如果我们对领域的了解发生变化，就可以轻松改变这些假设。

Separating the domain knowledge from the operational knowledge is another common use

of ontologies.

将领域知识与操作知识分离是另一个常见用途的本体。

Analyzing domain knowledge is possible once a declarative specification of the terms is
available.

一旦术语的声明性说明是可能的，分析领域知识是可能的。

Often an ontology of the domain is not a goal in itself. Developing an ontology is akin to
defining a set of data and their structure for other programs to use.

通常，领域的本体本身并不是目标。 开发本体类似于 定义一组数据及其结构供其他程序使用。