The word “ontology” comes from the Greek ontos, for “being,” and logos, for “word.” In philosophy, it refers to the subject of existence, i.e., the study of being as such. More precisely, it is the study of the categories of things that exist or may exist in some domain (Sowa 2000). A domain ontology explains the types of things in that domain.
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Gaševic, D., Djuric, D., Devedžic, V. (2009). Ontologies. In: Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00282-3_2
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